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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Funding axed for ambulance IT system
Urgent talks are underway to save a computerised capacity and activity monitoring system (CAMS) used to direct ambulances to hospitals best placed to deal with patients after PCTs in the East of England SHA withdrew their funding. The East Anglian Ambulance Trust and acute trusts across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire are in last minute talks […]
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More teamwork needed to make PBC a reality
A report by an independent steering group of experts from the NHS, supported by Dr Foster Intelligence has called for more teamwork between PCTs and GPs to make practice-based commissioning (PBC) a reality. The group was unanimous that the successful implementation of PBC is a pre-requisite to the modernisation of the NHS. But the accurate, real-time […]
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Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’
Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final stages of being drawn up by Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider understands that the supplier catalogue plans being drawn up may cover […]
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Tunstall help Brighton extra care housing win EU award
Telecare specialists Tunstall has helped an extra care housing scheme in Brighton win a European design award, aimed at promoting independent living. Tunstall deployed their Comunicall telecare system into the £3m New Larchwood extra care housing scheme, which is run by the Hanover Housing Association, and was developed with Brighton and Hove City Council. Communicall […]
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Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner
Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with a Cerner patient administration system supplied by local service provider Fujitsu as part of the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. In addition to the acute trust the system has gone live into community hospitals […]
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Five trusts sign up for e-rostering software
Five NHS trusts and a private hospital group are set to adopt Manpower Software’s MAPS Healthroster system which is designed to ease the staffing issues at hospitals and trusts and help to control costs. Manpower says the MAPS solution has been designed for, and in partnership with, the NHS and healthcare market. It aims to deliver verified […]
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Summary care records planned for end of 2008
Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end of 2008. Guidance prepared by CfH for strategic health authorities makes it clear that the Clinical Summary Record will be implemented in two phases. Phase one, due to begin by Easter, will consist of an […]
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Scottish GPs to start issuing barcoded scrips
Scotland’s electronic transmission of prescriptions project is to get underway in April when GP practices will begin to produce barcoded prescriptions for almost all prescribing. By the end of the next financial year Scotland aims to have fully implemented ETP via its eAcute Medication Service (eAMS) and implemented repeat dispensing through its eChronic Medication Service […]
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Trafford enables GPs and hospitals to share EPR
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has developed a new electronic patient record system with assistance from software developers, Graphnet Health, and booking specialists, Ultragenda. The new system collects and shares information across the local health community and works alongside the trusts’ existing iSoft Patient Administration System. Trafford’s head of IM&T, John Bain, told E-Health Insider: “We […]
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