Disk imaging for largest NI community trust
The largest community trust in Northern Ireland, Homefirst Community Health and Social Services Trust, has installed the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) software distribution system from Big Bang LLC. Homefirst, which covers 100 health and social care facilities, 300,000 people and employs 5000 staff, installed the software to make it easier to distribute patches and updates […]
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EMIS offers GP record transfer by CD
All EMIS LV practices in England can now transfer full patient records between practices using a CD, ahead of the arrival of the national GP2GP record transfer project. The project was started by St Albans & Harpenden, and Hertsmere PCTs, (now merged into part of West Herts PCT) which set up a system last March […]
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More delays likely in PAS rollout, says Granger
A combination of the NHS’s financial troubles and problems with software, means that the installation of new patient administration systems in hospitals is likely to be further delayed, Connecting for Health chief executive, Richard Granger says in an interview. He admits that London’s local service provider, BT, is having difficulties finding any hospital in the […]
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Neonatal ‘cot locator’ launched
A new software system to help find the nearest hospital cot for critically ill newborn babies has been launched by the Department of Health. The National Cot Locator was launched by health minister, Ivan Lewis, at the Princess of Wales Women’s Unit in Birmingham Heartlands Hospital today. The government-funded system was ‘developed by clinical and […]
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Plans for children’s databases criticised
Government plans for children’s databases could end up putting children at increased risk by diverting resources away from frontline services and are already breaking data protection and privacy laws according to a report ordered by the Information Commissioner. The report, Children’s Databases – Safety and Privacy, written by the Foundation for Information Policy and Research […]
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Ideal acquires Deverill’s NHS IT training
Ideal Training has acquired the NHS training division of Deverill, which holds a major contract in the London region. Deverill was awarded a five year contract in January to provide experienced care records systems trainers to support the delivery of end user application training for the capital’s 31 primary care trusts, 32 acute trusts and […]
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Birmingham PCT extends electronic incident reporting
Birmingham East and North PCT has contracted with risk management systems developers Vantage Technologies to implement its web-based Sentinel reporting software. Sentinel is a risk management tool which has enabled Birmingham East and North (BEN) PCT to record and manage incidents more effectively and conveniently, and also provides the data for analysis to help identify incident […]
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Fair Deal on Broadband: BT responds
When E-Health Insider Primary Care launched Fair Deal on Broadband, we asked BT to give its perspective on the issues raised and the particular problems encountered on the ground in primary care. Here is the company’s response, in full, sent by a BT spokesperson: N3 is the enabling infrastructure that underpins the national applications being […]
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Ascribe trials medicine management in Manchester
A new electronic medicines management solution, developed by software provider Ascribe, is being trialled at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The software allows medicines prescribed from the patient’s bedside to be automatically screened and recorded, then ordered and dispensed from the hospital pharmacy, which also runs Ascribe software. Mark Hindle, group project manager at Ascribe, told […]
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Scotland’s NHS in the dark on IM&T spend
The NHS in Scotland does not know exactly how much it spends on IM&T overall, according to a major report from public spending watchdog Audit Scotland. In a key recommendation, the report says the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) needs to improve the way it funds IM&T programmes in future by developing business cases, and […]
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