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Leading US health web sites merge

8 October 2008 12:00 AM

The number two and three US health website networks are to merge to take on the might of market leader WebMD.

PCTs increase Choose and Book incentives

7 October 2008 2:14 PM

A London PCT is to pay its GPs £3.50 for every referral made under Choose and Book as trusts step up their efforts to improve take–up of Choose and Book.

GPs face limits on third party add-ons

7 October 2008 12:21 PM

GPs in some parts of England claim they are facing unworkable restrictions on the kind of third party IT they can use in their practices under the GP Systems of Choice PCT-practice agreement.

PCTs criticised over IM+T DES ruling

7 October 2008 12:23 AM

GP representatives claim PCTs are acting incorrectly by setting a minimum number of records that have to be electronically summarised before GPs can qualify for payments under the IM&T directed enhanced service (DES).

Italian GPs get digital x-rays online

7 October 2008 12:00 AM

Carestream Health and Italy’s San Salvatore Hospital have announced the development of a new radiology information system module that enables GPs to book digital x-ray examinations and get results back online.

Basildon and Thurrock tightens security

7 October 2008 12:00 AM

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has held a USB stick amnesty and implemented new software to comply with DH data security requirements.