PCTI, the electronic document management specialists, announce the next phase of Docman BackOffice, a range of specific apps to streamline the back office function of a GP practice.

Apollo Medical Systems has announced it has successfully partnered with Insight UK Ltd to win the tender to deliver data for the National Diabetes Audit.

Healthcare Computing has announced a new contract with Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (SaSH) to provide an IT Service Desk service, 1st line support and a hosted incident management system.

TPP has switched on Summary Care Record (SCR) viewer functionality at two SystmOne organisations. The functionality will allow users to view the SCR of any consenting patient who visits them (providing the primary GP has initially uploaded the SCR to SPINE).

SEHTA, the South East Health Technologies Alliance, has welcomed the Prime Minister's announcement that telecare and telehealth systems will be rolled out to the homes of three million people over the next five years as part of a plan to help patients and reduce costs.

By Michael Thick
When plans for the vision of the future of healthcare in the UK were recently announced, one of its central aims was to bring NHS resources and decision-making "as close to the patient as possible."

EHealth Insider's campaign to promote the role of chief clinical information officer (CCIO) has reached a vital milestone as three trusts announced that they had appointed senior clinicians into leading information roles.

Despite negative comment around the abandoned NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) and general gloom in the public sector, England’s hospitals are set to increase their spend on IT, according a new market intelligence report.

Doctors at Holt Medical Practice, Norfolk expressed an interest in voice recognition to improve both the quality and efficiency of their clinical administrative procedures and selected GHG's TalkingPoint

Centrix Software, a provider of unified end-user computing solutions, has announced it will be providing a free-of-charge analytics solution that delivers software install data and usage reporting to all NHS Trusts in the UK for a limited period.