BMJ Group buys GP software company
The BMJ Group has entered the primary care software market with the acquisition of Informatica Systems Ltd.
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Former iSoft auditors investigated
After a four year investigation the Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board has filed a complaint against RSM Robson Rhodes and Glyn Williams, former auditors to NPfIT software supplier, iSoft.
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Alder Hey automates IT support
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has rolled out an automated IT support platform to provide remote support to more than 2,000 PCs. The trust implemented Kaseya IT automation platform following the successful deployment of system across Liverpool Women’s Hospital. It will now be used to manage, monitor and support more than 3,000 networked machines and provide […]
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Records rules ‘bent’ in Nottingham
A report into inconsistencies in thousands of patient records at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has revealed that pressures to meet government targets led to “bending of the rules.” According to the report, which was commissioned by NHS East Midlands following discrepancies that were identified by the chief executive of the trust last year, almost […]
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Imprivata brings Secure Walk Away to UK
Imprivata, a specialist in single sign-on technology, has launched its OneSign Secure Walk Away technology worldwide. The technology uses intelligent computer vision technology, active presence detection and user tracking to lock a workstation when the authorised user moves away and then provides instant re-authentication upon their return. Omar Hussain, president and chief executive of Imprivata, […]
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Mid Staffs report demands stats overhaul
An independent report into the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has called for an “impeccably independent and transparent source” to be set up to produce comparative statistics for the NHS.
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Devon and Exeter looks for tactical EPR
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for the “first elements of a tactical electronic patient record” with the vision of implementing a full EPR by 2014.
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That’ll BI lovely
North Bristol NHS Trust won the excellence in healthcare information management category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT.
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Trusts ‘treat IG return as box-ticking’
Too many trusts are using the Information Governance Toolkit return as a tick-box exercise rather than as a means to ensure that confidential information is safe, a conference has heard. Tony Cobain, head of IM&T for Mersey Internal Audit and Assurance, told the CHKS annual user group conference in London that about a third of trusts […]
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NIGB issues guide to changing records
The Department of Health is to drop its advice that patients unhappy with their health record must make a formal complaint before a comment can be added to it. The National information Governance Board said it had disagreed with the DH and the Department had agreed to change its guidance as a result. The health […]
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