Charity funds web-based service for deaf
A UK charity is making a web-based communication programme for deaf people available free to GP practices for a year. SignHealth says all GP practices can access its communication program SignTranslate free of charge until 31 July 2009 by logging on to its website. Practices using the GP IT system EMIS will be able to […]
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Choose and Book hits 10m bookings
Connecting for Health has announced that the electronic booking system Choose and Book has been used to make more than 10 million bookings. The NHS IT agency says all NHS hospitals in England are now using Choose and Book along with 91% of GP practices in England. However usage remains at around the 50% mark […]
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Canada’s Infoway says 254 EHR projects underway
Canada’s electronic health record projects have quadrupled since 2004, according to the head of the Canadian health IT agency. Investment in EHRs is said to have increased by 12% in the past year alone. Canada Health Infoway – an independent, not-for-profit organization funded by the Canadian government – jointly invests with every province or territory […]
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Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust was forced to develop workarounds for isolating MRSA patients after Cerner’s Millennium care records system was unable to cope with its superbug monitoring system for 18 months. In minutes obtained by E-Health Insider under the Freedom of Information Act, the trust’s National Programme for IT in the NHS programme board says […]
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Health bodies to get details of citizens’ email and internet use
Public bodies in the UK, including health authorities, could be given the power to access details of everyone’s personal text messages, emails and internet use if new Home Office proposals are passed. The British government office has published a consultation paper, which considers making logs of all telephone calls and internet usage, including e-mails mandatory […]
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Health bodies could access communication logs
Public bodies, including health authorities, could be able to access information about all personal calls and internet use under proposals from the Home Office. The department has published a consultation paper that considers making logs of all telephone calls and internet usage, including e-mails and Voice over Internet Protocol calls, mandatory for at least 12 […]
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Open Health Tools accepts code donation
Open Health Tools (OHT) today announced it has accepted a code donation from the California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) of key software components from a $10 million health information data exchange project. The code donation will allow distributed online collaborative development of tools to enable the secure exchange of healthcare information. The donation has been aided […]
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US-wide EHRs priced at $150 billion
The full implementation of a digital US healthcare system, with integrated networked electronic health records (EHR) in all US doctors’ offices and hospitals, has been estimated as costing around €97 billion ($150 billion) over eight years. The figure was suggested by Robert Miller, a professor of health economics at the University of California, San Francisco, […]
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Automated COPD warnings cut hospital admissions
An automated telephone alert system to warn people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) about forthcoming bad weather has cut emergency hospital admissions by more than a fifth, according to the Met Office. Healthy Outlook, the health forecasting service provided by the Met Office, was used to alert more than 8,000 patients from 189 GP […]
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Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project
Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between the hospital and local GP practices. Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust’s associate director of IT business change, Maggie Craddock, said: “This was something we chose to do in-house in advance of the national NHS Connecting for […]
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