The new National Health Service outpatient appointment booking system will use agile and open technologies, the NHS said. The e-Referral Service is due to replace the Choose and Book system later this ...

[London, UK] NHS Digital has launched a new campaign to help trusts move away from paper referrals ahead of the October 2018 deadline. NHS England’s Standard Contract for 2017/19 makes full use of the ...

Demands on publicly funded ophthalmic services worldwide continue to increase with new treatments, waiting time targets, working time limits, and restricted budgets. These highlight the necessity to ...

The use of a referral system via electronic health record connected patients with prediabetes to community-based prevention programs, reaching a 21% enrollment rate. Researchers developed an ...

The new NHS online system for hospital appointment and bookings has experienced severe difficulties just two days after it was launched. The NHS e-Referral service, which replaced the £356m Choose and ...

The replacement NHS England system for booking hospital appointments has gone live, despite having 33 unresolved issues with the online software and after a warning that the service is being launched ...

HHS’ Office of the Inspector General has issued a favorable advisory opinion (pdf) regarding a proposal to provide an online service that would facilitate the exchange of information between ...

Waiting times for patient referrals to consultants are expected to improve following the establishment of the country's first national electronic GP referral system. The new system, which is a joint ...

An electronic referral service that enables specialist reviewers to triage referral requests and interact with primary care physicians online reduced the median wait time for specialty appointments in ...

A study to assess the feasibility, safety, and clinical effectiveness of electronic referral—with and without images—of patients directly from optometrists in primary care to the hospital eye service ...