Southern nine rolling out TPP
All nine child and community health providers in the South have now deployed at least one module from TPP’s SystmOne as part of a £32m project backed by central funding.
News
HSCIC warns of HES confidentiality
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has asked a “significant” number of trusts to delete data containing Hospital Episode Statistics returns that could breach patient confidentiality.
News
CSU builds ‘pseudo at source’ tool
The Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit is developing a ‘pseudonymise at source’ tool to address legal issues around the use of patient identifiable data.
News
‘VistA for NHS’ ready for trusts
An Anglicised version of the VistA electronic patient record system is now ready to be deployed at NHS trusts, according to one of the companies behind its development.
News
Scale of data release to police revealed
More than 2,700 releases of non-clinical information about NHS patients were made to law enforcement organisations in the year to March 2014, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has revealed.
News
Caldicott to oversee care.data pilot
The pilot phase of the controversial care.data programme will be subject to scrutiny from an independent panel led by Dame Fiona Caldicott, Tim Kelsey has told MPs.
News
SCR reaches 40m patients
The NHS Summary Care Record has hit the 40m patient mark, just over a year after low usage rates led to calls for it to be scrapped.
News
NPfIT exit costs still under discussion
The Department of Health is in talks with the Treasury and NHS trusts over who will pay National Programme for IT exit costs, after funding “important activities” for the first exit of a Cerner Millennium trust in London.
News
Neova Health releases open-eObs code
Tactix4 has released the code for its open source nursing observations system, with more modules to be put online soon.
News
Leeds shared record suppliers named
A shared care record and improved information governance protocols are key parts of a pioneering project for integrated care in Leeds, those behind the initiative have said.
News