Fiona Barr - Digital Health

13 May 2010

ContactPoint to be scrapped

The controversial children’s database ContactPoint is to be scrapped by the new government, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have revealed.

13 May 2010

PCTI tests Docman on the iPad

Dr Neil Paul using Docman on iPad (Click the image to enlarge) Healthcare IT supplier PCTI has tested its

12 May 2010

EMIS wins Glasgow GPASS replacement

EMIS has announced it has won a contract worth £1m in annual revenue to supply its software to 243 GP

12 May 2010

Payments linked to clinical quality

Removing financial incentives for clinical quality can lead to a drop in performance, a study has found.

11 May 2010

Lessons learnt from West Yorkshire

NHS Direct has published its lessons learned from the start-up of the West Yorkshire Urgent Care Service, the out-of-hours service

11 May 2010

Phone consultation fears ‘unfounded’

Concerns that telephone consultations are less effective than face-to-face consultations may be mostly unfounded, according to an analysis in Scotland.

10 May 2010

Trafford gets integrated child system

Trafford Council has deployed Liquidlogic’s Protocol Integrated Children’s System to make it compliant with government requirements on integrated children’s systems.

7 May 2010