PACS tomorrow
Daloni Carlisle reports for E-Health Insider on why PACS delivery is slower than expected, and reveals that affordability is mostly to blame.
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Choose and Book set to miss 2005 targets
The government’s targets for the implementation of Choose and Book this year look almost certain to be missed, despite being one of the health department’s key priorities. Continuing problems with clinical engagement and delays in implementing fully integrated Choose and Book systems are two of the key issues holding back roll-out of the system according […]
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Solving the maze
Gerry Yantis and Nikolai Segora from Capgemini argue for greater integration between IT programmes in primary care.
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Cerner in line for south contract
In the south of England plans have been drawn up since at least March on the basis that there would be a major change occurring in the supplier line-up for NHS National Programme for IT. These rumours were confirmed today when IDX issued a release to the US market announcing that it had reached an […]
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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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N3 hits 6,000 installations milestone
More than 6000 GP surgeries are now connected to the NHS broadband, N3, NHS Connecting for Health has claimed; however, installation has not been without problems. In a written statement, an NHS CfH spokesman said: "As at 31 March 2005, there were 6036 commissioned sites which were supporting live traffic on that date. In addition, […]
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Professions invited to advise Connecting for Health
A new set of advisory groups intended to involve professional organisations in the work of Connecting for Health (CfH), formerly the National Programme for IT, started to take shape this week at a meeting in London. Nurses, midwives, doctors, dentists, the allied health professions and optometrists were among the groups drawn together to establish Clinical […]
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Data migration hurdles detailed in leaked report
The complex task of transferring data from existing GP clinical systems into systems supplied under NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contracts is costing twice as much and taking twice as long in the North East and Eastern clusters compared to London, a confidential report leaked to EHI shows. However, the report also found that the […]
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Kaiser to end ‘wobbly’ medicine
Doctors working without computerised systems are working in the “operational dark ages”, according to George Halvorson, chief executive officer of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals. Speaking at the World Health Care Congress in Chantilly, France, he outlined his organisation’s $3 billion project to create a fully computerised information tool kit including an automated patient […]
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‘State of the art’ review of health IT announced
The National Patient Safety Research Programme has issued a call for a systematic review of internationally available research on the impact of information technology on the quality and safety of health services. In collaboration with NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), the NPSA’s Patient Safety Research Programme is calling for an analysis of the evidence for […]
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