The United Kingdom has been the pioneer in introducing e-healthcare initiatives among major Western European countries, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan analysis. The UK government has successfully implemented several nationwide e-health projects with the support of British Telecom and other industry stakeholders.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has extended the use of the existing IMS MAXIMS Patient Administration System (PAS) to include St Mary's and the Western Eye Hospitals.

Clinical Solutions, the national provider of telephone triage and prioritisation software, has announced the launch and initial deployment of its scalable IntefleCS 111 solution.

NHS Tayside has become the first NHS organisation in the UK to employ Voice Technologies’ WinVoicePro to achieve electronic correspondence between all clinics and GP practices; equating to a saving of more than £250,000 per year.

COCIR issued an easy-to-use tool to help determine whether software is a medical device or not. Since the revision of the European Medical Device Directive, in force as of 21 March 2010, the definition for medical devices also includes software used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

McKesson UK, the trusted healthcare IT solutions and services specialist, has been awarded 'IT Supplier of the Year' by The British Computer Society (BCS) & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2010.

International clinical supply chain experts Sentient Health are offering NHS trusts the chance to identify and make immediate savings and improve their efficiency. The company, which is expanding rapidly in the UK, has launched an 'Evidence Based Savings' assessment (EBSa) to enable trusts to identify which clinical supplies are overstocked, under-stocked and out of date.