Handwritten paperwork “causes delays”
GPs spend too long filling in paperwork by hand, decreasing the amount of time they spend with patients, a survey by software developers Codegate and Zebra Technologies has found. Fifty practice managers were contacted at events across the UK and half of them said handwritten forms caused delays in test diagnosis. Two fifths also said […]
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Nuffield aims for ‘paperless’ hospital finance
Nuffield hospitals, the UK independent hospitals group, has signed a contract with document management specialists Version One to implement its electronic form design, automated document delivery and electronic payment technologies across its 40 hospitals. The Version One software will replace Nuffield’s current manual processes, which involves signing and posting cheques with hard-copy remittance advices, and […]
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BMA issues new guidance on NHS CRS
The BMA Chairman has written to all BMA members to provide them with guidance on the NHS Care Records Service and outlining what it means for doctors and their patients. Although Connecting for Health is due to begin an expensive public information campaign, the BMA says it believes that patients should be made aware now […]
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INPS surgeries to use iPlato text messaging
Primary care software supplier INPS has announced that surgeries across England that use its software will also have the opportunity to use iPlato’s patient alert text messaging system, thanks to a strategic alliance between the two companies. The Vision SMS system, which incorporates iPlato’s patient care text messaging system into INPS’s general practice software, is to be used by a number […]
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QMS to ditch IDX for Cerner in 2007
Queen Mary Sidcup (QMS), the only London trust to have received a new hospital IT system under the NHS computerisation scheme, will now have to replace it less than a year after the system became fully operational. QMS first switched on IDX’s Carecast system after a fraught implementation in November 2005, but it has taken until […]
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NHS Supply Chain uses voice to monitor stock
NHS Supply Chain, the privatised NHS logistics service now run by DHL, has signed a deal with voice recognition specialists VoiteQ for a voice picking system so that staff can use their voices to confirm stock movements through wearable computers. NHS Supply Chain has installed the Vocollect Voice system in its Alfreton distribution centre. Staff now […]
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McKesson buys Per-Se
US health IT giant McKesson Corporation has announced an agreement to buy health administration transaction IT specialist Per-Se for £1bn ($1.8bn). San Francisco-based McKesson says that the acquisition of Per Se announced last week forms part of its ongoing strategy to strengthen its position as an industry leader providing clinical, financial and administrative systems to […]
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Premium-rate doctor helpline aimed at busy people
A premium rate telephone service has been set up that allows callers to talk directly to a doctor 24 hours a day without having to speak with receptionists or waiting for a call back. Talk to a Doctor is accessible either through a 24hr 0900 number, or through a freephone number and a £29.95 credit […]
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DH carrying out ‘confidential’ review of CfH
E-Health Insider has learned that an urgent ‘confidential’ review of the NHS IT programme and structure of Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for its delivery, has been launched by the new chief executive of the NHS David Nicholson. The new boss of the health service has commissioned a review of the £6.2bn NHS digitisation […]
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Euroking’s new maternity goes live at Heart of England
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital trust to go live with EuroKing Miracle’s E3 third generation Maternity Information System. The foundation trust, which is one of the largest in the UK, went live with the upgrade to the Miracle MIS at its two major sites, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals, […]
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