Birmingham signs with Agfa
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has signed a five-year contract for Agfa Healthcare’s IMPAX solution, delivered as a managed service.
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NHS CB builds customer service platform
The NHS Commissioning Board is working on a new ‘customer service platform’ to take over from NHS Choices and NHS Direct.
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New group to be customer for national IT
Tim Kelsey is set to chair a new informatics services commissioning group that will become an “intelligent customer” for national IT, Tim Straughan told EHI Live 2012.
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Gutteridge: SNOMED at bed is too hard
Clinicians are not using SNOMED coding to capture information about patients because it is technically too hard, EHI Live 2012 was told.
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Poulter says IT key for new DH team
Health minister Dr Dan Poulter has signalled the continued support for NHS IT under its new health secretary in a speech to EHI Live 2012.
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Bolton: NHS and SMEs must up their game
The NHS needs to make space for small and medium size IT suppliers – but these same companies need to “up their game” if they are to be taken seriously, EHI Live 2012 has been told.
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Fertility tariff defeated by coding row
The Department of Health has abandoned an attempt to develop a specialist tariff after being refused the necessary clinical codes.
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E-discharge ‘increases drug errors’
A study of an in-house e-discharge project has found that drug error rates increased rather than decreased after it was introduced.
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New body will lead NHS IT
The Department of Health has confirmed that a new body will support NHS informatics in England, while London has set up its own IT strategy group.
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Trust IT costs show no link to users
There is no relationship between trusts’ operational IT costs per user and the number of users they have, a study by ImprovIT has shown.
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