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Pharma firms offered internet chat tracking

A service which tracks consumer chat about medicines on the internet is being offered to pharmaceutical companies and drug regulators
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Doctors.net.uk helps put docs in the dock

Doctors.net.uk, the online medical network of UK doctors, has teamed up with Capita Health Solutions (CHS) to enable doctors to
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National Scottish NHS IT procurement begins

 The National Health Service for Scotland has begun re-tendering exercise for end-to-end delivery of its principal IT services, in a
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Minister launches patient ‘guarantee’ on records

The government has published a series of commitments in the form of a guarantee on how nationally held electronic health
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The virtual patient

Dr Richard Fitton, GP and member of the Care Record Development Board, predicts a future in which patients have control
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Choose and Book may get mobile txt reminders

Plans are being drawn up to introduce a national automatic appointment reminder service to cut missed appointments by patients, a
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Data quality vital to electronic transfer of prescriptions

Keighley, the first pilot site for electronic transfer of prescriptions (ETP), has found that before new national systems can be
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Groundhog Day

Connecting for Health's new strategy to engage with professional associations seems strangely familiar, reports E-Health Insider from the Clinical Information
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Crunch time

How will the general election affect NHS IT? E-Health Insider takes a comprehensive look at what each party has to
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E-Health Innovation awards honour primary care

Primary care IT developments were well represented among the winners of the first E-Health Innovation Awards 2005. Projects that help
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