Prescribing

20 July 2007

EMIS goes national with digital TV appointment booking

Primary care IT supplier EMIS has extended its online appointment booking service so that patients can now book GP surgery

26 June 2007

East Cheshire chooses CliniSys for chemo prescribing

East Cheshire NHS Trust has awarded a chemotherapy prescribing solution contract to CliniSys Oncology. CliniSys will deploy its ChemoCare solution

18 June 2007

Fulsome praise for departing CfH boss

The news that Richard Granger is to leave Connecting for Health and the helm of the NHS IT Programme later

30 May 2007

New deal to deploy data mining tool

Quicksilva Software Solutions has secured a deal with life sciences specialists Applied InSilico to deploy their artificial intelligence-based data mining

18 May 2007

NAO says information vital to cutting prescribing costs

A National Audit Office study has found that the NHS could save £200m a year by GPs prescribing drugs fewer

17 May 2007

Safety now number one priority for CfH

Professor Michael Thick, the chief clinical officer for Connecting for Health, explains how the agency has made patient safety its

24 April 2007

Diabetes prescribing decision support tool launched

A new computerised prescribing decision support tool that will provide healthcare professionals with patient-specific, evidence-based support in the management of

23 April 2007

Nottingham buys CliniSys chemo prescribing solution

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen the CliniSys Oncology ChemoCare chemotherapy prescribing solution for three of its hospital sites,

11 April 2007

Voicemails prompt patients to pick up medicine

A message system that enables pharmacists to leave an automatically-generated voicemail for patients whose prescriptions are ready for collection is to be offered

27 March 2007