E-Health Insider – the first 100 issues
As the E-Health Insider newsletter celebrates the 100th edition, we take the opportunity to look back over highlights of two years coverage of e-health. December 2001 – Tablets within two years In EHI No 1 we reported on a Microsoft-Department of Health conference at which Bill Gates and Alan Milburn set out the vital role of […]
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IBA to ask for review of OFT decision on iSoft Torex deal
Australian-based healthcare information systems supplier IBA announced this week that it intends to apply to the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal for a review of the decision of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) not to refer the proposed merger between iSoft Group Plc and Torex Plc to the Competition Committee. IBA says that it intends to lodge its […]
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Analysts speculate on LSP contract awards
A US market analyst report obtained by E-Health Insider predicts that clinical applications vendor Cerner will win two of the Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts about to be awarded by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), with two more going to iSoft, and one to IDX. Overall the 11 November SunTrust Robinson Humphrey document, suggests that […]
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US healthcare IT looks kinda familiar
In a second article on healthcare IT systems in America, Andrew Harrison reports from the 650-bed Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, a teaching hospital affiliated with New York University, where he finds that pizza plays an important role in clinical engagement… We tend to think of the US as being more advanced in […]
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Fraudster sentenced for selling old-for-new IT to NHS
The former managing director of a Yorkshire computer company has been sentenced to 180 hours community service for selling used computers to the NHS in place of new machines a trust had ordered. Gordon Rae Wallis of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, formerly managing director of Networking Solutions (UK) plc, denied obtaining a money transfer by […]
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Gloucestershire NHS staff get mobile access to EPR
One of the key issues facing local health communities is how to cost-effectively provide all staff with easy access to key clinical and administrative applications at the point of care. Gloucestershire Health Community has shown how community-based staff can be provided with easy access to key systems and electronic patient records over a very ‘thin […]
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ID cards on the way for healthcare entitlement
The government published plans published this week making clear that it wants to introduce identity cards which will be used eventually to establish entitlement to free healthcare and deter so-called health tourists. The Home Office plan, Identity Cards: the next steps, foresees the introduction of the health entitlement element of the scheme in the second phase […]
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Gershon says NHS national programme is inherently ‘risky’
Peter Gershon, chief executive of the Treasury’s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has described the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS as inherently risky and ambitious. The comments came as part of his oral evidence to the powerful House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on purchasing and management of software licences in […]
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CHI praises NHS Direct
The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) has given a positive assessment of the 24 hour health information and advice line, NHS Direct, saying that it is a successful service valued by the public and has staff that are proud to work for it. CHI’s sector report on the service covers 20 out of the […]
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OFT approves iSOFT-Torex merger
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has today, 7 November, approved the merger between the two leading UK health software application and services firms iSOFT and Torex. The OFT attached no conditions on the merger, plans for which were first announced in July 2003. Assuming the deal is approved by Torex shareholders the new firm will have a combined worth of […]
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