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BNF for mobile devices launched

Britain’s best-known medicines guide, the British National Formulary, is now available especially configured to be used on a range of
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Scotland completes digital retinopathy roll-out

NHS Scotland has completed the national roll–out of its diabetes digital retinopathy screening service, delivered using web-based e-health technology from
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Docobo extend telehealth to mobile phones

Telehealth specialist Docobo has developed a new mobile phone application enabling remote monitoring of patients with long term health conditions.
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150 practices sign for PatientChase

More than 150 GP practices have signed up for a software system that claims to speed up call and recall
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Robotic future of patient care

As technology advances, robotics is the new revolutionary in healthcare. Kevin Fickenscher, MD and chief medical officer at Perot Systems
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New guidance on information disclosure to PCTs

The British Medical Association has issued new guidance to GPs on confidentiality and disclosure of information to primary care trusts.
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Everything you know is wrong

In a personal account of implementing NPfIT systems, Jeff Jacklin, former head of IT at Milton Keynes hospital explains the
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NHS 24 struggles to cope with rise in calls

NHS 24, Scotland’s national health information phoneline, is struggling to cope with a rise in phone calls from patients. The
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Ireland to invest Euros 500m in e-health

The Irish Government will commit almost half a billion Euros of investment to e-health when it publishes its National Development
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Patient survey results to be added to NHS Choices

The Department of Health is to add patient survey results to GP practices’ listings on the primary care section of
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