Information for World Class Commissioning
World Class Commissioning is a developing discipline with information at its heart. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Dashboards available from October
The roll out of clinical intelligence systems – or clinical dashboards – could be partly supported by central funding. Simon Eccles, medical director of NHS Connecting for Health, told E-Health Insider that once the pilot phase of the dashboards project is completed in spring 2010, CfH will look at how it should be rolled-out […]
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Quality counts
The Quality and Outcomes Research Unit at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust was the overall winner in last year’s BT E-Health Insider awards. Daloni Carlisle finds out why.
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IC boss sets out quality programmes
The chief executive of the Information Centre has claimed that the UK has the potential to have the best technology and information systems in the world “if we continue to stick with it.” He pledged to deliver systems to help achieve this within the next 12-18 months. Exactly one year on from the final report […]
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CfH to pilot clinical dashboards
NHS Connecting for Health has awarded a contract to System C to design, develop and pilot Clinical Intelligence Systems, or clinical dashboards, over the next nine months.
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Bristol uses IT to underpin foundation status
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has chosen CACI’s InView data warehouse and reporting system to underpin its transition to foundation status. The new system will allow the trust to improve data quality and support 18 week pathways, Payment by Results, performance monitoring and other information demands. InView is a web-based solution that utilises Microsoft […]
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60 Second Interview: Nigel Beasley
The latest 60 second interview features Nigel Beasley, the national clinical lead for hospital doctors at NHS Connecting for Health.
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E-Health Insider award winner blazes trail for NHS
Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust won the 2007 BT e-Health Insider award for Excellence in Health Information Management.
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iSoft add reporting tool to labs software
Users of iSoft’s i.Laboratory systems now have access to detailed management and pathology reports following the introduction of a new reporting tool. The web-based module, called Rapid Analytics and developed by iSoft and FMI Business Solutions, will be made available to all of the 150 NHS trusts using iSoft’s i.Laboratory or i.Laboratory TP software. Rapid […]
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