Minister praises NHS 24’s ‘tireless’ staff
Scotland’s deputy health minister has praised staff who keep the healthcare telephone advice line running over Christmas and the New Year and appealed to the public to use the service responsibly. Lewis Macdonald paid tribute to the tireless work of front-line health staff over the festive season in advance of a visit to NHS 24’s […]
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Oasis helps cut surgery waits in Surrey
The Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford says its 12 operating theatre suites are now running at over 90 per cent available capacity, after the successful implementation of a Capula Healthcare system. The 90 per cent figure has been achieved by a combination of the accuracy of the data on its Oasis patient administration system […]
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Northern Ireland to invest in telehealth
Northern Ireland health minister, Paul Goggins, has announced a £1m investment in telehealth and telemedicine initiatives across the country. The announcement follows a telehealth seminar in Northern Ireland, hosted by the Belfast Boston Connection earlier this month. Goggins said: “We live in remarkable times and we have technologies that have the potential to bring […]
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High-tech radios rollout for ambulances in 2007
A new radio system to be installed by all NHS ambulance trusts in England beginning in early 2007 will offer interoperability with other emergency services and better coverage in rural areas, the Department of Health said today. Ambulance trusts have chosen to implement radio terminals provided by Sepura which will operate on the O2/Airwave network, […]
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i-Contact aims to combat missed appointments
A new web-based communications engine called i-Contact has been developed to help GPs combat the problem of missed appointments. The i-Contact system, from communications specialists Data SMS, is a two-way communications tool allowing surgeries to text patients or leave voicemail messages on their mobiles reminding them of their appointments. It also allows patients to leave […]
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iPod access to health records launched in US
New software called HealthFrame 2.1 has been launched in the US allowing patients to access their personal health records using an iPod. HealthFrame is described as a software system designed to permanently record, organise and help users, and those to whom they permit access, to understand their personal health more easily and completely. Suppliers, Records for Living […]
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Practice data controller jailed for record tampering
A data administrator at a North London medical centre has been jailed for tampering with records using the practice’s computer system to receive extra payments from the NHS. Vinod Thapar, 62, of Fairgreen, Cockfosters, admitted four accounts of altering medical records and obtaining property by deception after falsifying contracts at the Silver Street Medical Centre, Edmonton. […]
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2006 – a curate’s egg for Connecting for Health
E-Health Insider cuts through the statistics to offer a snapshot of progress on ongoing efforts to digitise the NHS in England. Whatever happened to the NHS Care Record Service? 2006 may well be seen as the year Connecting for Health (CfH) and its prime contractors failed to deliver on their promise of next generation integrated […]
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NHS staff to be first for Office 2007
NHS employees are set to become some of the first people in the UK to get copies of Microsoft Office 2007 when it ships early next year. Thanks to the Home User Scheme of the NHS’s Enterprise Wide Agreement with Microsoft, health service employees will only have to pay a fraction of the standard price […]
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ScriptSwitch partner with First DataBank on Multilex
A new partnership will enable the implementation of First Data Bank’s Multilex Drug Datafile into ScriptSwitch’s real-time prescribing decision support software for primary care organisations. ScriptSwitch is a software package developed in partnership with the NHS which sets out to improve clinical excellence by supporting the prescriber. It delivers concise medicines management guidelines at the […]
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