A year in the life of TPP
Summary record roll-out builds momentum
Five NHS strategic health authorities, covering half of England, are planning to begin roll-outs of the Summary Care Record in the New Year.
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What’s going on, Darling?
NPfIT was going to be scrapped. Then it wasn’t. Sarah Bruce reports on Pre-Budget Report chaos.
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Call made for push on telehealth
NHS Connecting for Health’s assistive technologies programme manager has called for all healthcare organisations to provide their patients with access to assistive living technologies, or to be forced to do so. George MacGinnis made the plea as he addressed an audience at a Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit in London. MacGinnins later told E-Health Insider that he […]
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Burnham defends NPfIT but cuts £600m
Health secretary Andy Burnham has launched a spirited defence of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, but £600m will be trimmed from the way it is run and the scope of some systems.
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Brown streamlines government with IT
Gordon Brown has outlined plans to encourage much greater use of information, online services and text messaging in the NHS as part of a public sector information revolution that he claims will save £3 billion a year. The Prime Minister told the Smarter Government conference today that the UK was entering the “third generation of […]
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Turmoil grips NHS IT programme
The future of the National Programme for IT in the NHS has been plunged into doubt after the Chancellor of the Exchequer singled it out as a suitable candidate for cuts. Speaking ahead of the Pre-Budget Report, Alistair Darling made it clear that he believed there were savings to be made, and bluntly stated that he […]
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Discharge summary target ‘to be missed’
The vast majority of NHS hospitals look set to miss the government’s target for delivering discharge summaries to GP practices within 24 hours from next April.
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Train on
Daloni Carlisle talks to E-Health Insider’s Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year, Andy Inniss.
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Intel launches text reader
Intel has launched a handheld mobile reader that allows people with learning disabilities and those with poor vision to photograph text and have it read aloud to them digitally. The Intel Reader uses a high resolution camera to convert printed text into digital text and then reads it aloud while also showing it on a screen. It […]
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