New survey hangs on the phone
Patients’ experience of getting through on the telephone for a variety of queries – including consultations and test results – will be explored in the new GP Patient Survey to be launched in January. The Department of Health has released guidance on the expanded survey, which will be sent to patients in the New Year […]
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HL7 publishes draft PHR standards
International healthcare IT standards body Health Level Seven (HL7), has published the Personal Health Record System Functional Model (PHR-S FM) as a draft standard for trial use. According to HL7, the PHR-S FM defines the set of functions that may be present in PHR systems to create and manage an effective PHR. It also offers […]
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Review calls for shake-up of pathology
The Department of Health should put in place IT connectivity for NHS pathology services as a matter of priority, a two-year review has concluded. The review of pathology services, chaired by Lord Carter of Coles, calls for DH electronic order communications pilots for primary care to be rolled out as soon as possible and suggests […]
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Eclipse is phased out
Torex, the owner of the Eclipse pharmacy system, has announced that it is to dicontinue the development of the product and cease drug data updates with immediate effect. Eclipse will no longer seek compliance for Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service. It was the second pharmacy system to achieve Release 1 accreditation in 2005, when it […]
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Bath extends deal with IBM for legacy system
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust has signed a one-year, £520,000 deal with IBM to extend support for its hospital information system. The extension will take the contract with IBM to manage the TDS patient administration system into its seventeenth year. The trust was meant to have received a replacement Cerner Millennium system as part […]
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Leicester uses FrontRange for SAM
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has bought 8,000 FrontRange SAM Suite licences to improve control of its IT inventory. Technical security specialist David Rose it became interested in software asset management after it learned about NHS Connecting for Health’s National Infrastructure Maturity Model (NIMM) and how it affected access to licences in Microsoft’s Enterprise Agreement […]
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NI completes barcode presciptions project
Northern Ireland has announced that it has successfully completed its 2D barcoded prescription project. The Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES) was launched just over two years ago, when a £6.8m contract was awarded to Hewlett-Packard to provide 2D bar-coded prescriptions to counter fraud. The system works by printing paper prescriptions with a two-dimensional barcode […]
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Sheffield rationalises printing with Xerox
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a £6m agreement with Xerox, which will take control of its printing processes. The trust is one of the largest in the country and has more than 3,200 output devices for printing, faxing, copying and scanning. Xerox analysed the trust’s usage of these devices and found that […]
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Siemens works with Hospital Clinic, Barcelona
Siemens Healthcare has signed an agreement with Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, to integrate its diagnostic, imaging and information technology systems. The company and Hospital Clinic will initially focus on three areas – liver fibrosis, foetal medicine and colon cancer – and work together to develop new working practices to increase the early detection of disease […]
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Kingston therapy supported by IMS Maxims
A new system for improving access to psychological therapies has gone live across Kingston Primary Care Trust, supported by software from IMS Maxims. The system is a response to the government’s commitment to the improving access to psychological therapies programme. Once referred, individuals are contacted by one of Turning Point’s wellbeing co-ordinators. They carry out […]
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