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27 December 2006

i-Contact aims to combat missed appointments

A new web-based communications engine called i-Contact has been developed to help GPs combat the problem of missed appointments. The
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21 December 2006

2006 – a curate’s egg for Connecting for Health

E-Health Insider cuts through the statistics to offer a snapshot of progress on ongoing efforts to digitise the NHS in
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21 December 2006

ScriptSwitch partner with First DataBank on Multilex

A new partnership will enable the implementation of First Data Bank’s Multilex Drug Datafile into ScriptSwitch’s real-time prescribing decision support
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20 December 2006

Rewiring Long Term Care

As major work starts on 'demonstrators' for e-enabled long term care, Colin Jervis analyses the challenge.
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20 December 2006

Bury PCT starts using GP2GP to transfer records

Bury PCT has become the latest PCT using INPS Vision to begin using electronic GP2GP record transfers of patient records.
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19 December 2006

BT investigates slow connections for GPs

N3 provider BT has been investigating ways in which it might improve its service for GP practices using the EMIS
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19 December 2006

Patients to be able to veto spine uploads

Health minister Lord Warner yesterday announced a significant u-turn in government policy on patient’s details being automatically loaded onto the
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19 December 2006

Worskshops aim to boost C+B uptake

The Department of Health is to hold a workshop in every strategic health authority in England in an attempt to
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18 December 2006

Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR

 The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although
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18 December 2006

Ministerial review to back summary care records

The government is today expected to announce that it will press ahead with plans to begin trials of a national
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