Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Speakers announced for 2008 HL7 UK conference
Speakers at the sixth annual HL7 UK Conference will include a strong supplier and international line-up. They include Matthew Swindells, the author of the NHS Informatics Review and now head of Tribal Health and international speakers who are due to speak come from Holland and Canada. Industry speakers will include individuals from BT, Cerner, CSC, INPS and […]
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NHS Connecting for Health backs Healthcare Interoperability showcase
NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for England’s IT modernisation programme, is sponsoring the Best Practice Showcase at E-Health-Insider’s Healthcare Interoperability conference and exhibition this autumn. The showcase will give IM&T professionals working in healthcare organisations the opportunity to describe and demonstrate good work they are doing to achieve interoperability between systems. One of […]
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E-Health Insider award winner blazes trail for NHS
Homerton University NHS Foundation Trust won the 2007 BT e-Health Insider award for Excellence in Health Information Management.
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NHS Choices gets central role in future health
The DH’s flagship website has been given a central role in Lord Darzi’s plans for reforming the health service in England.
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EHI’s news roundup 13.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 13 June 2008 features new initiatives, supplier news, awards and newly published reports. New websites and web tools: Department of Health revises Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool A revised Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool is to be launched to help areas identify local health inequalities and […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 02.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 2 May 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, events and awards. Supplier news Ntl:Telewest Business say public sector unsure of 21CN benefits Research by ntl:Telewest Business with health trust telecoms managers has found that the majority are in the dark about BT’s £10 billion plans […]
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iSoft signs £5m deal with GHG
iSoft has signed a new £5m deal to become a strategic health information technology partner of the private healthcare firm, General Healthcare Group (GHG). The six-year deal will see GHG license and implement iSoft’s patient management (iPM) systems at its 47 BMI Healthcare private acute care hospitals and its Netcare centres. Additional services will be […]
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Infrastructure gap between NHS trusts growing
The gap between the best and the worst NHS trusts on the effectiveness of their IT infrastructure and operations is growing.
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Tories would end projects like NHS ‘supercomputer’
Conservative party leader, David Cameron promised today that if his party was elected there would be no more IT projects “like Labour’s hubristic NHS supercomputer”. Addressing the National Endowment for Science, Technology and Arts in London yesterday, Cameron attacked the Labour Party’s commitment to large scale, centralised systems. “The basic reason for the problems [in […]
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