Ethnic minority electronic health library launched
A new NHS Electronic Library for Ethnicity and Health has been launched to help fill gaps in knowledge of how treatments impact on ethnic minorities. The Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health (SLEH) was created by the UK Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity Health and Diversity (CEEHD), based at Warwick Medical School and the Mary Seacole […]
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St George’s switches to ITIL framework
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has rolled out a new Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, based on Connecting for Health’s best practice standards, after an independent review from IT service specialists, Plan-Net. The south London hospital trust approached ITIL specialists Plan-Net to review their current systems and help them to meet the best practice […]
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Wales to receive Map of Medicine
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT programme, has announced that it has secured Map of Medicine, a web-based clinical pathways and knowledge sharing tool, for deployment across Wales. The tool can be used by healthcare professionals to view clinical pathways across several disciplines, including A&E, mental health and palliative care. Managers and commissioners can use […]
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Fujitsu wins CfH support contract
NHS Connecting for Health has awarded Fujitsu the contract to supply its national front line service support desk. The contract, which will last until 2013, will require Fujitsu to set up four call centres in Wakefield, Stevenage, Manchester and Foots Cray in Kent. They will manage an estimated four million calls per year. The support desks […]
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Avon and Wiltshire roll out controlled drug service
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has begun installing web-based software to help manage and track the dispensing of controlled drugs. Ascribe’s Substance Misuse Service is being rolled out in two of the mental health units in the trust; West Wiltshire Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service and North Somerset SDAS, with the next […]
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Birmingham HSCIC staff protest at relocation
Unhappy staff caught up the relocation needed to establish the NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre have protested that the decision to centralise operations in Leeds is proving to be “nothing more than a very expensive exercise in demoralising and alienating” them. A letter sent in December by staff based in the HSCIC’s Birmingham offices and leaked […]
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CfH announces awards for health IT innovation
Entries have opened for the 2006 Health Informatics Accolade Scheme, which aim to reward the innovative use of technology in the NHS for both clinical and non-clinical purposes. NHS Connecting for Health is offering five prizes of £5000 each for organisations that demonstrate innovation in health informatics. Projects will be judged by CfH and professional organisations […]
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Database aims to improve mental healthcare of young
The First Episode of psychosis Research Network (FERN) has awarded a contract to Tribal Technology for development of a mental health database to improve the provision of mental healthcare to young people. Under the contract Tribal Technology will deliver a dedicated database solution to enable FERN to manage its data collection and analysis requirements as […]
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Local trust data overwritten by Choose and Book
E-Health Insider has learned that some hospitals linked to the national Choose and Book appointment booking system are having some local patient record details unexpectedly over-written each time they receive an electronic referral from the NHS spine. As a result, the affected hospitals have to manually re-enter deleted patient details — such as the patient’s […]
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NHS e-health research should focus on patients
Researchers into e-health should be concentrating on long-term change and projects from the patients’ point of view, rather than studying the subject as a short-term phenomenon, according to the results of a wide-ranging survey across NHS stakeholders. Among the research topics suggested were what kind of services patients would consider most useful for electronic ordering […]
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