Healthcare Interoperability event launched by EHI
E-Health Insider is launching a new conference and exhibition called Healthcare Interoperability on 30 October at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. The event is a response to the current wide ranging discussion about interoperability in healthcare systems – what it is, where it is needed and how it can be made to happen. What is […]
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TPP to add Numed Capture to SystmOne
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced plans to integrate an image capture device into its software SystmOne. TPP and Numed, suppliers of diagnostic and patient monitoring devices, integrated Numed’s Biolog 3000i ECG device into SystmOne earlier this year and now plans to add Numed Capture. Numed Capture is a specially designed auto-focus camera with […]
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NHS Direct Online to be moved to Choices
Parts of NHS Direct Online, the highly successful and popular web-based patient advice and information service, look set to be transferred to rival NHS Choices. The planned move is not thought to impact NHS Direct’s core nurse-led national telephone advice service, which handles over 8 million calls a year. NHS Choices, the patient information portal run […]
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NI to issue large-scale telehealth tender
Northern Ireland’s Department of Health and Social Services is getting set to issue a tender for the supply of telehealth services to cover 5,000 people by 2011. The initiative will see Northern Ireland invest £46m in telemedicine services to better support chronic disease management. Some 40 telehealth suppliers hoping to participate are today in Belfast […]
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Six thousand practices switch to Systems of Choice
A total of 94% of eligible practices had switched to a GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) contract by the deadline of 31 March, according to Connecting for Health (CfH). The DH IT agency said over 6,000 practices were included in a call-off agreement which will mean funding for their clinical system will, as of 1 […]
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Pharmacists may get access to patient care records
The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved. The news comes despite BMA concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of extending access to an additional professional group working in the commercial sector. The newly-published white paper on community pharmacy, Pharmacy in England: […]
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Humana launches commissioning simulator tool
Gloucestershire PCT pilots the Commissioning Simulator A new computer-based simulation programme has been launched by Humana Europe, which replicates the three-year business cycle of a PCT and could influence future commissioning. The commissioning tool, which is being offered to all strategic health authorities (SHAs) by the Department of Health, is said to provide a risk-free […]
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Electronic ‘fit notes’ could replace sick notes
Paper-based sick notes should be replaced with electronic ‘fit notes’ according to the first ever review of the health of Britain’s working age population. The recommendation to implement an electronic system of ‘fit notes’, which would switch the focus to what people can do and improve communications between employers, employees and GPs, is made in […]
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Tunstall sell controlling interest to Charterhouse
Charterhouse Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired a controlling interest in The Tunstall Group, in a transaction totalling £514m. The company’s existing management and selling shareholders will retain an interest valued at £66m on the same terms as Charterhouse. James Buckley, chief executive of Tunstall Group, said: “I am delighted to be working […]
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Four pilots for shared social care records
Three local authorities and one care trust are to pilot links between their social care systems and the NHS Personal Demographics Service (PDS). The Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) has announced that Cheshire County Council, the London Borough of Greenwich, Slough Borough Council and Torbay Care Trust have been chosen, in association […]
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