FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system. Siemens and FDBE have already worked together in America, and will now collaborate to integrate the decision support system into the UK version of Soarian. Siemens’ IT solutions business […]
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Consider ethical issues of care record, MDU advises
GPs need to consider going beyond implied consent before allowing patient information to be uploaded to the spine, according to a medical defence body. The Medical Defence Union has issued new guidance on the Summary Care Record which highlights GPs’ ethical duties. It points out that guidance to GPs from the Department of Health only […]
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Central Surrey use telemedicine to tackle COPD
Central Surrey Health NHS Trust have shown that using telemedicine as support for treating patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) can bring benefits to both patients and nurses by allowing close, accurate and easy monitoring, potentially leading to earlier discharges. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate, Julia Davey, community respiratory nurse specialist […]
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Cerner deal signed to aid 18 week wait target
Healthcare information technology specialist, Cerner, will be helping trusts in North-west and South-west England to meet the government target for a maximum 18 week wait from GP referral to treatment. The US-based firm has been awarded two contracts for an integrated solution to support diagnostic imaging services based on Cerner’s PAS (patient administration system) and RIS/PACS […]
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Dr Glyn Hayes receives lifetime achievement award
GP, Dr Glyn Hayes has been awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Health Informatics Forum of the British Computer Society, becoming the third person ever receive the accolade. Announcing the award on Wednesday Professor Stephen Kay, chairman of the BCS Healthcare Computing Conference Committee, said that Dr Hayes "has been one of the major […]
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Call to use more everyday technology in health
Healthcare should embrace everyday technologies and challenge clinical boundaries by using them, a senior academic told the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate. Dr Jonathan Kay, a professor of health informatics at the City University, London, said that healthcare was too afraid of most everyday technologies but their success as external commodities could easily be applied […]
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Framework sets out plan for joined up IT
The government has set out a radical plan for joining up health and social care IT systems and sharing information about individuals and communities across services. The Commissioning Framework for Health and Wellbeing, now out for consultation from the Department of Health and the Department for Communities and Local Government, says councils, PCTs and practice […]
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Minister to look at C+B issue with ‘sensitive’ patients
Patients who withhold their names and addresses to protect their personal safety are being ‘disenfranchised’ from the NHS when their local hospitals accept only Choose and Book referrals, a GP told Healthcare Computing 2007. Dr Mary Hawking, a Bedford GP, explained to health minister, Lord Hunt, that the electronic referral system would not take patients […]
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NPfIT ‘needs re-evaluating to be a success’
Connecting for Health must look at three key things – scalability, complexity and availability if the National Programme for Information Technology is to be a success, according to a panel of industry professionals. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing 2007 conference in Harrogate, the panel said that the size and complexity of the NPfIT programme had […]
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Blair says information vital for ‘personalised’ services
While suppliers and health IT professionals gathered in Harrogate this week in London Prime Minister Tony Blair set out the central role that information and technology must play in re-shaping public services. On monday the Prime Minister called for "truly personalised" services, with citizens provided with the information and power needed to choose a hospital […]
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