PRIMIS+ moves to NHS Information Centre
Responsibility for the data quality organisation PRIMIS+ is to move from NHS Connecting for Health to the NHS Information Centre from the beginning of next year. PRIMIS+ has a four year contract with CfH to provide data quality and information management training and support to NHS staff, but the contract will be transferred to the […]
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IMS Maxims buys CSW assets
IMS Maxims Plc today announced it has acquired certain assets of CSW Group Limited, the Oxford-based health software developer currently in administration. IMS says it is now working closely with BT, to ensure a smooth transition of support takes place, for both the eSAP and CHIA solutions which were developed by CSW and deployed in areas […]
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Choose and Book slot availability improves
Problems with slot availability on Choose and Book are beginning to fall, with availability issues affecting between 12% and 13% of patients, compared with 20% three months ago, according to the e-booking team. Dr Stephen Miller, national medical director for Choose and Book, said slot availability issues have fallen over recent weeks but work still […]
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Westminster accelerates access to applications
Westminster Primary Care Trust has solved lengthy log in times for community staff by implementing a Cisco Wide Area Application Service across five of its 22 sites. By using the WAAS and sorting out profiles the PCT has reduced log on and log off times to its network from over seven minutes to less than a minute, […]
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Information Centre checks GP Choices details
The NHS Information Centre is contacting every GP practice in England to check the accuracy of data held about them on NHS Choices. The website’s own research has revealed that some of the information is wrong. The massive data checking exercise has been initiated because primary care trusts are planning to distribute literature to English […]
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Vienna to host IHE’s 2009 Connectathon
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) Europe will hold its ninth annual Connectathon event in Vienna, Austria, on 20-24 April next year. The Connectathon provides a unique opportunity for application interoperability testing, taking existing standards and frameworks and showing they work in real systems. The event will be hosted by the Austrian IHE initiative, which says […]
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Consent to view to get first test
Five GP practices in South West Essex are to become the first GPs in the country to implement the new ‘consent to view’ model for the Summary Care Record from this week.
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No more pins: digital signage in Birmingham
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has deployed one of the UK’s largest digital signage networks. The Connectvision system from Saturn Communications Group will deliver visitor and internal information to 75 digital LCD screens and more than 5,000 desktop PCs. The trust says that on any one day, 10,000 patients, visitors and staff can be […]
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Hungary signs e-health deal with GE Healthcare
The Hungarian government has awarded GE Healthcare a €3.3m deal to lead a project on developing telecare services for elderly citizens.
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NHS Tayside and Lanarkshire guilty of data breaches
Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper records at abandoned hospitals. NHS Tayside and NHS Lanarkshire have been ordered to sign an agreement to comply with the Data Protection Act (DPA) or face possible future prosecution. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found […]
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