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UK wants docs to prescribe apps instead of some visits
England's National Health Service just announced it will encourage general practitioners to "prescribe" apps rather than actual doctors' visits whenever possible. The core idea is to get British
UK health officials push home monitoring
British health officials are all but banking on mobile and wireless technologies for patient self-monitoring as part of a 20-billion-pound ($31.6 billion) cost-savings plan for the National Health
CSC, RIM launch 'super app' for UK clinicians on BlackBerry
Computer Sciences Corp. and Research in Motion have teamed up to develop a "super app" that will allow staff in several regions of England's National Health Service to access and update patient data
UK health system overhaul to cut layers of managers
In one of the biggest shakeups in the history of the UK's state-funded health system, the new coalition government announced that it will cut a layer of financial managers and save as much as 20
Cerner implementation at UK hospital has 'gone remarkably well'
Here's something you don't see every day: an EMR success story in England's massive National Programme for IT. Implementation of a Cerner Millennium system at the Kingston Hospital National Health
Specialists clamor for remote access, wireless devices at UK hospital system
One of the unique qualities of mobile healthcare technology is that adoption is often led by users rather than than the IT department, from the grass roots rather than the C-suite. Such is the case
UK Study: EMR mining for heart risk as effective as universal screening
Foes of big government rejoice--though this news does come from England's National Health Service. Mining of primary care EMRs to find patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease is just as
Simple mobile technologies could save British NHS billions
If you thought our recent debate over health policy was contentious and occasionally brain-dead, just wait until you see what's brewing across the Atlantic. "The British public have a love-hate
PHR usage is even lower in England than in the U.S.
The minuscule uptake of personal health records isn't just an American phenomenon. In fact, PHR usage is even lower in England. Of the 1.2 million people with PHRs--called the Summary Care
Routine breast cancer screenings can lead to unnecessary treatment, study says
Perhaps it's just a case of doctors being overly cautious to avoid lawsuits, but women who undergo routine breast cancer screenings in Britain tend to be over-diagnosed and forced into unnecessary
