DH chooses 40 bodies for information accreditation
A total of 40 organisations have been selected to test the Department of Health’s information accreditation scheme that will award quality marks to bodies producing health and social care information. The initiative will ‘kite mark’ information producers, accrediting the source of information rather than the information itself, to make it easier for people to be […]
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Patientline acquired by Hospedia
Patientline UK has announced its decision to enter administration and been acquired by the newly formed Hospedia Ltd, a hospital entertainment and telephony company funded by the existing Patientline banking syndicate. The acquisition, which was announced late on Friday, will see £35m of Patientline’s debt wiped out through a debt for equity swap, if it […]
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Malta’s Mater Dei gets bedside entertainment
Irish based patient entertainment specialist, Lincor Solutions, has implemented its bedside TV and clinical access system, MEDIVista at the Mater Dei hospital in Malta, in a deal worth over €1.6m. The new system, delivered in partnership with Melita Cable, has been implemented across all 825 beds at the Mater Dei hospital and will enable patients […]
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Liverpool iPM glitch overbooks some clinics
Problems with a new iSoft iPM patient administration system left some patients at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust arriving for appointments that staff could no longer find records of having been made. The problems appear to relate issues with migrating appointment data from the trust’s old PAS system leading to appointment […]
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Agfa appoints new head of health IT
Belgian giant, Agfa Healthcare, has appointed a new executive vice president to head its healthcare IT division and grow the company’s global market position. Dr Volker Wetekam will lead Agfa HealthCare’s global HealthCare IT division, heading up an operation of around 3,000 staff members and report directly to Christian Reinaudo, president of Agfa HealthCare. He […]
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Call for information investment in PBC groups
The NHS Alliance is calling for practice-based commissioning groups to be given the money to fund their own information needs. The Alliance, which represents PCTs and GP practices, has claimed that PCTs’ failure to provide GP practices with accurate and meaningful data has been sabotaging PBC. In a new policy document, A Vision for Practice […]
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European judgement casts doubts on NHS CRS consent
A GP campaigning against the consent model for the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) claims a European Court of Human Rights judgement reinforces his view that the NHS database is unlawful. In a judgement published last week the European Court of Human Rights ruled that a nurse in Finland had her right to privacy breached. […]
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Telford PCT introduces digital dictation
Community doctors at Telford and Wrekin PCT have signed a deal to use digital dictation technology from TalkingPoint to record their diagnoses whilst on the move. The PCT is to offer a new mobile service to 15 of its community-based doctors within the community paediatric service. As a result of the new service staff will […]
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EHI’s news roundup 25.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 25 July 2008 featuring supplier news and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Norfolk NHS website struck by Asprox virus The personal details of thousands of internet users who visited several key government and consumer websites are at risk because of a new form […]
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European Court fines Finland for data breach
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen’s personal data, by not adequately securing and protecting a patient’s confidential record. The case could prove significant by creating a legal precedent, based on the European Convention on Human Rights, linking data security […]
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