Comments wanted on Care Record Guarantee
Questions about the content of local health records and summary records and the options patients should have on information recorded about them are still open for debate, a BMA conference heard this week. The conference “Challenges for Doctors in the Digital World” was held the day after the launch of the new Care Record Guarantee […]
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Suppliers advised to develop standalone software
Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that it is advising its suppliers to develop standalone versions of their applications, not reliant on the NHS Spine, in order to prevent further implementation delays. A CfH spokesperson told E-Health Insider that the spine remained an "important component of the strategy that the National Programme for IT is […]
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EU conference in Norway spotlights e-health partnership
European commissioners have called for greater partnerships between both the public and the private sector and between different countries to advance the cause of computerising healthcare across Europe. The third European ministerial conference on e-health, held this week in Tromso, Norway, focused on best practice and examples of how e-health can improve patient care, and […]
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Doctors.net.uk helps put docs in the dock
Doctors.net.uk, the online medical network of UK doctors, has teamed up with Capita Health Solutions (CHS) to enable doctors to register as legal experts for a new medical evidence service. From this month CHS will provide Doctors.net.uk’s members with the opportunity to work in the medico-legal field. The doctors involved will deal directly with CHS […]
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Ascribe moves into A&E
Ascribe Plc has announced that it has acquired A&E specialist software company Footman Walker Ltd for £2.6 million. Footman Walker is a supplier of information systems to hospital Accident and Emergency Departments and minor injuries units. According to Ascribe the firm’s software is used in 30% of A&E departments within the UK NHS. The purchase […]
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Patients becoming apprehensive of NHS CRS
Patients are contacting their GPs with concerns about the confidentiality of their data held on GP computer systems as awareness about the NHS Care Records Service spreads, according to the British Medical Association’s GP committee. The General Practitioner Committee says patients are beginning to ask about the government’s plans for a central care record and […]
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National Scottish NHS IT procurement begins
The National Health Service for Scotland has begun re-tendering exercise for end-to-end delivery of its principal IT services, in a procurement designed to meet the services’ evolving national and local business and clinical requirements. The contract notice includes provision for the future development of a national NHS Scotland Electronic Patient Record, and other future developments […]
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Welsh telemedicine in great shape, says First Minister
Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan, has lent his support to the use of telemedicine within the country, saying that it has had great benefits for NHS Wales. Speaking ahead of last week’s seventh summit of the British Irish Council on the Isle of Man, which focused on the benefits of telemedicine, Morgan said: "Wales has […]
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No need to register for Choose and Book yet, says BMA
GP representatives have told GPs that there is no need to complete the registration process for Connecting for Health in order to express an interest in Choose and Book. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee says that primary care trusts are putting practices under pressure to complete the registration process so that PCTs can […]
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Minister launches patient ‘guarantee’ on records
The government has published a series of commitments in the form of a guarantee on how nationally held electronic health records will be used. Health minister Lord Warner said that the new rules will ensure patients keep control over access to their health records in the delayed national database of patient records known as the […]
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