Ealing and Southend-on-Sea start patient txt messaging
Mobile messaging firm iPlato has announced that practices from two more primary care trusts in England have started using its Patient Care Messaging system. Integrated into the underlying practice patient administration and clinical system, iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging service enables easy text messaging with patients around appointments and specialised clinics, helping tackle did not attend […]
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Essex hospital installs teleradiology system
Oldchurch Hospital part of Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust, Essex, is installing a teleradiology system in its neurology and radiology departments which will receive images transferred over NHSnet from local sites. The LifeWeb OnNet system, supplied by Ferrania, will replace the existing technology used by the trust and will allow images to be stored […]
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International standards organisation for SNOMED proposed
SNOMED International, an arm of The College of American Pathologists (CAP) and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency in charge of NHS IT modernisation, have announced plans to establish an international Standards Development Organistion to promote SNOMED CT. The aim is to create an international standards organisation that will enable countries and national authorities to take a […]
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GPs cautioned on taking part in PBC
GP representatives are advising GPs not to take part in practice based commissioning if they feel that funding for the preparatory management costs such as GP time and data validation are inadequate. National guidance on management support for practices from the Department of Health was due out last month but has been delayed and GPs […]
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Moorfields Eye Hospital goes for virtual storage
Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have installed a virtual storage server that allows them to add extra hardware and storage facilities seamlessly and allow data used by several sites to be backed up in one central location. The hospital, which keeps a large number of images, electronic patient records and patient demographic and staff details […]
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Community nurses to start e-prescribing pilot in 2006
Community nurses are to take part in NHS Connecting for Health pilots of electronic nurse prescribing early next year. Barbara Stuttle, Connecting for Health’s clinical lead for community nurses, told EHI Primary Care that community staff such as district nurses and health visitors would be provided with laptops and handheld computers as part of the […]
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Choose and Book ‘will be a year late’
The flagship Choose and Book electronic booking application will be at least a year late by the time it is rolled out across England NHS chief executive, Sir Nigel Crisp, said yesterday. Speaking to the House of Commons public accounts committee (PAC) he said that patients would still be offered a choice of four or […]
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Positive results for internet-based depression therapy
Internet-delivered cognitive-behavioural therapy can produce positive results for the treatment of mild to moderate depression, a study from Sweden indicates . The study, published in the November issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry, used a randomised controlled trial to compare the effects of an internet-administered self-help programme, including participation in a monitored, web-based discussion […]
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Primary care IT plans put forward in NI
Primary care in Northern Ireland is set for an overhaul in IT, according to a 20-year plan released by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety. The plan, entitled ‘Caring for People Beyond Tomorrow’, is short on detail of what kind of technology is planned for the future of the Northern Irish health […]
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Choose and Book referrals top 20,000
GP referrals made under Choose and Book have topped the 20,000 mark on a curve that is “rising but delayed”, a conference heard. Richard Gibbs, a Connecting for Health (CfH) executive lead for Choose and Book, said bookings were now being made at the rate of over 700 per day but he added: “If all […]
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