Southern contract reset deadline up
The deadline set for completing the contract reset in the South of England has expired without agreement being reached. At the beginning of the current reset process, July 31 2007, January was set as the deadline in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between local service provider Fujitsu and the Southern Programme for IT (SPfIT). However, […]
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Aberdeen A+E pilots video booths
Emergency patients in North-East Scotland can now remotely consult with a doctor using video conferencing technology.
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Use of Choose and Book hits 50 percent
The online NHS patient appointment booking service Choose and Book is being used for about 50% of referrals according to Connecting for Health. This marks a significant milestone in the use of the e-booking service, which has now been used for more than six million referrals. All the more impressive given that just over a […]
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Full Lorenzo benefits expected 2012
Latest plans for the delivery of the Lorenzo next generation clinical software system under the NHS IT programme show it is not expected to be fully implemented until 2012. The strategic software, currently under development by iSoft, is to be delivered by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in the North, East and Midlands, to three-fifths of […]
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LCM migrate 30TB of data to new system
LCM, Belgium’s largest health insurer, has migrated its mainframe databases to a new information system, with the help of legacy modernisation specialist Anubex. The databases contained data on all patients covered by LCM, equivalent to almost half the population of Belgium. The data was migrated as part of an ongoing initiative from LCM to improve […]
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National media attention for anti-smartcard group
In Germany this week doctors and civil rights activists joined forces to organise a boycott of the German smartcard programme, attracting huge media interest, including national TV. The new alliance went public last Friday with a joint press conference at which it proclaimed the explicit goal of halting the smartcard health programme and move to […]
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EU Parliament amends assisted living project
Members of the European Parliament have stressed that the new Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme must be cost effective and respect privacy. The AAL programme is an initiative by the European Parliament to improve the quality of life of older people and help them live independently for longer, through the use of ICT. It is […]
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Medway and Frimley Park choose EuroKing
Medway NHS Trust and the Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have chosen EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system to improve care of mothers and their babies. The two deals are the latest in the busy maternity information systems market, where a growing number of NHS trusts are procuring maternity systems. EuroKing Miracle will supply […]
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Choose and Book to list private hospitals
The next version of Choose and Book software will list all available hospitals, regardless of whether they are public or private, based on how far away from the patient they are. The changes are intended to increase patient awareness of private hospital appointments open to them. From April the updated Choose and Book software will […]
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Practices use of 0844 numbers to be investigated
The government is to gather evidence about the use of 0844 telephone numbers by GP practices and its impact on patients, ahead of a possible clampdown on their use. Health minister Ivan Lewis told a House of Commons debate that GPs making use of 0844 numbers should consider whether it is “best professional practice” to […]
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