iSoft system leaves North Staffs unable to bill
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, one of the most indebted trusts in the country, is facing a potential £16m risk due to severe problems with a new electronic patient record system from iSoft, which have left it unable to code activity and recover income. The new system has left the trust, which already […]
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Europe’s citizens must be engaged on e-health
Efforts to increase the levels of ICT in healthcare will not succeed if average citizens are not involved in discourse about e-health policy, a key group of European informatics professionals is cautioning. The European Health Telematics Associatiuon (EHTEL) issued a paper and companion documents on patient safety and electronic health records at the first-ever World of Health […]
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EMIS links with Tiara9 for appointment booking
EMIS have announced they are to link their GP software to Ethical Technology (Ethitec)’s Tiara9 electronic patient record system for therapists. The partnership aims to deliver interoperability between the firms’ systems to help reduce waiting times for patients and improve clerical accuracy. Tiara9 is currently used by 30 NHS trusts, and EMIS GP systems by around […]
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Granger compares BMA to the National Union of Miners
NHS IT boss Richard Granger has compared the British Medical Association to the National Union of Mineworkers, describing the influential doctors’ trade union as a block to change in the NHS. His inflamatory comments came in a New Statesman-sponsored round table on IT modernisation, in which he spoke of obstacles to the late-running £12bn NHS IT project: […]
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Nuffield blames ‘weak’ HC rating on computer problems
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has blamed its relatively poor performance rating from the Healthcare Commission on the failures of a new computer system. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has been given a ‘good’ rating for the use of resources element and a ‘weak’ rating for the quality of services element of the Healthcare Commissions annual […]
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One in five trusts below standard on patient information
One in five NHS trusts in England do not store, use and dispose of information about patients to an agreed NHS standard. The deficit comes to light in the Healthcare Commission’s first annual health check on all 570 NHS trusts in England which was published yesterday. In the annual health check trusts are awarded ratings […]
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European hospitals comparatively advanced in ICT
European hospitals are quite well-equipped with basic information and communication technologies compared to nine other key sectors in the economy according to a new survey, European e-Business W@tch 2006. The 10-sector survey by research firm Empirica, which is due to be published in full at the end of the year, looked at 834 acute hospitals […]
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Healthcare Commission’s website opens up all NHS data
The Healthcare Commission is today launching a website to give NHS patients and the public access to its entire database on NHS trusts. The website accompanies the launch of the Commission’s annual health check results in which all of the 570 NHS trusts in England will be rated on their quality of services and the […]
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Redundancies may include IT staff says Coventry PCT
Coventry Teaching Primary Care Trust cannot guarantee that IT staff will be immune from redundancies following yesterday’s announcement confirming that up to 90 staff will be made redundant by the PCT. In a statement, the trust announced: “The likely redundancies will be across a range of areas and will include both primary and community care […]
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Plain Healthcare wins new WiC Contract
Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust (PCT) has awarded the contract for software for its new walk-in-centre to clinical decision specialists Plain Healthcare. The PCT opened its new £2m Walk-in Centre (WiC) in Eaglestone on July 4th and have opted for Plain’s FaceToFace Odyssey clinical decision support product to assess patients and decide on the urgency […]
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