ExtraMed secure £500,000 investment
Scottish based healthcare IT software developers ExtraMed have secured £500,000 of investment to further develop products for the NHS market. The Falkirk-based company specialise in developing and implementing innovative hospital and patient management systems and have secured an investment package including £250,000 from the Sigma Innovation Fund, £100,000 from Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Seed Fund and […]
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Electronic referrals lack detail, study warns
A study comparing the quality of data content and clinical value of electronic and paper referrals in dermatology has found that electronic patient referrals contain less detailed information about a patient’s condition than paper referrals. Writing for the British Journal of General Practice, Dr Lindsay Shaw, a dermatology specialist registrar and Dr David Berker, a […]
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Agreement reached on CHIA replacement
Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution for child health, on condition BT meets a series of risk mitigation requirements by August. The decision means that some of the PCTs may have to continue using the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) for […]
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Over 21000 patients search QoF data
Patients have carried out more than 21,000 searches of GP practice data from the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) in the last six months. QoF data for England has been available for patients to search since September via a patient-friendly site produced by the Information Centre (IC). The site enables patients to access their own […]
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UN warning on rogue internet pharmacies
Unregulated internet pharmacies are posing a high risk to patients, according to the United Nation’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB). In its 2006 annual report titled ‘Internationally controlled drugs and the unregulated market’ the board warns that the risks involved in buying a medicinal product through an illegal internet pharmacy are high and websites facilitating […]
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda
Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in the recovering US city of New Orleans, Neil Versel writes. An Accenture study released at the start of last week’s meeting suggested that two-thirds of Americans consider electronic health […]
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Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out
Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly when a patient goes home. The hospitals’ newly-installed Info-flex system from Chameleon Information Management Services (CIMS) collects the relevant clinical data and produces a discharge summary. The summary is sent electronically via the Anglia Healthcare messaging […]
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NHS Direct promotes TV advice in magazines
NHS Direct has launched a month-long advertising campaign to make ‘shy young men and mums with children’ aware of their interactive digital television health information service. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness amongst these target audiences through advertisements in magazines and tabloid newspapers that the interactive service can provide answers to common […]
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Junior doctors say training website is in ‘pandemonium’
The new web-based Medical Training Application System (MTAS) used to recruit junior doctors has ‘descended into pandemonium’, according to the British Medical Association. The new website was created by the Department for Health under the new ‘Modernising Medical Careers’ scheme where junior doctors enter a two year foundation programme before entering specialist training posts. It […]
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IBA chief exec says iSoft remains target
Gary Cohen, chief executive of Australia’s IBA Health, has backed recent restructuring at iSoft as the company continues takeover talks with the British medical software developer at the heart of the £12.4bn NHS IT programme. In an interview with The Australian newspaper, Cohen said that although restricted in what he could say by British takeover […]
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