Suspended iSoft co-founder removed from board
Co-founder of iSoft, Steve Graham, who was suspended from his post as commercial director in August last year after an initial investigation into accounting irregularities, has been removed from his place on the board. An announcement from the troubled healthcare IT software firm yesterday, said: “The company is today announcing that Steve Graham has been […]
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Dudley nurses use workflow software to cut paperwork
Nurses at the Dudley Hospitals in the West Midlands are using Siemens’ embedded workflow engine, Soarian, to sort their nursing documentation and their work lists electronically. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference, Sarah Gibson-Jones, the EPR clinical project lead at the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, said that the trust felt a need to […]
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Patient access to records ‘can bring benefits to PCTs’
Patient access to records can help primary care trusts meet their fitness for purpose targets, the Healthcare Computing conference heard. Colin Cohen, head of informatics at Tameside and Glossop PCT which has been involved in pioneering work on record access, told the conference about the benefits of allowing patients to view their records. He said: […]
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Initial sites wanted for the next phase of EPS
NHS Connecting for Health is recruiting primary care trusts to be initial implementation sites for release two of the electronic prescription service. Release two will deliver digital signatures for prescriptions, enable patients to nominate pharmacies, improve electronic repeat dispensing processes and enable GPs to cancel a prescription at any time up until the medication is […]
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NPfIT is a ‘high quality enabler’ says NHS chief
NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has described the National Programme for Information Technology as “not fundamentally an IT programme, but a high quality enabler that will improve the way the NHS system operates.” Addressing the World Health Care Congress in Barcelona, Nicholson said that “really good progress has been made on NPfIT to date, but […]
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Isle of Man chooses System C for major contract
System C has won a £7.5m contract to provide an integrated island-wide healthcare IT service in the Isle of Man. The contract was won against stiff competition with senior sources confirming reports that iSoft and Cerner, contractors to provide systems for the NHS in England, were in the running. Nobles Hospital in Douglas and the […]
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Funding for data accreditation must be a priority
Strategic health authorities have been instructed to make support for GP practice data accreditation a priority, the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate heard after a GP raised problems about funding for the initiative. Dr Mary Hawking, a GP in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, told the conference that Bedfordshire had 93 practices but no facilitators from the data […]
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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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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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