Health IT Leaders Welcome Wanless
From being strictly a minority interest healthcare Information and Communication technology (ICT) has suddenly moved to centre stage in British politics. According to leading Health IT figures the challenge is to rapidly deliver systems that provide real benefits to patients. Yesterday’s Budget saw the Government stake its future on delivering dramatic improvements in the NHS, […]
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New Approach on Electronic Records Needed
Despite the investment of tens of billions of Euros in healthcare IT the industry worldwide has failed to deliver on the vision of an integrated computer-based electronic medical record. Instead the industry must now focus on focused web-based electronic health records that deliver immediate benefits to patients and clinicians. Opening Mobile-Health Europe in Maastricht this […]
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NHS Needs To Double IT Spending – Wanless
A doubling of spending on information and communication technology will be needed to fund ambitious targets set out in the NHS Information Strategy, according to the Wanless Review on healthcare funding commissioned by The Treasury. The report’s author, former NatWest Group chief executive, Derek Wanless, and his review team recommend that the money should be […]
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Strong Patient Demand for Online Access to Doctors
Ninety percent of adults who are online want some form of electronic communication with their doctors, according to US market researchers, Harris Interactive. A recent poll of just over 2000 people found that, of the 66% of respondents able to access an online connection, 77% wanted to ask questions when a visit to the doctor’s […]
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Instant Medical History Comes to Europe
One of the biggest obstacles to electronic records is getting doctors to enter patient details onto systems electronically. A US company, Primetime Medical Software, believes it has the answer – get patients to enter their own medical history. Instant Medical History (IMH) is based on getting patients to complete a series of simple, yet highly […]
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Royal Wolverhampton Goes for Optimum EPR
The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals (RWH) NHS Trust has contracted with Optimum HealthWare, a division of VisionWare Plc, to incrementally develop an EPR system pulling together information from different hospital department systems. Information from existing trust legacy systems will be drawn together using Optimum HealthWare’s web-based EPR application VuePoint, and an e-Biz 2000 XML integration engine. […]
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Patient ID Chip Set for Global Launch
A tiny ID microchip that can be implanted in the human body, and then used to identify patients and enable their key medical information to be accessed securely, is to be launched globally at the beginning of May. The VeriChip, is a miniaturised, implantable radio frequency identification device (RFID), about the size of a grain […]
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Lord Hunt – “We Will Meet EPR targets”
Lord Hunt, the health minister with responsibility for IT, has underlined his determination that the NHS will achieve its targets on electronic records and spoken of the damage caused by the previous government’s “awful failures” in technology. Speaking to the British Journal of Health Care Management Lord Hunt said, “We will get there and I […]
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GP Pathology Messaging Contracts Under Negotiation
A central procurement process has started to ensure that GPs have the right software to handle online pathology reports and results, the NHS Information Authority announced this week. The roll out of online pathology messaging is due to be completed by the target date of December 2002. The service – the first national system to […]
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Torex Wins Contracts at Two Shared Services Sites
Torex Health has been awarded five year contracts to implement Oracle financial services software at two shared services centres due to open in autumn this year. The centres at Bristol and South Leeds will provide a range of financial services to various NHS organisations including acute, primary care and ambulance trusts in two UK regions […]
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