Cerner confident of delivery in the South
Leading NHS clinical software supplier Cerner Corporation announced last week that it was on track to deliver in the Southern region of the NHS having had a successful go live within four months of signing a contract with Fujitsu. During the course of 2006 Cerner predicted that revenues from the Fujitsu Alliance local service provider […]
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Manchester hospitals link up with GPs
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically exchanged between hospitals and GP practices, providing overnight delivery of patient discharge information when they leave hospital. Using software from clinical correspondence specialists Medisec, the system provides electronic links will be used between all the […]
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Nursing engagement ‘could become a risk’
Communication with nurses affected by new IT implementations is an issue and will become a risk without appropriate action, IT professionals have been warned. Bernice Baker a nursing lecturer at Bournemouth University and co-founder of the e-health nurses network called for a strategic approach to bringing nurses into IT change programmes. The benefits would be […]
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Demographic service poses security risk, say senior GPs
The two most senior GP representatives in England have written to Connecting for Health to demand reassurances on patient confidentiality after it emerged that non-clinical staff can access and change patient details held on the personal demographics service. Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee and Dr Mayur Lakhani, chairman […]
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Egton and Brother to offer extended warranties
Egton and Brother have started to offer extended technical support to their products in what they are calling an industry first. The new Healthcare Support Packs will offer a three-year extended warranty and telephone support during office hours five days per week for all Brother products sold through Egton. The warranty also includes on-site repair […]
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Texting reduces treatment times for STIs
A six-month study into the effect of text messaging in an STI clinic has revealed that sending notifications by SMS significantly reduces time to treatment and staff workload. Patients who were tested for Chlamydia at the John Hunter clinic at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in central London were notified by SMS of their results […]
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Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire
Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK, has announced that he will retire this summer. In 1997, Burns was seconded by the Department of Health for 15 months as head of information management and technology at the NHS Executive with a remit to […]
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NHS primary care director to take questions online today
The Department of Health’s national clinical director for Primary Care, Dr David Colin-Thome, will be online at 17.30 on Monday 6 February to answer questions about the new care outside hospital White Paper, ‘Our health, our care, our say’ Dr Colin-Thome will be available online to answer questions on any aspect of the white paper […]
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Hospital admissions predictive software updated
A new version of predictive risk software to help identify patients most at risk of emergency hospital admissions has been released with added features and a faster running time. The software, Patients at Risk of Re-hospitalisation+ (PARR+) allows primary care trusts and practices to work out who is most at risk of admission to hospital […]
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Sheffield children’s trust takes Strand for mental health
Sheffield Children’s Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the UK’s largest providers of child and adolescent mental health services has signed an agreement for a new electronic care record system provided by Strand Technology. The trust has awarded a contract to Strand Technology for its CareNotes electronic record system, which should help modernise the way staff […]
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