20 January 2006

Public-private venture ‘to improve access’ to info

Dr Foster, a commercial provider of healthcare information, and the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have formed a
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19 January 2006

Pharmacists to get access to EPS but not CRS

Pharmacists are to be registered for access to the NHS spine to enable electronic transmission of prescriptions but will be
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19 January 2006

NHS CfH says spine now fixed

NHS Connecting for Health, the DH agency responsible for delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT, has issued a
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19 January 2006

Ofcom calls for review of hospital phone charges

A review group is to be set up to look at hospital bedside telephone and entertainment services and see whether
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18 January 2006

US regional information networks predicted to grow

Forrester Research is predicting that 2006 will be the year that new regional information networks and organisations (RHIOs), that will
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18 January 2006

CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS

New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications
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18 January 2006

GP says C+B not economic for his practice

A GP has claimed the newly-announced incentives on offer for Choose and Book will still make it uneconomical for his
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17 January 2006

PCT reorganisation unsettles IT community

The NHS IT community has echoed the House of Commons health select committee’s criticism of the government’s latest reorganisation of PCTs, expressing unease
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17 January 2006

Hospitals trial online complaint resolution

An electronic dispute resolution system for patients, which allows parties to come to agreement online using electronic templates, is currently
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16 January 2006

Warning on patient data from medicines reviews

Pharmacists are being warned not to e-mail medicines use reviews to GPs until concerns over confidentiality have been addressed. The
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