E-Health Insider’s industry round up 18.12.2008
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round covers system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Data Transfer Service contract negotiations complete NHS Connecting for Health has announced that it has completed contract negotiations for the ongoing provision of the Data Transfer Service with BT. Existing contractual arrangements ended in […]
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Nottingham PCT rolls out IP communications
Nottingham Primary Care trust has rolled out a modern communications network to cover the city centre, county and surrounding districts. The PCT issued a tender for a technology refresh in January 2007, indicating that it wanted to develop its infrastructure to meet emerging business needs and take advantage of new technologies. The ability to network […]
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Software replaces fax and phone organ allocation
NHS Blood and Transplant is preparing to roll out a new software system to speed up the process of allocating organs for transplant.
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Emergency and continuity planning strengthened
BT has won a contract from the Cabinet Office Civil Contingencies Secretariat and the Communities and Local Government department to develop a national extranet for civil emergencies. The company will work alongside Ultra Electronics Datel to develop a National Resilience Extranet that should be live in 2009. The NRE will be a browser based system […]
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Six hundred volunteers test NHSmail
NHS Connecting for Health is planning to start “extended user acceptance testing” of the new NHSmail platform on Monday.
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Shake up in Informatics Planning
Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to plan and deliver the IT needed to do it. Informatics Planning 2009-10, a document published alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, further shifts attention from the National Programme for IT in […]
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Operating Framework stresses savings and Darzi
NHS organisations have been told to sort out their finances in preparation for making “very substantial efficiency savings” in 2010-11, when the health service’s three year settlement comes to an end. The Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, announced by the Department of Health yesterday but only released onto its website this morning, […]
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Its name is RiO
The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health outlines the benefits of the RiO electronic care records system to London.
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IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech
The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new information services for the public, the Queen’s speech has confirmed. The National Health Service Reform Bill will give the NHS its first, ever written constitution, drive forward the government’s quality and choice agendas, and strengthen […]
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Better search: a cure for cyberchondria?
Search engines may need to be redesigned to stop people turning into “cyberchondriacs”, a study by Microsoft Research has suggested. The study found that general search engines can lead people to escalate medical concerns – so that, for example, they start by searching for “headache” and end up looking for “brain tumour.” It also found […]
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