Open Source: ‘Rescue Community Nurses from IT Exile’
In the second of our new ‘Open Source’ columns Mark Reynolds, managing director of TopCall UK argues for community nurses to be urgently provided with modern IT tools to end their ‘communications exile’. According to research by Intel, Hewlett Packard and Sendmail, the mobile nursing community is one of the most ostracised of all British […]
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IT Vital to Tackle Health Staff Shortages
A major new US health IT survey suggests that new technology has significant potential to help mitigate the serious staff shortages faced by healthcare providers. The same survey also stressed the importance of re-evaluating workflow to realise the benefits from any IT implementation. Electronic medical records, point of care technologies and mobile and wireless communications […]
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Website Supports Teenagers Whose Parents Have Cancer
A new website that offers support and information to teenagers who have a parent with cancer has been launched by the University of Sheffield’s Academic Palliative Medicine Unit. The site, called Riprap is aimed at 12 to 16 year olds. Its unusual name means “loose stones placed in a stream onto which firm foundations can […]
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Two PCTs Choose Graphnet for Integrated Electronic Records
Halton primary care trust (PCT) and Warrington PCT are to develop an integrated XML-based repository of real-time patient records that will make integrated electronic patient records available to all local authorised healthcare staff. The solution, to be provided by Graphnet, will extract and integrate patient data from the different IT systems of individual GP surgeries […]
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Capio Healthcare Strikes Deal with Cerner
Swedish-based Capio Healthcare, which runs private hospitals and diagnostic services in eight European countries has chosen Cerner Corporation as its strategic IT partner for a hospital automation project in the UK. The first phase of the project will implement a foundation for electronic medical records and patient access systems across Capio’s 22 hospitals, which are […]
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Time to Get More Involved With NPfIT, Granger Tells Staff
Richard Granger, Director General of NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) last week told NHS IT professionals that the time had come for them to be more involved in the National Programme, which he argued would offer opportunities for them to “move from the machine room to the board room”. In his speech at last […]
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Hanon Partners to Launch Virtual Child Protection
Hanon Solutions Ltd, the Scottish data integration specialist, has announced a new partnership to offer local authorities a solution to the Department of Health’s Identification, Referral & Tracking (IRT) initiative. The off-the-shelf package is designed to help councils ensure that information relating to children at risk is securely shared between relevant organisations. The need to […]
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Hammersmith & Fulham Integrate Care Electronically
Nationally, health and social services suffer from a lack of integrated IT systems. However, a few local authorities have started to innovate in linking the two, writes SA Matthieson. One is the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which has developed a Joint Electronic Transfer (Jet) extranet project, designed to allow doctors to view social services […]
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Open Source: ‘A Frenzy of Consolidation?’
This week E-Health Insider launches a new ‘Open Source’ column for anyone interested in healthcare IT to voice their opinion. In this first article Phil Birchall, healthcare business development manager at InterSystems, comments on consolidation among healthcare IT suppliers in light of the Torex acquisition of Protos last week. As we move closer to the […]
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Final Long-List for National Programme Reached
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has reached the latest milestone in the procurement process for Local Service Providers (LSPs) and National Application Service Providers (NASPs) to deliver 21st Cenury IT to the NHS with selection of a slightly shorter long-list of candidates. The new list of firms, 22 prospective LSPs and […]
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