ELGIN GPs DECIDED IT WAS TOO DANGEROUS TO TREAT THEM WITHOUT MEDICAL HISTORY By Donna MacAllister Published: 09/02/2010 Hundreds of people in Moray were unable to see their GPs after a computer system crashed, blocking access to medical records. Patients were turned away from the Maryhill Practice at Elgin Health Centre after doctors decided it [...]
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-Nurses and doctors set to benefit from easier and quicker access to patients’ records- Eton, UK – 03 February 2010 – InterSystems has announced that it has signed a framework contract with NHS National Service Scotland to supply its InterSystems TrakCare™ connected health information system as the new national patient management system for Scotland. The [...]
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Orion Health™ appointed for pilot ECR Project in Northern Ireland Tuesday, 15 December 2009 Orion Health Ltd, a leading provider of integration technology for the health care industry worldwide, has been appointed by Northern Ireland to pilot a new Electronic Care Record (ECR). The one year pilot phase will see hospitals and GP practices across [...]
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Moray residents can chat with fellow sufferers and read clinicians’ blogs By Donna MacAllister Published: 12/11/2009 Moray’s first “virtual” surgery, designed to make people experts in their own healthcare, was launched yesterday. Health-e-space.com enables patients to “visit the clinic”, chat to other Moray residents with similar medical problems, pinpoint local health information, read clinicians’ blogs [...]
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Posted on Mon, Nov 09, 2009 – 02:45 pm Adolescent nonadherence has presented a major challenge to healthcare professionals in transplantation and other medical fields, who for years have tried to address the issue with little success. But researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York recently published the results of a study showing that [...]
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A Clinical Portal Programme is being established to provide strategic direction and leadership to the development and delivery of portal capabilities across NHS Scotland. The programme will work closely with key stakeholders and will encourage consortia of Health Boards to take the lead in the delivery of essential components. A Clinical Portal Programme Board, made [...]
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Scottish Clinical Information in Practice, SCIMP 2009 Conference at Dunblane Hydro 3 & 4 November 2009 Applying eHealth making IT a success in primary care This year’s conference will focus on the ways we can make technology actually deliver improvement in the services we provide all the way from the bedside to the boardroom. Invited [...]
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