GPs vote to halt Care Record Service development
GP representatives overwhelmingly backed a motion to call a halt to development of the NHS Care Records Service at the BMA’s annual Local Medical Committees conference on Friday. LMC representatives backed a motion expressing no confidence in the government’s ability to store electronic patient records safely. They also backed calls to support patients who wish […]
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Telecare features in government’s Carers Strategy
Telecare will play a major role in ensuring that the 5.2m carers in England and Wales get to have a life of their own, according to the government’s newly-published Carers Strategy. The strategy sets out a ten-year programme to improve the lives of carers and has been backed by £255m of investment to expand short […]
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EHI’s news roundup 13.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 13 June 2008 features new initiatives, supplier news, awards and newly published reports. New websites and web tools: Department of Health revises Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool A revised Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool is to be launched to help areas identify local health inequalities and […]
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Agfa to expand Chinese PACS/RIS deal
Agfa HealthCare is to implement a second phase radiology information and system (RIS) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) program at the First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University. The deal follows the initial roll-out of the hospital’s original RIS/PACS in 2006. The new collaboration with Agfa Healthcare, which is planned to start this […]
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Intel launches online community for carers
Intel has launched a new social network site intended to bring together carers, nurses and patients, enabling them to share experiences and information. It is also hoped the site will help overcome the feelings of isolation many carers experience. ConnectingForCare.co.uk is described as the first online community for family carers, community and district nurses, healthcare […]
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Portsmouth deploys electronic document management
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has fully deployed an electronic document management system, using barcodes to store information on the location of paper records that have to be kept for legal reasons. The trust deployed the EDM system in May this year, after two years of piloting. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo in London earlier […]
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Lorenzo likely to be further delayed
The deployment of Lorenzo release 1 to three early adopter sites is likely to be further delayed, E-Health Insider has learned. University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust was scheduled to deploy the first release of iSoft’s key product this weekend. But the trust, its local strategic health authority and NHS Connecting for Health all […]
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Winchester has four-day Millennium failure
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, has in the past week suffered a four day problem with its Cerner Millennium Care Records System (CRS) that left it unavailable to some users for up to four days. The problems began on Thursday, 5 June, and though largely resolved by Sunday were not fully fixed until Monday, […]
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CfH overlooks the present at Smart Healthcare
NHS Connecting for Health’s presence at this week’s Smart Healthcare expo left many attendees disappointed. Chief operating officer, Gordon Hextall, and national clinical director, Dr Mark Davies, were unexpectedly absent, and their stand-ins had little to say about current concerns. Hextall pulled out of Tuesday’s stream – ‘Leading transformational change in the NHS’ – which […]
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Centre of Health Technology opens in Oslo
A European Centre of Health Technology has been opened in Oslo, Norway. The centre was officially opened by Parliamentary Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Services, Kari Henriksen. Developed by strategic co-operation between HP, Telenor, Microsoft, Imatis and Cisco, the centre is equipped like a small hospital, complete with a patient room, […]
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