Priory Group delivers e-learning over intranet
The Priory Group, providers of acute and secure mental healthcare, neuro-rehabilitation and specialist educational services, is to invest in e-learning for non-medical induction training for staff. The private healthcare group has also launched a new corporate intranet for its 5,000 staff in the UK, allowing them to undertake vital e-learning training they need for their day-to-day jobs. […]
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Intellect to launch telemedicine group
UK IT trade body Intellect has told E-Health Insider that it plans to start a dedicated telehealth group, following its participation in a US telemedicine conference. Representatives from the UK gave a presentation at the Boston Partners Telemedicine Annual Symposium, held at the Harvard Medical Centre on 18-19 September, promoting the British telehealth industry. The […]
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Urgent care IT improvement discussed
Seamless patching of voice and data information between urgent care providers and access to electronic patient records for everyone involved in urgent care are among the proposals in a Department of Health (DH) discussion document launched this week. The DH is seeking views on how urgent care services provided by a range of organisations such […]
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Mobile version of Clinical Evidence launched
The BMJ Publishing Group and US knowledge management systems developers, Unbound Medicine, have launched a new mobile resource which gives clinicians full clinical evidence notes from the BMJ Clinical Evidence database The device will help clinicians make evidence-based decisions at a patient’s bedside using a personal digital assistant (PDA), allowing them to quickly review the […]
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Milton Keynes’ Cerner implementation postponed
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust has had to postpone its implementation of a new Cerner Millennium patient administration system at just three days notice, citing the need for more time to fix software glitches. The trust does not yet have a new go-live date. The decision follows a similar last minute postponement of the project […]
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Danish GPs enjoy the best IT systems, says study
Denmark is the most advanced country in the world for clinical information technology systems in primary care, health informatics luminary Professor Denis Protti has stated. Danish GPs are used to sending one another clinical information over their secure network; over 90% of clinical communications are exchanged in this way. The study estimated only 41 GPs […]
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iSoft pulls back from the precipice
During the last few months iSoft has had a ‘near death experience’ the company’s chairman and acting chief executive, John Weston, has told EHI in an exclusive interview. Speaking as CSC prepares to replaced Accenture as local service provider in two NHS regions served by iSoft, Weston said that without CSC’s support the company might have failed, but the […]
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Granger says he wants ‘catalogue’ of additional suppliers
The boss of the NHS IT agency Connecting for Health (CfH) has said that he intends to create a catalogue of suppliers able to provide additional capacity and systems to help deliver the late-running £6bn National Programme for NHS IT. The intention appears to be to increase capacity and plug gaps in key specialist systems, […]
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EuroKing launches Miracle in Scotland
Maternity information systems suppliers EuroKing has partnered with bms (Scotland) Ltd in a bid to get the company’s Miracle system used more widely in Scotland following a recent NHS announcement changing the way maternity scans take place in the country. Scotland’s NHS Quality Improvement Board has recommended that by 2007 every pregnant woman in Scotland should be offered […]
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Specialist search engine for GPs launched
A new medical search engine for GPs called SearchMedica was launched yesterday by publishers CMPMedica, who publish the GP newspaper Pulse. The aim of the free search engine is to help GPs find medical information online, with search results linked directly to the keywords searched for. Lindsay Cook, managing director of CMP information’s specialist markets […]
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