QoF: measuring performance, missing the point
Mechanistic management strategies – embedded into computer software – become fixed and static presenting the danger that innovation will be stifled, according to a critical analysis of the Quality Outcomes Framework (QoF) for measuring GP performance. The analysis of QoF, published in the BMJ, was completed by an influential team of researchers: GP, Iona Heath; Professor […]
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Dudley rolls out digital dictation
The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is to deploy WinScribe digital dictation across the trust in a bid to reduce document turnaround times and improve efficiencies. Working with healthcare digital dictation and speech recognition solutions specialists SRC, over 350 users at the trust will be given the new equipment and full training before the […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 23.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 23 November, featuring supplier news, events, and awards. Supplier News BT looks at Middle East opportunities to expand health business BT’s International Health Advisory Board is meeting senior members of the Qatar business community and representatives of government organisations to discuss e-health business opportunities in […]
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Warning on internet STI treatments
People with sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are putting themselves at risk by buying treatments over the internet, according to research by the University of East Anglia. In a study of 77 treatments, found through search engine results, fewer than a quarter of internet vendors gave information on potential side effects of their treatments. Most also failed to […]
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Use IT more to promote safety, says WHO
The World Health Organisation has called on health bodies to use IT more for data collection in healthcare settings to promote safety and reduce adverse events. The call for action is one of ten points raised at the recent Patient Safety Research conference in Porto, Portugal – organised by the World Health Organisation (WHO)’s World […]
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BT’s contract reset completed
BT has confirmed that it is ‘well underway’ with its ‘best of breed’ approach, after completing contract renegotiations with Connecting for Health in the summer. A BT spokesperson confirmed to E-Health Insider that the transition had been made ‘some time ago’, but was unable to say exactly when the transition was made. BT Health’s managing […]
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EMIS supplies white label software for pilot
GP system supplier, Emis is supporting a key part of Wales’ Informing Healthcare programme by providing the company’s software on a ‘white label’ basis for the first time. My Health Online – the new health website for Wales – is using software designed by Emis to facilitate the trial of new patient services such as […]
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Major trial of PHRs starts in Germany
Germany’s largest health insurance fund, Barmer, is working with InterComponentWare AG (ICW) on a three year research study looking at the benefits and acceptance of personal health records. Barmer will use ICW’s web-based LifeSensor technology to offer a personal health record to its seven million members at a cost of 23.80 Euros per individual per year, […]
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Interface issues delay Salisbury iPM deployment
Salisbury Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of the ‘Southern Seven’ sites controlled by CSC, was forced to postpone deployment of its new iSoft iPM patient administration system, due to a printer problem which delayed the start-up of computers by up to two minutes. The trust was due to go live on the weekend of 10-11 November, […]
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Health records a target for ‘the wicked’
Richard Jeavons, senior responsible owner for service implementation at Connecting for Health has admitted to the Commons Home Affairs Committee that the NHS Care Records Service database is open to misuse by “the wicked”. Given evidence to the committee, as part of their inquiry into ‘A Surveillance Society’, Jeavons, who is also director of IT […]
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