Pharmacy

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20 September 2006

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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21 August 2006

NI to link barcodes on prescriptions to EPRs

The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has announced it has signed a £6.8m contract
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15 August 2006

Talking pill bottles read out their own labels

Pharmacies in Northern California have started to stock talking prescription bottles which aim to help elderly or partially sighted patients
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7 August 2006

Cegedim gets authorisation to deploy for EPS

Cegedim Rx has received authorisation from NHS Connecting for Health to deploy its pharmacy management system Nexphase for use with
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4 August 2006

NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project

Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record
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27 July 2006

Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside

Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new
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27 July 2006

QicSCRIPT gets drug barcode scanning

System Solutions have announced that they have released a new version of their QicSCRIPT patient medication record software that allows
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25 July 2006

EPS underspend due to slower rollout

Funding to pay pharmacists for using the electronic prescriptions service was underspent by more than 50% in the last financial
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23 June 2006

Less than 1.5% of electronic prescriptions seamless

E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic prescriptions issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just under 30,000 have
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13 June 2006

InPS and TPP get go-ahead on electronic prescriptions

Two of the major GP system suppliers have been given the go-ahead to roll-out their electronic prescription service (EPS) software
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