Advice Paves the Way for National Clinical Audit
Advice is published this week on the National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP) which will eventually yield comparative data on the performance of clinical services and on individual practitioners. The programme forms part of the government’s response to the Kennedy Report on child heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1984 and 95. Kennedy […]
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New Zealand Launches Online Register of Doctors
The New Zealand Medical Council has launched an online register of doctors that enables members of the public to freely check the details of 10,000 doctors. The register contains details of each doctor’s qualifications and any restrictions on their practice. The register also confirms whether a doctor holds a practising certificate, and the type and date […]
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Bristol Chooses Paris Records System
Bristol City Council, the largest unitary authority in England, has selected supplier in4tek to supply its Paris electronic record systems and IT solutions from in4tek to support Bristol’s Social Services and Health Department’s goal of delivering integrated care. The integrated records system will be introduced over the next two years, beginning with a six month pilot […]
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More Women Seek Online Health Information
A new European survey has found women are more likely than men to seek health information online. Although men are far more likely to use the internet for general use and to send emails than women, the survey finds that women are 12 per cent more likely than men to use the Internet to search […]
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PiRiLiS Offers A Life Saving Time Saver
A modern Web-based link has replaced motorbike couriers weaving through busy London traffic to bring prompt expert advice on head injury from the National Hospital for Neurology and Neuroscience in Holborn to the accident and emergency unit at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. ComMedica, the spin-off company from Imperial College, London, has set up an instant […]
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Newchurch Launches PCT IT Blueprint
Newchurch Ltd has launched what it describes as a technology blueprint to enable Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement integrated Primary and Community Care Electronic Patient Records (EPR). The health IT systems and consultancy firm says that the new blueprint will enable PCTs to build modular, integrated EPR systems in line with latest national guidance that […]
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Dramatic Funding Increase in Store for NHS IT
A “dramatic increase” in funding to modernise NHS IT is anticipated – but there’s still no word on the overall figure. That was the message from Professor Sir John Pattison, the DH’s director of research, information and analysis to the Quality Information Solutions 2002 conference in Birmingham this week ”Funds would be highly centralised, ring-fenced […]
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Capula Acquires Elan Technologies
Elan Technologies, the UK provider of healthcare information systems, has been acquired by Capula Ltd, a provider of IT solutions to the energy, healthcare, utilities, industrial and public sector markets. The deal comes at a critical time in NHS IT with the government widely expected to commit significant new investment into computerising the health service. […]
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Growing Interest in EPR Systems Around Europe
Increasing interest in electronic patient record systems is found in a new study of European healthcare IT vendors by consultants, Frost & Sullivan. The attraction lies in the ease with which EPR systems can be devised using existing technologies, but the report’s author, Chris Cherrington, points to a significant problem. "While hospitals and healthcare standards […]
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New Director General of NHS IT Appointed
The NHS’s first ever director general of information is Richard Granger who joins the service from Deloitte Consulting. Mr Granger comes to healthcare with extensive experience of public sector IT at Deloitte where his clients have included Transport for London and the former Departments for Education and Employment and Social Security. In his new high-profile […]
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