Philosophical Response to Blackberd’s Grounding
A philosophical response greeted the news that the Black Country and Birmingham Electronic Records Development project – Blackberd to its friends – had been cancelled. The work done on the project, which was run by the Birmingham and Black Country Strategic Health Authority, will be used by the National Programme for IT in the NHS. […]
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New Portal Opens Doors to ECDL
A new web portal for NHS staff offering basic skills training in IT and preparation for the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) will go live on March 21. The NHS Information Authority says the new portal, at http://www.ecdl.nhs.uk , will provide staff who need to improve their IT skills with a range of resources including […]
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Blackberd Announces Long-list of Suppliers
Blackberd, the collaborative procurement of electronic record systems by 12 trusts in Birmingham and the Black Country has announced the long-list of seven Prime Service Providers (PSPs) for the £250m project. The Blackberd collaboration is seen as a key project to demonstrate how many local NHS organisations can collaborate on core IT developments central to […]
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Poole Wins HSJ Technology Award
Poole Hospital NHS Trust has won a Health Service Journal management award in the category for improving care with e-technology. The prize, sponsored by BT, was awarded for the trust’s development of an XML-based electronic patient record system. The trust, together with its technology partner Graphnet, has implemented an EPR system that now has more […]
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MedicDirect Launches Sports Health Channel
Leading UK health information website www.medicdirect.co.uk which currently supplies many of the leading Internet Service ’s and broadcasters including Tiscali, NTL, GMTV and AOL with much of their health channel content, have launched a new sports health and fitness channel www.medicdirectsport.com . Medicdirectsport provides a unique sports health and fitness resource, providing users with access to […]
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Live Testing of NHS Electronic Staff Records Begins
The live testing of a new national pay and personnel system for the, was launched on Friday at University Hospital Birmingham by Health Minister, Lord Philip Hunt. The National Shared Services Initiative’s Electronic Staff Record (ESR) will deliver an integrated human resources and payroll system across England and Wales, replacing the range of outdated systems […]
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Combined Government Gateway Review Due for IT Programme
The National NHS IT Programme is scheduled to be submitted to a combined Government Gateway review by the end of October, with a full business case then due to be submitted to Treasury for approval by November. The latest version of the timetable for the National IT Programme was detailed by Jeremy Thorp, the NHS […]
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Dramatic Funding Increase in Store for NHS IT
A “dramatic increase” in funding to modernise NHS IT is anticipated – but there’s still no word on the overall figure. That was the message from Professor Sir John Pattison, the DH’s director of research, information and analysis to the Quality Information Solutions 2002 conference in Birmingham this week ”Funds would be highly centralised, ring-fenced […]
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“Scope for Improvement” on NHS e-Procurement
Only 14% of NHS trusts have fully integrated computer systems capable of managing electronic requisitioning, ordering, invoice matching and payment, according to an Audit Commission review of procurement and supply. The commission says that significant improvements have been made in the priority given to procurement and supply since its 1996 report, Goods for Your Health, […]
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Switching on Lightbulb
Early birds who rose in time for an HC 2002 breakfast meeting were rewarded with an account of the preparatory work underway on IT for cancer services in Birmingham with Lightbulb, the IT vendors’ group working to produce joined-up healthcare using web-based services. Colin Innes, director of IM&T for Birmingham health authority, told E-Health Insider, […]
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