EHI’s industry round-up 19.02.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers system deployments, new products, and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Wirral goes wireless with Aruba Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a secure wireless network from Aruba Networks at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals. Peter Marsh, technical director of the Wirral Health Informatics […]
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PAC gives NPfIT six months to deliver CRS
The National Programme for IT in the NHS should be given six months to get effective care record systems into acute trusts, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of its acute-care sites. The project, which JAC claims is the largest of its kind in the UK, will see company’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system deployed to cover 1,800 beds and all the […]
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Procurement blocks innovation: report
The Policy Exchange has attacked the government for not doing enough to drive innovation in the NHS and called for a shake-up of financial incentives and procurement processes to drive new technologies and working practices into the service. The right-leaning think-tank says that as things stand, new drugs, devices and other technologies “inch” their way […]
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NHS boss says IT programme at ‘pivot point’
David Nicholson has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS is at a ‘pivot position’ and that the DH would not tolerate continued delays.
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Electronic fit notes to replace sick notes
An electronic ‘fit note’ is to replace paper sick notes from 2010 in a bid to get more people back to work and cut the estimated £100 billion annual cost of sick leave. Health secretary Alan Johnson announced this week that GPs will stop issuing paper-based sick notes and start providing electronic fit notes following […]
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Auditors warn of NPfIT risk to southern SHAs
District auditors have warned NHS strategic health authorities in the south of England that the termination of Fujitsu’s contract as local service provider is a key risk for which they need to draw up contingency plans.
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Healthcare Interoperability Preview 3
Stephen O’Brien tells Jon Hoeksma that interoperability is the starting point for future Conservative healthcare IT strategy.
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