Personal View: John Cruickshank
The author of ‘Fixing NHS IT’ outlines his recommendations for a new government and urges ministers to take action within 100 days.
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Yorks and Humber plans telehealth hub
NHS Yorkshire and the Humber is considering spending £1m on a telehealth hub as part of its cost-saving plans.
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Choose and Book reaches 20m referrals
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that 20m referrals have now been made through Choose and Book. The Department of Health’s IT agency said the achievement was a "key milestone" for the e-booking system, which was launched in 2004. However, the figures also show that the system is currently used for around 50% of first outpatient […]
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Waltham Forest links RiO and C&B
NHS Waltham Forest has become the first primary care trust in London to link up its RiO electronic patient record system with Choose and Book.
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Get consent 2 txt – MDU
GP practices are being advised to get patients’ explicit consent before communicating with them via text message. Latest advice from the Medical Defence Union warns GPs that sending text messages to patients who have not opted-in to such a service could lead to complaints. The defence body said GP practices were increasingly looking at text […]
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Boomers lead on personal health records
Personal health records have become a reality for millions of Americans, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference has heard.
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Acute trusts go-live with Bluespier EDS
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have gone live with a new electronic discharge system from Bluespier. The company says it has worked closely with the two trusts, which have been customising the module for their own use. It is linked with the admission and discharge processes on the trusts’ patient […]
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RiO to be integrated with EMIS and INPS
Community and mental health system supplier CSE Healthcare Systems has announced that its RiO system is to be integrated with the primary care systems provided by EMIS and INPS.
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£1.7m for My Health Online
The Welsh Assembly Government has announced it will invest £1.7m in a bilingual website that will enable patients to book GP appointments and order repeat prescriptions online. Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, says it is developing a “bespoke NHS Wales website” with GP system suppliers, which will allow patients to interact with GPs […]
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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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