UK telehealth firm gains EU recognition

The Health-eLife project, which uses doc@HOME technology from UK-based telehealth services firm Docobo, has been awarded ‘project of the month’ status
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Tolven release open source systems for testing

American software developers, the Tolven Institute, have launched a new website to release new open source software to its members.
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SMS alerts for prescriptions launched

Irish pharmaceutical software company, Systems Solutions Limited, has incorporated SMS text messages, e-mails and direct mail functionality into its QicScript
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500 EMIS practices to get electronic record transfers

NHS Connecting for Health is to roll out GP2GP record transfer to another 500 practices by the end of March
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No mistake

Misspelt electronic records can have serious effects. Daloni Carlisle looks at the results of a three-year initiative to test the
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Extra payments ‘not discussed in detail’ says iSoft

iSoft has said contract payments were ‘not discussed in detail’ with the government before further news of its precarious finances broke last
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Review says e-SAP fragmented and lacks standards

A Connecting for Health review of implementations of the electronic single assessment process (e-SAP) has revealed a lack of integration
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BT appoints NHS veteran as London CEO

Paul White, chief executive of Barts and the London NHS Trust is to join BT as chief executive of its
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Tower Hamlets goes live with e-SAP

Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has become the first London trust to implement new electronic Single Assessment Process (e-SAP) software,
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GP wins award for patient record access initiative

Dr Amir Hannan has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group
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