Patients’ prospectus launched on NHS Choices
The Department of Health has published its promised patients’ prospectus, setting out the support that people living with long term conditions should expect to receive.
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Uni-NHS link up creates mapping tools
A new visual process mapping technique that can be used to capture and improve hospital systems has been developed as the result of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership between NHS Fife and the University of Stirling. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships bring UK business and higher education together. The Fife project saw a computing graduate, Mike Ghattas, work […]
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Microsoft launches EMEA Health User Group
A year after Microsoft first announced plans to establish a health user group (HUG) for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), it this week announced the launch of the online forum. Microsoft EMEA HUG will be managed and run by the US Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HMISS). The official launch was announced […]
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Harry Cayton to chair new patient data body
Harry Cayton OBE Harry Cayton OBE is to chair the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB), which becomes a statutory body later this month. Cayton was formerly the Chair of the Care Record Development Board (CRDB) – the predecessor of the NIGB – and chaired a ministerial task force on […]
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EHTEL publishes e-health patient charter
The European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL) has published a patient charter defending patient’s rights to “switch off e-health technology”. The charter sets out the potential of e-health to improve healthcare, particularly for older people and those suffering chronic conditions, but says this must not be at the expense of patient’s privacy. The charter calls on […]
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Soft launch of Lorenzo at Morecambe Bay
A limited soft launch of the much anticipated Lorenzo electronic patient record has taken place at Furness General Hospital.
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Order comms go-live planned for Leicester
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is planning to go live at the end of this month with the second phase of its deployment of an interim order communications systems supplied by iSoft and delivered by Computer Sciences Corporation. Liz Simons, deputy director of IM&T at the trust, told last week’s Healthcare Interoperability Best Practice […]
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TPP looks at psychological therapy functionality
IT system supplier TPP is to develop its primary care system SystmOne to support the government’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. The supplier said it had been contacted by a PCT asking how SystmOne Community could help it to deliver the IAPT programme and development work is now in the pipeline. The IAPT […]
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Royal Free says £7.2m deficit due to Cerner
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has reported a £7.2 m deficit due mainly to problems with the Cerner Millennium Care Records System.
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Irish GP systems get EuroRec quality seal
Four general practice systems used in the Irish market have achieved the 2008 quality label, or seal, awarded by the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec). EuroRec is the European Commission funded-body responsible for the quality accreditation of electronic healthcare record systems. The EuroRec Seal is intended to help promote cross-border harmonisation and compatability, as […]
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