Wigan Council adopts NHS number as unique ID
Wigan Council has become one of the first English councils to connect health to social care services information after linking to the NHS Spine and adopting the NHS number as its unique identifier for all clients. The project represents a significant improvement in patient safety, reducing data duplication, confusion cases and the fragmentation of care […]
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‘Interop’ solution joins up labels and orders
ICE Desktop Test Requesting Screen (click to enlarge) Healthcare organisations that use Anglia Healthcare System’s ICE Desktop software to provide electronic messaging services will be able to process order requests and print specimen labels faster following a new collaboration with labelling specialists, QuickTrace. The companies have worked together on a specially-designed, interoperable version of QuickTrace’s labelling solution, […]
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Finalists named for BT e-Health Insider Awards
After careful deliberation finalists for five of the categories in the prestigious BT e-Health Insider Awards were chosen last week following presentations over two days to the judges. The winners’ names remain strictly under wraps, however. The 15 finalists – three in each category – will be invited to the glittering awards ceremony in London […]
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Conference to focus on patient-controlled records
Patient controlled records will be the focus of the British Computer Society’s Primary Health Care Specialist Group annual conference next week. The PHCSG says the idea that a patient’s health record should be held by a trusted third party, chosen by the patient and then shared with those care providers with whom the patient chooses […]
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Practices told to update own NHS Choices details
The Department of Health says it is trying to improve the accuracy of primary care information on its flagship NHS Choices website to more than 90% but plans to get GP practices to update their own details in future. The multi-million pound website, developed by healthcare information firm Dr Foster Intelligence together with LBi and […]
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CSAM says portals the key to hospital integration
Oslo’s national Rlkshospitalet CSAM, a Norwegian specialist in hospital systems integration using portal technology, has announced plans for ambitious international growth. Already the company has installations in Norway, Denmark and China, with the system translated into local languages. CSAM is now gearing up for a push into new markets, and is busily targeting Russian and […]
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Medway bans Facebook use in work hours
Staff at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent, have been banned from using social networking website Facebook during working hours. The trust says the move is aimed at monitoring internet usage and optimising efficiency, denying reports the website was responsible for slowing down the hospital’s computer systems. Andy Horne, chief executive at Medway […]
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Stolen laptop prompts security reminder
GP practices have been reminded of their responsibilities for patient information following the theft of a practice laptop from a GP’s home. A laptop belonging to Dunstan Medical Centre in Bolton, containing patient data, was stolen from the home of partner Dr Thomas Lynch during a burglary this summer. Following the theft the practice wrote […]
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‘No alternative’ to MTAS system likely for 2008
Remedy UK, the group set up in the wake of the junior doctors’ job crisis earlier this year, has called for a return to a paper-based, local system for the 2008 round of recruitment to training posts. But the BMA has warned that there may be no alternative but to use the widely discredited MTAS […]
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Jersey prepares way to integrated records
Jersey Health and Social Services have chosen InterSystem’s Caché and Ensemble software to make systems integration and reporting processes faster. The department was forced to review its infrastructure after its existing 20-year-old legacy system was becoming obsolete and no longer able to meet hospital requirements. Jersey’s risk manager, Paul Patterson, told E-Health Europe: “Our existing […]
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