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29 September 2005

GE to buy IDX for £681 million

General Electric Co.’s healthcare unit is to buy US health IT software supplier IDX Systems Corp. in a deal worth
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29 September 2005

Accreditation for e-prescription service software

Pharmacy software specialist, Systems Solutions, has received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health to transmit prescriptions electronically through N3, the
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22 September 2005

Wales publishes QoF scores

Wales has become the last of the four UK countries to publish Quality and Outcomes Framework results for its practices.
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21 September 2005

A quarter of all diabetics undiagnosed

A quarter of all people who have diabetes remain undiagnosed, leaving them at serious risk of developing serious complications. The
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20 September 2005

Trials of ‘summary spine record’ to begin in 2006

Summaries of GP records from a small number of practices are to be loaded onto the NHS spine from August
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20 September 2005

NI practice QoF scores published

Practice by practice results for the Quality and Outcome Framework in Northern Ireland have now been published and show GPs
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16 September 2005

Allergies must be Read coded for GP2GP

GPs and practice teams are being advised to record all allergies and sensitivities as Read coded entries to solve a
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13 September 2005

GP2GP goes live

A working version of the long-awaited GP2GP transfer system was demonstrated at the BCS's Primary Health Care Specialist Group Conference
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8 September 2005

Hospital reports over 2,600 e-referrals per month

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is receiving over 2,600 electronic referrals a month using software that slots into
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8 September 2005

London trusts go for IP telephony

Matrix Communications has won two large-scale contracts worth around £1m to provide new Mitel IP telephony (IPT) solutions to four
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