University students to train on Cerner
The University of the West of England has agreed a partnership with Cerner to use its Academic Education Solution to train nursing and other healthcare staff on how to use its electronic patient record system, Millennium. Students at the university will be given lessons on how to use Millennium as part of a non-assessed module […]
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St Mary’s delays go-live of CRS
The deployment of a London Cluster Release 1 Care Records System at the St Mary’s campus of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been delayed by a month due to “significant uncertainties.” The hospital was due to go live on 14 July with the Cerner Millennium system, but opted to defer deployment to the end […]
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Swiss Red Cross use Imprivata single sign-on
The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) has selected Imprivata’s OneSign single sign-on platform to provide secure, compliant access to confidential data for its employees. All 550 employees of the SRC are now using one-time password tokens to gain secure, entry into applications and critical company and patient data. Previously, the SRC and its staff faced several […]
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Act paves way for NIGB
The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent for the Health and Social Care Act 2008. Although the NIGB was formed in October last year, it was only an interim board. The PIAG was the statutory body until the Act became law. Now […]
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Strategy for greener government IT
Government departments and executive agencies are being asked to take steps to reduce the energy consumption of their IT systems and make them carbon neutral over their lifetimes. The plans have been unveiled in a strategy document, Greening Government ICT, which sets out short and longer-term targets for cutting carbon emissions. The Cabinet Office strategy […]
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EHI’s news roundup 21.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week beginning 21 July 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Poole to deploy Alcatel-Lucent wireless network Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Dorset is deploying an Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Local Area Network to help improve patient care at its 789-bed hospital. The […]
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Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals
University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a heart attack, for their clinical training from September.
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International terminology toolset in development
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has launched a campaign to build an essential health terminology toolset to improve access to the tools needed to develop, maintain, and use SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. The effort is part of an Open Health Tools Charter Project jointly sponsored by IHTSDO, the […]
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Gieseke and Devrient wins smartcard contract
Electronic Healthcare Card Munich-based identity technology specialist Giesecke & Devrient has won a contract from the German health insurer Kaufmännische Krankenkasse and 28 corporate health insurance funds to manufacture and supply around ten million electronic healthcare cards. The contract includes electronic personalisation of the smart cards so they include data relating to the insured persons […]
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Government reveals CfH underspend
NHS Connecting for Health underspent on both capital and revenue in the last financial year, due to the slow pace of care records service implementations. Figures released by health minister Ben Bradshaw reveal that the agency spent £686m on capital work in 2007/08, £229m less than the £915m budgeted for the year. It also spent […]
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