Kaiser Permanente Aims for E-Health within Three Years
Kaiser Permanente, the second biggest integrated health delivery organisation in the US, has announced that it will invest $1.8 billion in advanced ICT systems including electronic medical records, electronic appointment booking, electronic prescription refills and referral requests. The programme represents one of the largest and most ambitious implementations of electronic medical records yet seen, in […]
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OJEC Issued for National IT Programme Procurement
The clock has started ticking officially for companies aspiring to take a slice of the new NHS IT business with the publication of an OJEC contract notice and supporting documents designed to set the £2.3 billion procurement process in train. The notice leaves suppliers 37 days to express their interest in becoming bidders for the […]
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Innovative System for Enabling IT Access for Students
A London mental health trust has set up an innovative system for allowing nursing students to have access to patient records and other electronic information. Pre-registration education nurse education co-ordinator, Roger James, at South West London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust said it was the first among London mental health trusts to organise […]
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Portsmouth Predicts Savings from Clinical Workflow System
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has announced it has implemented an XML-based clinical workflow system, which it anticipates will help support early discharges, reduce the average length patient stays in hospital and deliver cost savings. Clinical IT solutions provider, Graphnet, has developed and implemented the new clinical workflow system in the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) at […]
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Under 16s Database Recommendation from Climbie Inquiry
A recommendation that the government should actively explore the benefit to children of setting up a database on all under 16s has come from the Victoria Climbie Inquiry published this week. The inquiry report says that within the next two years a feasibility study and a pilot study should be conducted on an under 16s […]
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From Barclay’s to Blood Splashes
What do computer programmers have in common with hospital doctors? They both get asked for advice at parties, according to Dr Andrew Harrison, who has done both jobs. Following his Christmas IT wishlist for the NHS, Dr Harrison compares and contrasts hospital life with his previous role among the City slickers. It was five and […]
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Telemedicine and Telecare Site for Wales
A new website to support telemedicine and telecare in Wales has been launched by the Welsh Assembly Government’s NHS Division Telemedicine Team. The site is available on the NHS Wales Intranet and in a slightly modified form for the public on the Internet. The site includes details of projects underway in Wales and further afield, […]
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Technologies Open Up New Consultation Possibilities
The importance of public services embracing new technology in their consultations with users and citizens is emphasised in a new report from the Audit Commission. The report, Connecting with Users and Citizens says, “In our discussions with service providers, those who used a wider choice of approaches and techniques were more likely to see themselves […]
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Cedars-Sinai Suspends Use of New Clinical IT System
Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, the largest private hospital in the Western US, has suspended use of a prestige multimillion-dollar computerised system for doctors’ orders, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. Doctors at the hospital are reported to have complained that it was endangering patient safety and required too much work. […]
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In Practice Systems and in4tek Partner to Deliver ICRS
In Practice Systems and in4tek have formed a partnership in order to jointly provide an integrated PCT/StHA solution to meet the expanding needs of the NHS National Programme “Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS”. The two companies say that the new partnership will enable them to offer a solution able to address all aspects of […]
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