New research from doctors.net.uk has revealed that GPs' use of electronic prescriptions is gaining momentum. An online survey of 834 GPs in England found that 15% of respondents had already switched to EPS R2, with 25% of those not currently using electronic prescriptions planning to upgrade in 2014.
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Top 20 eHealth News Articles - Look Back at 2013
eHealthNews.eu Portal invites all readers to look back at the top 20 eHealth news articles that are worth revisiting, again and again, look back at the most prominent moments from the past year. According to the collected web statistics the most commonly viewed pages - the Top 20 News Articles - of the Year 2013 are:
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Santa Embraces Video Technology to Spread Christmas Joy
This year, instead of sending their Christmas lists to the North Pole in the post, children at hospitals across the UK have been getting the chance to share it with Santa Claus himself as he embraces the digital age. With the help of video communications technology from Cisco, Santa has been ‘dropping in’ to hospitals across the British Isles including Glasgow, Cardiff, Nottingham, Birmingham and London to find out what the children want for Christmas.
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Galway Pilots Aura's Flow to Ease Hospital Winter Pressures
Galway University Hospitals is piloting Aura Healthcare’s patient flow solution in a bid to manage winter pressures and bed shortages at the 600-bed hospital. Enda Daly, Galway’s head of bed management, says the main objectives are to avoid patients being left without a bed, while ensuring waiting list targets for inpatient procedures are met.
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Gateshead Health Chooses BridgeHead's VNA for its Image Data Management Strategy
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, also known as QE Gateshead, has selected BridgeHead Software (BridgeHead), the Healthcare Data Management company, to implement its Vendor Neutral Archive (VNA) for a multi-staged image management project. QE Gateshead is actively taking strategic decisions across the Trust to create a comprehensive electronic patient record (EPR) and is embarking upon a data strategy to help facilitate the EPR of which the VNA plays a significant part.
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IMS MAXIMS to Showcase Proven Dementia Software at Major Clinical Conference
IMS MAXIMS will be demonstrating the benefits of their portfolio of user-focused solutions, including innovative dementia software, to a major clinical audience at the Acute and General Medicine conference in London, 27 - 28th November.
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New Digital Health Technology to Help cancer Patients Wins Top Innovation Prize
A start-up established by medical scientists that develops mobile apps for cancer patients has taken first place in the inaugural Digital Health Masterclass Challenge hosted by Janssen Healthcare Innovation and Johnson & Johnson Innovation in London. The cutting-edge technology designed to personalise medical support for patients with cancer and improve the patient-doctor relationship highlights how digital health businesses across Europe are fast securing their position as key players in today's health ecosystem.
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