Gloucestershire adopts MSoft’s blood tracking
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has implemented MSoft’s blood tracking solution to provide tracking and accountability for all transfusions. The first phase of the project, code named ‘Bloodhound’ by the trust, has already gone live in the haematology and oncology units serving both Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The system interfaces with the trust’s […]
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Salzburg hospitals implement Agfa
The main hospital group in the Salzburg region of Austria, Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK), has implemented a new Hospital Information System (HIS) and a new Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS), both supplied by Agfa Healthcare. Agfa has provided the hospital group with its Orbis HIS and Impax PACS solutions. Following 18 months of preparatory work, […]
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CfH pushing for data standard in GP contract
Connecting for Health wants data standards for GPs to be included in the nGMS contract from next year. Negotiations on revisions to the contract for 2008 have begun and CfH has asked the Department of Health and NHS Employers to include data standards into any revised agreement. GPs can currently be rewarded for meeting data […]
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MPs say EPRs essential but delivery in doubt
Electronic patient record systems are vital to the future of healthcare in England, but there remain big questions and concerns…
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NHS ICT spend set to hit £2.9bn
The total spend on Information and Communications Technology in the NHS is set to hit £2.9bn in 2007/8 according to figures contained in a new report on NHS investment for the King’s Fund. Our Future Health Secured, authored by ex-NatWest boss Sir Derek Wanless, states that ICT spending in the NHS, combining both local and […]
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Community pharmacists to get NHSmail
Community pharmacists in England are to get access to NHSmail for the first time from the beginning of 2008. Until now the 10,000 community pharmacists in England have not been able to use NHSmail to securely exchange data with NHS colleagues by email, though it has been available to their counterparts in NHS Scotland. C&W, […]
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RCP launches generic record-keeping standards
New standards for generic medical reporting have been developed by the Royal College of Physicians health informatics unit (HIU) and supported by NHS Connecting for Health. The college says that the purpose of the standards is to maximise patient safety and quality of care, support professional best practice and assist compliance with information governance and NHS […]
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Vote for your Healthcare ICT Champion
The search is on for your Healthcare ICT Champion of 2007. This special category of the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2007, sponsored by Microsoft, invites readers to vote for the individual they see as being most worthy of the title. Nominations were invited earlier this year and six people agreed to let their names go […]
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Wanless warns NPfIT risking NHS modernisation
In a review of NHS modernisation efforts Sir Derek Wanless has criticised the slow progress of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and called for an audit of the programme to ensure it supports wider health service modernisation. The report warns that considerable challenges lie ahead in modernising NHS IT systems and says there is "continuing […]
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Practices urged to decide on systems by year end
Connecting for Health (CfH) wants all GP practices in England to decide whether they want to stick with their existing IT system or switch to another clinical system supplier by the end of the year. The IT agency announced on Friday that it had signed agreements with five of the eight suppliers who are taking […]
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