Docman have launched their new cloud based software platform Docman 10. Docman 10 manages the transfer of care process between clinicians and healthcare organisations and the announcement was made to around 700 delegates at the Conferences coinciding with the first GP Practice site going live with the software. Ric Thompson, […]
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6 CCGs to use iPlato representing 1.6 million patients
iPLATO Healthcare has announced that an additional 6 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG’s) representing over 1.6 million patients across South West London are to use iPlato and the myGP app. The free patient-facing platform helps speed up access to care by allowing patients to securely book and/or cancel appointments 24/7. Also fully […]
GP Practices in Hull and East Riding to open Monday as systems start to come back online
GP practices across Hull and East Riding will be open as usual on Monday. However many are still bringing their IT and clinical systems back on-line following the cyber-attack, which took place on Friday 12 May 2017 and affected many organisations around the world. Some practices will not yet have […]
People living with diabetes benefit from watching films online
A pilot service-evaluation study, undertaken by Swansea University, has shown that watching short health information films online helps people living with type 2 diabetes reduce their HbA1c – an established marker of diabetes control. The report, to be published in the May issue of the international journal Primary Care Diabetes, […]
GP practice triples online patients in one week
A GP practice in Cumbria more than tripled the number of patients registered to use its online services in just one week with an extensive information drive. Practices across England aimed to get 10% of their patients registered for GP online services by 31 March, 2017. The Duke Street Surgery […]
800 GP Practices order Docman 10
Docman has announced 800 GP Practices have ordered Docman 10, the platform set to revolutionise the transfer of care between and within healthcare organisations, ahead of the imminent product release next month. The company said there has been huge demand in the market place for their web-based platform with CCGs, GP […]
New, faster Vision Appointments App now centrally funded through GPSoC
CCGs can now order Vision’s new Appointments App under the GPSoC framework. The app, available for order and deployment to practices free of charge, is set to cut typical appointment booking time in half. This frees up valuable admin time and reduces wait times for patients while booking or changing […]
Electronic records enable safer hospital care for Ayrshire patients
A multidisciplinary team is giving safer, more efficient care to vulnerable patients in an Ayrshire hospital, with the help of two-way record sharing via EMIS Health. More than 50 staff – including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals such as physiotherapists – have switched from paper records to the EMIS […]
Long-term conditions tool reduces GPs’ workload and speeds up care
A West Midlands GP is reducing workload and speeding up vital care for patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) using a new tool he developed using EMIS Health technology. Dr Nicholas Boeckx, of Halesowen Medical Practice in Dudley, has developed protocols and templates that enable trained healthcare assistants (HCAs) to carry […]
Great North Care Record sign up 96% of North East GP practices
369 practices across the North East are using the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) to share 3.6 million patient records. The Great North Care Record is a project led by GP practices, hospitals, community and mental health trusts. It aims to create an agreed Dataset of patient information which can be […]
