One third of PCT-practice agreements signed
Just over a third of primary care trust-practice agreements for the GP Systems of Choice framework had been signed by the end of the year, according to NHS Connecting for Health. Latest figures published by the agency show that 2,514 agreements had been signed by 19 December out of a possible 7,519. CfH had originally hoped that […]
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Study on progress to European e-health space
Details have been released of a new EU-funded study into measuring progress towards an interoperable e-health space The objectives of the study are to measure and assess Union Member States eHealth progress. Fostering the development and implementation of national eHealth policies and strategies has been a key goal of the EU e-health Action Plan of […]
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Here is the news: for 2009
The NHS will not be immune from the impact of the credit crunch and this will force policy makers and trusts to make some hard decisions about healthcare IT, according to experts interviewed by E-Health Insider. Almost all the politicians, analysts, suppliers and managers asked to look ahead to 2009 argued that the health service […]
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IT’s the EHI quiz of the year!
Do you know which husky slayer went off down under in 2008? And if that’s too easy, do you know which Bolton Wander’s fan made it onto a list of the 50 most influential people in healthcare this year? If you do – and you also know your PAC from your PACS, can remember how […]
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NHS Choices to offer GP rating for patients
Patients will be able to rate their GP’s performance via the NHS Choices website from next summer, according to reports today. Health minister, Ben Bradshaw says in an interview with the Guardian that he wants the site to do for healthcare what Amazon has done for the book trade. The idea was condemned by the […]
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Australia warns of e-health fragmentation
Australia requires a national co-ordinated approach on e-health, or risks creating duplication and fragmentation, states a new national e-health report.
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Here was the news: in 2008
The future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS was the big news of 2008. E-Health Insider’s review of the year opens with calls from opposition politicians for the programme to be reviewed or abandoned and closes with NHS chief executive David Nicholson admitting that it is now at a “pivotal point.” The […]
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Report on telehealth workshop published
The European Commission’s ICT for Health unit has released a report from its November ‘procuring for health benefits’ telehealth workshop. Determining the state of the art and lessons learned in e-health procurement were the focus of the workshop, with particular regard to deploying telemedicine services. The workshop was run as part of the World of […]
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Here was the news for 2008
The past 12 months in primary care IT have seen the implementation of a scheme to secure GP IT system choice, increasing numbers of GP records transferred electronically and a new consent model introduced for the NHS Summary Care Record. Less successfully, 2008 also saw the disappearance of one local service provider, the government seemingly […]
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Self-service kiosks for Birmingham hospital
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is to install self-service kiosks developed with Blue Prism in the reception areas of its new hospital. The trust is involved in a major building project, as part of which it needed to streamline its reception and registration processes. Patrick Geary, chief marketing officer for Blue Prism, said the […]
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