Cerner and Fujitsu deliver first South implementation
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first hospital in the South of England to go live with an electronic patient records system from Cerner, implemented by Fujitsu, under the NHS National Programme for IT. The initial implementation comes almost two years after Fujitsu was first awarded an £896 million local service provider (LSP) […]
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Graphnet says 45 PCTs now using Xtract
Graphnet Health has announced that 45 primary care trusts in England are in the process of implementing its data extraction software, Xtract. The software is designed to enable clinical data from GP systems to be accurately and securely extracted and then, subject to local data sharing agreements, used by other health professionals within a local […]
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InterSystems chosen for Dutch e-health programme
InterSystems Corporation has been selected by CSC Computer Sciences BV to provide its Ensemble integration platform for a national healthcare integration project in the Netherlands. The new initiative, called the National Switching Point, will provide the foundation for the national rollout of an electronic patient record (EPR) that is being developed by the Dutch National […]
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GP contract IM&T incentives announced
GPs are to be offered incentives worth up to £70m in total across England to embrace NHS information and management technology changes. There will also be extra money to implement choice and booking. The proposed changes to the national GPs’ contract, which are due to take effect from 1 April 2006, were published today. The investment […]
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IT services commitment to GPs downgraded
A forthcoming document on the level of IT service practices can expect from primary care organisations has been downgraded from a legally binding agreement to a guidance note, according to GP representatives. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee heard at its meeting this month that the service level agreement on IT is due to […]
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BUPA moves to .NET systems
Independent health insurer and provider, BUPA, has signed a two year contract worth over £5m with technology company Edenbrook to develop new systems based on Microsoft .NET to support BUPA’s UK insurance and membership services. Edenbrook, a Microsoft Gold Partner, will build a core of systems that interface with BUPA’s finance, web, legacy and data […]
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One PCT may have met October C+B target
A primary care trust is hoping it will be able to claim the second £100,000 incentive payment for Choose and Book which it plans to distribute to its successful practices. Durham Dales PCT is likely to be the only trust in England to achieve the target which required a PCT to make 50% of its […]
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Tees and NE Yorkshire postpones PAS project
Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust has postponed implementation of an iSoft iPM Patient Administration System (PAS). The mental health trust becomes the third NHS trust to tell E-Health Insider they have decided to shelve or postpone implementation of the iSoft system. All three trusts are located in the two Accenture clusters of the NHS […]
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SMS appointment reminders get language boost
A GP practice in south London which is using text messaging to send out appointment reminders to its patients will soon start sending out SMSs in separate languages. The Patient Care Messaging system, supplied by iPlato and running from the practice’s EMIS database, has been used to send out flu jab prompts to patients at risk as […]
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Pharmacists call for GP booking facility
Pharmacy representatives are calling for a ‘Choose and Book’ style system to be set up between pharmacies and GP practices so that pharmacists can book GP appointments for patients. The idea has been proposed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) as part of its submission to the Department of Health’s consultation […]
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