Cheshire trusts send e-discharge letters
Three acute trusts are delivering electronic discharge letters to almost 90 GP practices using a shared IT solution that plugs into existing computer systems. Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust has led the initiative, which uses the MedisecNET electronic delivery system from Medisec Software. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Cheshire […]
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Merseyside chooses JAC for e-prescribing
The North Mersey Health Informatics Service has selected JAC to provide an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system to more than three million patients across Merseyside.
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NHS Direct Wales ‘needs new direction’
NHS Direct Wales provides a valuable service but needs to be better integrated into the wider unscheduled care system, according to the Welsh Audit Office. A report from the Auditor General found that the health helpline is viewed as something separate to the unscheduled care system, instead of as a core part of it. It […]
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Vote now for your champion of the year
Voting opens today for the Healthcare ICT Champion of the Year, a special category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009, in association with BT.
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Reported drug errors increase, says NPSA
The incidence of reported drug errors leading to avoidable deaths and patient harm is on the increase, according to a new National Patient Safety Agency report.
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Bupa carries out SWIFT migration
UK health insurer, Bupa, has completed a large scale migration of data as part of the consolidation of legacy applications onto SWIFT, its new unified administrative platform.
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Audit Commission warns on poor records
The Audit Commission has called on organisations at all levels of the NHS to improve the standard of record keeping and clinical coding. In its second annual analysis of the national clinical coding audit programme that is run as part of the Payment by Results Data Assurance Framework, the spending watchdog says that errors continue […]
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Personal view: Mary Hawking
Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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EHI’s industry round up 7.8.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers forthcoming events, system deployments and other developments in healthcare IT.
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