Fife Acute Hospitals Introduce New Network
Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has begun introducing a new Citrix-based IT network across its four main sites. The network, provided by Channel One, a business division of VisionWare Plc, is being administered by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the project’s prime contractor, and an authorised supplier through the GCAT procurement scheme. Health professionals at Fife will […]
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Virtual Consultations Could Save Unnecessary Tests
A large scale telemedicine trial published in The Lancet demonstrates that virtual outpatient appointments conducted using videoconference technology can reduce unnecessary and duplicated tests and improve patient satisfaction. Unexpectedly, however, the study did not produce a drop in the number of follow up appointments needed after the initial consultation. In fact 52% of patients in […]
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Plymouth Hospitals Go Live with E-Procurement
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has begun to trade electronically with its suppliers using EROS version 4.4 – the first e-purchasing system in Europe to be developed which includes built in Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) functionality. Plymouth is the first NHS trust that GHX and Crown Agents Purchasing Services (CAPS) have worked together with to provide […]
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Scotland Invests in Joined up Health and Social Care
The Scottish Executive announced last week that it will invest in developing data sharing and common data standards to help provide joined up health and social care as part of a £30 million programme of investment in e-government projects. The funding will be used to support the development of smartcards, data sharing, data standards and […]
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Website Unites Health Support Online
A new website aims to become the friends reunited of online health information services by linking together people who are coping with the similar diseases or injuries. The site, www.thirdaid.com, is designed to enable people to seek out others who have the same problem so that they can help each other by sharing information and […]
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Milburn says NHS Falling Behind on IT
Health secretary Alan Milburn has characterised the NHS’s information technology as fragmented and piecemeal, with low levels of investment causing the service to fall behind on IT. In an interview with the BBC’s health correspondent Chris Hogg, Milburn said it was clear that money for IT in the past has been siphoned off for other […]
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DH Preparing £5 Billion IT Strategy
This week E-Health Insider provides an advance preview of the yet to be released, yet to be approved, draft implementation strategy, "Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS". Two months ago Sir John Pattison announced at Harrogate that a new national strategy for NHS IT, based on common standards, new investment and a new […]
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West Berkshire PCTs and Torex Work on Multidisciplinary Record
Clinical teams in West Berkshire are to work with Torex Health to develop a next-generation community and primary care system which will offer online, integrated, multi-disciplinary records highlighting all aspects of a patient’s clinical care. It was announced this week that Torex had been awarded “preferred bidder” status for the final contact which is expected […]
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Health Data Protection Group Formed
The first meeting of the new Health Records and Data Protection Review Group, set up to advise the Government on helping people to gain access to their health records, took place on Friday, 24 May. The group, whose members represent patient groups, health and social care professionals and regulatory bodies, will advise the Government on […]
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Milburn Promises “Large Scale” IT Investment
The Secretary of State Alan Milburn used his speech to the NHS Confederation conference on Friday to give the strongest commitment yet that major additional investment is to be channelled into NHS IT. As part of a wide-ranging speech on NHS modernisation and the challenge facing NHS managers, Milburn told delegates at Harrogate that later […]
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