Code red
Daloni Carlisle reports on how the often neglected discipline of clinical coding is becoming vital to the financial health of NHS trusts, and highlights the spread of ‘upcoding’.
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Bradford gets UK’s first iSOFT pharmacy solution
Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has become the first implementation of iSOFT’s i.Pharmacy software in the UK, a move that the company says paves the way towards its common clinical solution, Lorenzo. The system, a combined medicine supply management and patient record system, was installed in two acute hospital sites and in the care trust, covering 95 […]
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NHS Shared Business Services on launchpad
Xansa has announced that it is to formally launch NHS Shared Business Services, its joint venture with the Department of Health in which some back-office financial services will be computerised and outsourced, on schedule on 1 April 2005. A total of 47 of eligible NHS organisations have signed up for the project. As part of […]
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Internet has blown away library walls
The Internet has blown away the walls of libraries as effectively as Semtex, Dr Muir Gray, director of the National electronic Library for Health, told a conference of NHS IT and informatics professionals in London this week. But the new online world leaves those seeking information about health with a choice of literally thousands of […]
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Fraudster sentenced for selling old-for-new IT to NHS
The former managing director of a Yorkshire computer company has been sentenced to 180 hours community service for selling used computers to the NHS in place of new machines a trust had ordered. Gordon Rae Wallis of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, formerly managing director of Networking Solutions (UK) plc, denied obtaining a money transfer by […]
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Major new lab systems wins for Sysmed and iSOFT
Two major new laboratory systems contracts were announced this week which will bring modernised facilities to Leeds Teaching Hospitals and University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH). Laboratory information system specialist Sysmed Solutions has been chosen to support Whitfield Street Laboratory Ltd (WSL), a new company set up to run the UK’s largest, high volume, […]
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HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News
Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this year. We list below a selection of the new launches, versions and deals announced at Harrogate last week. Click here for a full list of exhibitors. Telemedicine Solutions from Tandberg Tandberg demonstrated its videoconferencing solution, […]
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Mobile e-Procurement Shows the Way on NHS IT
Staff at Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust now send for supplies from handheld computers which also enable them to keep track of orders and deliveries and manage stock. The new system, called WANDER, which has been designed and developed by KPMG Consulting with Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, was launched officially this week by health minister, Lord […]
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