South of Tyne and Wear secures devices
NHS South of Tyne and Wear is adopting a layered approach to device security in the light of public concern over data breaches. The management structure, which covers Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Teaching primary care trusts, is using FrontRange Solutions’ Device Wall to control the transfer of information to encrypted devices, alongside McAfee endpoint […]
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TPP moves on secondary care
TPP has launched a series of SystmOne modules covering acute hospitals, community hospitals, mental health, social services and out-of-hours care.
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Scrap big government IT: think tank
A right-wing think tank has called for more open standards and open source development in IT, arguing this could lead to savings of 50% on government IT expenditure. A paper published by the Centre for Policy Studies – It’s ours. Why we, not the government own our data – dismisses the government’s Transformational Government strategy […]
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Tower Hamlets drops RiO for EMIS Web
A London primary care trust has opted out of NHS Connecting for Health plans to install the community and child health system RiO, deciding instead to use EMIS Web across primary and community care. The move by NHS Tower Hamlets means the PCT is breaking away from the London Programme for IT’s ‘best of breed’ solution for […]
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Kent rolls out System C’s IGFlow
System C has started to roll out a new information governance product across Kent, with six environments “ready to go.” The new product, named IGFlow, is designed to help healthcare organisations to track information flows around their own organisations and to other organisations, including emails, letters, faxes, CDs, X-rays and other media. It includes an […]
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IBM unveils analytics solutions centre
IBM has announced that it is to open an analytics solution centre in Berlin to serve healthcare organisations, the public sector and universities. The company says the centre will help to give clients faster access to high quality data and to help them analyse and interpret it, leading to improved decision-making. It will also focus […]
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Community quality indicators launched
The Department of Health has launched more than 70 proposed quality indicators for community services alongside six guides to transforming community services. The guides include advice on how IT can be harnessed to improve patient care, particularly through the sharing of information. On end of life care, the examples of actions with the greatest potential […]
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Brown plans for ‘entitlements’
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has outlined plans to give public service users new "entitlements", while promising a tougher NHS performance management regime and massive efficiency savings. Building Britain’s Future says the NHS will be reformed by moving from a system primarily based on targets and central direction to one in which individuals have "enforceable" entitlements over the service […]
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Orange Austria targets mobile e-health
Orange Austria and charity Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Österreich (Workers Samaritan Federation Austria) have begun a trial to pilot a mobile e-health solution for monitoring blood sugar levels and blood pressure. Orange Austria and Alcatel-Lucent have equipped the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund with the Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager solution, an off the shelf e-health platform. The TeleHealth Manager is a tele-monitoring solution that […]
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SOCITM calls for IT stimulus
A leading consortium has called for a £1 billion IT stimulus package from central government to overhaul IT services in local government, health and education in order to cut carbon emissions and create savings. Steve Palmer, president of SOCITM, told E-Health Insider: “We are not asking for a grant, we want to borrow the money […]
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