Lord Hunt – “We Will Meet EPR targets”
Lord Hunt, the health minister with responsibility for IT, has underlined his determination that the NHS will achieve its targets on electronic records and spoken of the damage caused by the previous government’s “awful failures” in technology. Speaking to the British Journal of Health Care Management Lord Hunt said, “We will get there and I […]
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GP Pathology Messaging Contracts Under Negotiation
A central procurement process has started to ensure that GPs have the right software to handle online pathology reports and results, the NHS Information Authority announced this week. The roll out of online pathology messaging is due to be completed by the target date of December 2002. The service – the first national system to […]
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Torex Wins Contracts at Two Shared Services Sites
Torex Health has been awarded five year contracts to implement Oracle financial services software at two shared services centres due to open in autumn this year. The centres at Bristol and South Leeds will provide a range of financial services to various NHS organisations including acute, primary care and ambulance trusts in two UK regions […]
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PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans
Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold while new national plans for IM&T strategy are drawn up. A new wave of Primary Care Trusts and strategic health authorities was created on 1 April, when health authorities were abolished replaced by 302 Primary […]
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NHSIA to Develop Infrastructure for Web Services
The NHS Information Authority has announced the launch of a new Health Records Infrastructure programme intended to make it possible to share patients’ healthcare details nationally by creating virtual patient records. The Health Records Infrastructure programme is intended to provide new services based on web technology. The new programme was first unveiled by new NHS […]
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RCN Signs $6.5m Contract with Axia
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Axia NetMedia Corporation of Canada announced a $6.5m deal this week to create an online professional development application for the college’s 340,000 members. The project will run over seven years and cover both the development and maintenance of the application. RCN Learning Zone is the title chosen for […]
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IBM Partners With Mayo Clinic
IBM Partners With Mayo Clinic IBM and the US Mayo Clinic have announced an agreement to jointly develop an information system designed integrate patient records and give Mayo Clinic investigators access to information that can help them more rapidly carry out clinical research and support clinical decisions. When completed the system should help investigators understand […]
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Five Booked Admissions ‘Enterprise Communities’ Announced
Five new ‘Enterprise Communities’ have been announced to speed up the introduction of electronic booked admissions into the NHS. The five sites will be supported by £2m of funding. In an address to NHS Booked Admissions Programme staff in Manchester today, health minister John Hutton said: "These new Enterprise Communities are leading the biggest healthcare […]
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GPs Believe EPRs Will Improve Patient Care
A major new survey of the attitudes Yorkshire GPs to electronic patient records in primary and community care has revealed that 60% of them believe that the introduction of electronic records will improve patient care. However, almost half (48%) of them say they either will not, or don’t know, whether they will be able to […]
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Mobile Mental Health EPR a European First
Mental Health services are rarely seen as being on the glamorous side of information technology in healthcare but a groundbreaking Dutch project has shown the benefits of providing mental health professionals with the very latest in mobile technology. Backed by the specialist Robert Fleury hospital in The Hague, a project to develop mobile electronic patient […]
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