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22 September 2006

GP computer supplier EMIS is to pilot GP access to patient records via a BlackBerry mobile device from next month.

20 September 2006

More than 110 major incident failures have been reported by hospitals and GPs over the past four months relating to

19 September 2006

NHS Connecting for Health is to roll out GP2GP record transfer to another 500 practices by the end of March

19 September 2006

Misspelt electronic records can have serious effects. Daloni Carlisle looks at the results of a three-year initiative to test the

18 September 2006

Dr Amir Hannan has been awarded this year’s John Perry prize at the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group

15 September 2006

Welsh GP practices have increased their average achievement in the Quality and Outcomes Framework to more than 1000 points,

14 September 2006

GP representatives have issued advice to practices considering moving to central servers, including guidance about migration of patient lists. The

14 September 2006

Almost 15,500 connections have been made to the national network, N3, and work is on schedule to be completed in

13 September 2006

Upfront payments totalling nearly £82m were made to health IT specialists, iSoft, in a complex deal which gave the company money

12 September 2006

A much-anticipated report on the future of primary care IT systems in Scotland has been delayed, and will undergo further work before

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