Multilex Announces Enhanced Sensitivity Checking
First DataBank Europe , the provider of point-of-care databases has launched Enhanced Sensitivity Checking as a new feature of its Multilex Drug Data File Multilex DDF). The new feature offers a more sophisticated way to highlight potential drug – patient sensitivity safety issues to clinicians, a key requirement in reducing medication errors. Previously, within electronic […]
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Brighton and Sussex selects Capula Elan
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a three-year deal to Capula Elan to modernise its ageing patient administration systems (PAS). Capula Elan will replace the trust’s existing PAS systems, supplied by Torex and IRC, with its Oasis system. The three-year contract covers two major hospital sites and six organisations. The deal is […]
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Porn-Blocking Software Impedes Access to Health Info
The most restrictive settings on pornography-blocking software shut out the highest proportion of health sites without delivering substantially higher gains in pornography restriction, researchers have found. The findings are significant because the Internet has become an important tool for finding health information, especially among adolescents. There is concern that blocking software cannot perfectly discriminate between […]
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Leeds Leads on E-Commerce
Examples of e-commerce working in NHS purchasing ands supplies were showcased at a conference hosted by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust this week. The trust has produced one of the first UK examples of e-commerce in NHS purchasing. Head of supplies, Keith Lilley, showed how the system was working in the trust’s cardiac catheter labs. Bar […]
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The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You
Last week, E-Health Insider asked for responses to the new NHS IT Director General, Richard Granger’s reported advice to suppliers that they should desist from rocking the boat or publicly questioning the national programme – or else. Never before has a single topic generated such a lively response from our readers. Here are some extracts […]
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10 Ways To Improve NHS IT – a Hospital Doctor’s View
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, worked in IT before studying medicine. His unusual background prompted E-Health Insider to ask him to list the top 10 improvements he would like to see in healthcare IT. Read on for the result… Until the age of 29 I was a computer programmer working in the City. Then I decided […]
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Microsoft and MSN Launch Public Services Channel
Microsoft Ltd and MSN have announced the launch of the online Public Services Channel offering access to online government and healthcare services for its monthly 11.2 million users. The new online channel, which went live on December 7, can be accessed through the MSN home page http://www.msn.co.uk and provides online access to health information and details […]
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CSW Builds HRI Prototype
CSW Health has announced that it has developed a Health Records Infrastructure (HRI) prototype for South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust in support of the NHS Information Authority’s development of a national HRI infrastructure. Currently undergoing final testing the new system, which provides an index of all records held on an individual patient in local clinical […]
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PSP Arrangements Needed “As Fast As Possible”
Healthcare IT suppliers have delivered a clear message to the government that the new Prime Service Provider (PSP) arrangements need to be brought on stream as soon as possible. A position paper delivered to health secretary, Alan Milburn, by Intellect, the new association representing the UK IT, telecommunications and electronic industries, says, “Industry would like […]
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Show Power To Deliver, Granger Tells Suppliers
NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger pledged this week that a new procurement strategy will be published in January 2003 and gave some heavy hints about the new direction for IT procurement that would be used to deliver the NHS IT programme. Speaking to suppliers at a forum in London he promised that the new procurement […]
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