Staffordshire PCTs hit retinopathy target
Malcolm Gray screens patient Three Staffordshire primary care trusts have managed to meet national targets and screen over 28,000 patients in a year for diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness if left untreated. The Staffordshire Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service, run on behalf of South Staffordshire, North Staffordshire and Stoke on […]
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Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has begun piloting iSoft’s iCM clinical management system on two wards, five years after they signed a ten-year deal with the supplier. The trust first signed a contract with iSoft in October 2002, just before the National Programme for IT began in earnest and have been sporadically working on implementing […]
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Ireland to invest Euros 500m in e-health
The Irish Government will commit almost half a billion Euros of investment to e-health when it publishes its National Development Plan for health.
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Patientline reverses on patient call charges
Patientline, the hospital entertainment and phone provider, will reduce the prices on outgoing telephone calls from tomorrow, just four months after they increased rates. The company was forced to restructure its fees in April, when they revealed they were £80m in debt and needed to make up expenditure costs. This was followed in June, with […]
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Norwegian 24-hour telephone advice launched
Norway’s Norsk Helse Telefon 24 (NHT24) a private provider of telephone triage services to Norway and other Scandinavian countries has chosen Clinical Solutions to provide the software behind its telephone health advice service. NHT24 was launched in June, offering subscription-based telephone advice services to people living in Scandinavian countries. "NHT24 is entirely a private […]
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EMIS deal for London on cards
Primary care system supplier EMIS looks likely to be included as part of the local service provider solution for London. GP practices in London will have the option of INPS’s Vision 4 or EMIS, subject to the conclusion of contract negotiations. Kevin Jarrold, director of the London Programme for IT (LPfIT) and chief information officer […]
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Granger had team ready to take over Lorenzo
Connecting for Health in June had a team on stand-by in India in June ready to take over iSoft if it was unable to agree terms with Computer Sciences Corporation that would allow it to be bought by a rival. The confirmation that a rescue team for iSoft’s Lorenzo software had been set up by […]
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Patient survey results to be added to NHS Choices
The Department of Health is to add patient survey results to GP practices’ listings on the primary care section of the NHS Choices website. GPs will also be able to update their own surgery details on the site following criticism that the DH’s new flagship website contains out-of-date and inaccurate information on GP practices. A […]
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Mid-Essex integrates systems in just 4 weeks
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust has successfully installed an enterprise integration engine able to support interfaces in multiple medical terminologies. While integration engines can typically take three months to implement the trust was able to complete its installation of Ensemble in just four weeks. The InterSystems Ensemble interface engine will provide trust-level integration for […]
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German health IT fair splits
One of the two main German trade fairs for information technology in healthcare, the ITeG appeared to be in disarray at the end of last week. Trade fair organizer, Mesago, and the leading German industrial association for health-IT, VHitG, have decided to go separate ways after a difference of views about the future of […]
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