Work underway to fix records problem in iPM
A problem has been identified in iSoft’s iPM patient administration software, which, under certain circumstances, can lead to patients’ electronic records not being correctly updated and records becoming unviewable by NHS staff. Efforts are now underway to try and identify effected patient records, restore missing data and put the problem right. Official guidance has also […]
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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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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS
Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient administration system (PAS) connected to the national NHS spine. The implementation marks a genuine milestone for Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT); BT, NPfIT’s prime contractor for London; and […]
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Birmingham PCTs sign up for Pfizer self-care project
Two PCTs in Birmingham are to be the first in the UK to implement a community self-care project in which patients with diabetes and other long-term conditions will receive regular telephone support at home by trained community nurses. The OwnHealth project, which will be run by UK Pfizer Health Solutions in conjunction with NHS Direct, will […]
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40 business cases for PACS signed off
Forty business cases for picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) in the NHS in England have been signed off and completed and a new toolkit is to be made available shortly to support trusts in the implementation of the new systems. David Jennings, NHS Connecting for Health’s national PACS implementation manager, announced the figures at […]
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Renal patients get online records
Health minister Rosie Winterton is to unveil a new site for renal patients that will allow them to manage their conditions online and even view test results. The Renal Patient View (RPV) site, developed by the Renal Exchange Group, has been beta testing in a number of renal units since the end of last year. […]
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Birmingham hospital upgrades servers for NPfIT
University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has installed new servers and support infrastructure in order to pave the way for the National Programme for IT. Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, a Dell EMC CX700 storage area network (SAN) and a number of Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers were installed at the hospital, which has 6,500 employees. Peter […]
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Major ministerial reshuffle for health
John Hutton, the health minister whose responsibilities included NHS IT, has been promoted in the post-election reshuffle. He enters the new cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the formal title for the minister for the Cabinet Office. He will head up the department where the government’s chief information officer, Ian Watmore, works monitoring […]
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