Emis Health is the supplier ‘most receptive to interoperabilty’, new report suggests
Compiled by Utah-based healthcare research agency KLAS, the NHS Interoperability 2018 report assesses how easily NHS organisations are able to receive data from other bodies.
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Buckinghamshire selects Graphnet for county-wide shared record
The programme is being led by NHS Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and will use Graphnet’s CareCentric software to share information between Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, Buckinghamshire County Council Social Care and 51 GP practices.
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Midlands NHS trusts merge to create major integrated care provider
South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust have merged to become Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, after receiving approval from regulators.
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Surrey Care Record due to launch in August
The record will see some GP records being made available to clinicians within the A&E departments of the four local hospital trusts – St Peter’s, Royal Surrey, Epsom and East Surrey.
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Greater Manchester LHCRE to work with neighbours toward ‘common capability’
The chief digital officer of the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership has vowed to work with “neighbours on all sides” to deliver more integrated healthcare in northern England, following its successful Local Health and Care Record Exemplar (LHCRE) bid.
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Four new integrated care systems announced by NHS England
Gloucestershire, West Yorkshire and Harrogate, Suffolk and North East Essex and North Cumbria are to join NHS England’s integrated care development programme, the organisation has announced.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals demands a little ReSPECT for patients
The Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) is an emergency care plan for recording recommendations arising from discussion between clinician and patient, or those close to the patient.
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BridgeHead strikes wicket VNA deal with England and Wales Cricket Board
BridgeHead Software will provide its vendor neutral archive technology to the England and Wales Cricket Board under a new deal.
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NHS England CDO: First Citizen Identity services to appear within weeks
The first services to use NHS Digital’s Citizen Identity system will appear for testing by the end of the month, NHS England’s chief digital officer has said.
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Greater Manchester, Wessex and One London selected as LHCREs
The three areas, which have a total population of around 14 million, will receive £7.5m over two years and are tasked with putting in place an electronic shared local health and care record by building on existing local work.
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