Personal health record-keeping gets popular in US
Two in five adults in the US keep their own personal and family health records, with 13% of them keeping them electronically and 40% planning to do so in the future, a new survey has announced. The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive, asked 2,242 adults about the information they recorded about their health. 42% said […]
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Spending on integration technology set to rise
A new survey on the attitudes to integration of senior IT personnel has revealed that many companies plan to increase spending on integration technology in 2004. The survey, carried out by research company PMP on behalf of InterSystems, included 100 interviews with senior IT personnel in companies whose turnover exceeded £100 million. Some 42 per […]
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Web-based dermatology system installed in Kent
Medway NHS Trust, in Kent, have installed a new internet-based teledermatology system that allows doctors in remote locations to make clinical decisions. E-Ceptionist, based in Houston, Texas, claim that their software reduces waiting times and helps to keep down waiting lists. Kye Johnanning, spokesperson for E-Ceptionist, told E-Health Insider how the system works: "When the […]
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NHS University cancels ‘virtual campus’ procurement
The NHS University has cancelled the procurement for its ‘virtual campus’, the project that was meant to be the centerpiece of the health service’s corporate university e-learning services. NHSU had planned to award the contract for the ‘virtual campus’ this summer. The platform was intended to provide NHS staff with 24-hour access to online knowledge […]
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Gartner awarded market intelligence contract
The National Programme for IT has awarded a one-year £154,000 contract to IT analysts Gartner to provide it with market intelligence services. The deal follows the award of a £117,000 contract to Ovum for ‘supplier relations’ services in July. According to NPfIT the market intelligence to be supplied by Gartner will help it monitor the […]
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First QMAS system fully approved in NPfIT pilot
The National Programme for IT have rubber-stamped the first clinical software system for use with the new Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) being piloted this summer. HealthyGP, from Healthy Software, achieved official NPfIT certification for supplying GMS Contract Submissions prior to the formal introduction of the system in April 2005. EMIS is also piloting […]
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ID cards: discretion will be needed on healthcare access
If national ID cards are used to control access to NHS care, doctors will need some discretion to treat people who fall outside the eligibility criteria, two authors warn this week. Writing in the British Medical Journal, Julian Sheather, ethics adviser at the British Medical Association, and north London GP, Iona Heath, say: “If identity […]
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SMS reminds patients of upcoming appointments
A new system that sends GP appointment reminders to patients over SMS which partially integrates into existing electronic appointment record systems is being piloted in North London. iPlato’s Patient Care Messaging (PCM) system runs over Orange’s gateway services and has a server system hosted in NHSnet. It collates data from each clinical system and then […]
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Norfolk hospital gets electronic cancer care system
A hospital in East Anglia has installed an electronic cancer management system in its oncology department, which is designed to bring greater efficiency, greater patient throughput and reduced waiting times. Until now, the software has not been available in Europe. The Colney Centre at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is using VARiS MedOncology from Varian Medical Systems, […]
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Doctors’ support for NPfIT tailing off, says survey
A new survey has revealed that doctors’ support for the aims of the national programme has fallen to 54% from 65% in February, and that the majority of them are still in the dark about its aims. In their biannual poll of doctors, Medix UK asked 400 GPs and 450 hospital doctors about their attitudes to the […]
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