IBM to develop pandemic software with WHO
IBM’s research division has announced that they are to collaborate with the World Health Organisation in supplying software to help combat and predict pandemics. IBM have promised to develop two systems; an Interoperable Healthcare Information Infrastructure – a technology to help clinicians and researchers share information and health data on infectious diseases. Big Blue will […]
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Senior GPs say CfH response on security ‘encouraging’
The two senior GP representatives in the UK are writing to GP practices to outline “the encouraging response” they have received from Connecting for Health (CfH) over concerns about security issues with the personal demographic service (PDS). The letter from Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s GP committee and Dr Mayur Lakhani, […]
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iSoft sells off Swiss operations
Health IT software firm iSoft has sold its operations in Switzerland to Nexus, a local provider of healthcare IT solutions, for £2.25m Swiss Francs (£1m). The Manchester-based company says the move will enable it to "focus on other priorities in the short term". The most pressing of these priorities is delivering its late-running next generation […]
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Online medicines library gets revamp
The National electronic Library for Medicine, which collects online news and RSS feeds on medicines information, is set to expand into a personalised portal, featuring both regional and national medicines news. The NeLM, which was first launched under the title DrugInfoZone is funded by the National electronic Library for Health. The site sifts and collates […]
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Boots selects Spinal Tap for prescriptions
Boots has announced that it is to use Quicksilva’s Spinal Tap integration software, on top of the company’s existing Smartscript solution, to allow its branches with dispensing pharmacies to receive electronic transfers of prescriptions (ETP) under the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Quicksilva will be providing both its software and consultancy expertise so that […]
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Morecambe Bay goes live with PAS from CSC
Three sites in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have gone live with an iSoft patient administration system (PAS) that includes, for the first time, the A&E administration module from iSoft’s Lorenzo reference solution. CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands, installed the system in a ‘big bang’ implementation, […]
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Choose and Book fails on air
Enthusiasts and sceptics among the GP community had their say about Choose and Book on a BBC investigation of the national e-booking system last night and one user had the embarrassing experience of taking the presenter through a booking that failed. Dr Andrew Langton a GP in Avon who has carried on using Choose and […]
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Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients
Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking project launched ahead of the national NHS Care Records Service. The Clinical Data Repository (CDR) set up by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority has gone live this month with GP records for […]
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June Choose and Book target ‘impossible’ in London
The GP incentive scheme target for 25% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book in June appears to be “impossible to achieve” according to London GP representatives who are lobbying for a review of the deadline. The London-wide Local Medical Committee has written to Kevin Jarrold, regional implementation director for the London cluster […]
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EMIS software now tracks kidney disease risk
EMIS have developed an upgrade to their PCS and LV general practice record software that trawls records to identify patients at risk of chronic kidney disease, in response to a user request. Staffordshire GP Dai Evans asked EMIS to develop the add-on after he realised he had to manually trawl through records to find patients […]
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