EHI’s industry news roundup 04.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 4 January, featuring supplier news, appointments, acquisitions and awards. Supplier News Manpower Software wins North West Wales NHS Trust contract Manpower Software has won a contract to deploy its MAPS Healthroster software at the North West Wales NHS Trust. The software allows users to create […]
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CSW named SME of the year
John Chelsom recieves the award (right) Oxford-based health software firm CSW has been named ‘SME Organisation of the Year’ at the British Computer Society (BCS) IT Awards. CSW’s winning entry entitled ‘Taking Electronic Health Records Worldwide’ was said by the judges to have “demonstrated strong company growth in a difficult market, with staff and investors […]
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Health secretary’s website wins access award
Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who is also Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle, won the award for his personal website www.alanjohnson.org, used to communicate news to his constituents. The website is run for […]
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Health secretary’s website wins access award
Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who is also Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle, won the award for his personal website www.alanjohnson.org, used to communicate news to his constituents. The website is run for the health secretary by […]
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Wanless warns NPfIT risking NHS modernisation
In a review of NHS modernisation efforts Sir Derek Wanless has criticised the slow progress of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and called for an audit of the programme to ensure it supports wider health service modernisation. The report warns that considerable challenges lie ahead in modernising NHS IT systems and says there is "continuing […]
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Dr Glyn Hayes receives lifetime achievement award
GP, Dr Glyn Hayes has been awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Health Informatics Forum of the British Computer Society, becoming the third person ever receive the accolade. Announcing the award on Wednesday Professor Stephen Kay, chairman of the BCS Healthcare Computing Conference Committee, said that Dr Hayes "has been one of the major […]
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BCS calls for complete overhaul of NHS IT project
A new report from the British Computer Society has called for a fundamental rethink of the NHS IT programme, including putting one hold current plans for a national system of summary records and for the scope of NHS Care Records Service to fundamentally re-defined. Rather than attempt to build a monolithic national database of records […]
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DH carrying out ‘confidential’ review of CfH
E-Health Insider has learned that an urgent ‘confidential’ review of the NHS IT programme and structure of Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for its delivery, has been launched by the new chief executive of the NHS David Nicholson. The new boss of the health service has commissioned a review of the £6.2bn NHS digitisation […]
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BCS ‘has not changed mind’ about CfH review
The British Computer Society has denied changing its tack by backing the growing calls for a technical review of the health service’s £12.4bn IT programme. Glyn Hayes, chair of the society’s Health Informatics Forum, has defended his position following a report in this week’s Computer Weekly, which detailed a private email from Dr Hayes to […]
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BCS announces speaker line-up for HC2006
The British Computer Society has announced details of its speaker line-up for this year’s HC2006 health informatics conference at Harrogate, Yorkshire, 20-22 March. The focus this year will be on how health informatics is making a difference to the health service. Keynote speakers at the three day conference include Richard Granger, director general of NHS […]
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