GPASS Clinical may run locally
NHS Scotland is considering making the new version of its GPASS clinical system available on local practice servers as well as central servers following pressure from GPs. EHI Primary Care can reveal that NHS Scotland has told the GPASS User Group that it is considering the move, described by the GPASS user group says is essential to speed […]
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QoF data to be published online
Practices will no longer have to release Quality and Outcome Framework data if asked to do so under the Freedom of Information Act as data will be in the public domain from tomorrow (August 31), GPs have been told. Revised guidance on the Freedom of Information Act from the British Medical Association’s GP committee advises GPs […]
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EMIS releases nurse prescribing system
GP computing supplier EMIS has released nurse prescribing software and two of the other leading suppliers say they will follow suit this autumn. EMIS released nurse prescribing software this month to 4,500 practices using EMIS LV and the company says 5,100 EMIS practices are now able to offer computer generated nurse prescribing as users of […]
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iSoft chosen as partner by SingHealth
iSoft has announced that it has been chosen as a partner by SingHealth to provide health IT solutions to help deliver healthcare reform in Singapore. The decision follows SingHealth’s award of a contract earlier this year for iSoft to deliver its Lorenzo clinical system. The new agreement will create a development partnership between between iSoft […]
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SMS event alert system planned for care workers
iSentry have announced the release of their Digital Witness service, a web-based compliance monitoring and alert system aimed at health and social care workers. The system has been tested by the Devon and Cornwall Autistic Community Trust (Spectrum) and is already in use there. The Digital Witness system allows workers to enter event records they […]
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St George’s publishes all mortality data online
St George’s Hospital, Tooting, south London, has become the first NHS hospital in the UK to publish graphs of mortality rates online for all medical disciplines carried out at the hospital from the year 2000. The information, published six months after the trust published detailed statistics of cardiology mortality rates according to surgeons, are available online […]
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Australian e-health framework calls for open standards
Australia’s agency responsible for delivering e-health throughout the country, the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), has just published guidelines for interoperability that it hopes will encourage the healthcare community to work together in implementing an electronic health record. The document, ‘Towards and Interoperability Framework’, emphasises data as key to the framework, rather than technology, […]
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Communication key to cutting missed appointments
A new survey of GP surgeries by health education charity Developing Patient Partnerships and the Institute of Healthcare Management indicates 10 million GP appointments a year being missed as well as around 5 million practice nurse appointments. DPP estimates the cost of missed GP appointments at £180 million per years, based on each appointment […]
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NHS smart cards may be re-dealt
The current version of the NHS smart card, being issued to all NHS staff to enable them to access new computer systems under the £6.2 billion health service IT modernisation programme, is to be upgraded from 2006. At this stage it is not certain whether all the existing 65,000 smart cards issued so far will […]
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GP2GP transfer to pilot next month in Gateshead
Nine practices in Gateshead PCT are to become the first in England to pilot GP2GP transfer of records next month. The joint IT committee of the British Medical Association’s GP committee and the Royal College of General Practitioners has given its go ahead for the live implementation of GP2GP record transfer in the PCT. Dr […]
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