17 February 2006

Incentives fail to convince GPs on Choose and Book

Only one in three GPs believe the new contract payment for Choose and Book to be introduced from April will
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17 February 2006

New timetable for trusts to switch to XML for CRS data

NHS Connecting for Health has outlined a new timetable for changing the way in which data is sent to the
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16 February 2006

Missing link

Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH
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16 February 2006

Poll shows strong clinical support for IT modernisation

An online poll carried out by Doctors.net.uk found that has found that 80% of doctors say they support moves to
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16 February 2006

HIMSS makes European move

Nine European organisations and HIMSS, the US-based Health Information and Management Systems Society, have combined to produce a new conference,
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16 February 2006

ECGs by phone for GPs in the north west

GPs in Lancashire and Cumbria SHA have started using a telephone-based clinical monitoring service, using small devices that take ECGs
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15 February 2006

US health IT tsar rejects ‘Google’ style record sharing

The idea of a creating a virtual network that keeps health data in its original store and shares information via
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15 February 2006

Rio to be ‘interim’ mental health system in London

BT Capital Care Alliance, the Local Service Provider for London, has selected CSE Servelec’s RiO system as an interim community
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14 February 2006

Lorenzo CRS solution delayed until late 2007

The delivery of the strategic Care Record Service solution in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been confirmed
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14 February 2006

GP-to-GP record transfer roll-out slows

The second pilot site for GP2GP transfer of patient records is due to get underway next week but rollout of
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