Bristol Chooses Paris Records System
Bristol City Council, the largest unitary authority in England, has selected supplier in4tek to supply its Paris electronic record systems and IT solutions from in4tek to support Bristol’s Social Services and Health Department’s goal of delivering integrated care. The integrated records system will be introduced over the next two years, beginning with a six month pilot […]
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Torex Wins Contracts at Two Shared Services Sites
Torex Health has been awarded five year contracts to implement Oracle financial services software at two shared services centres due to open in autumn this year. The centres at Bristol and South Leeds will provide a range of financial services to various NHS organisations including acute, primary care and ambulance trusts in two UK regions […]
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New Quality Mark Launched for Health Information
A new website and "Triangle Mark" have been launched by the Centre for Health Information Quality (C-H-i-Q’s) to help raise standards for online and offline health information. The new site Hi Quality, has been backed by Department of Health funding , and was developed as part of C-H-i-Q’s quality assurance programme, recently implemented across all […]
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New Special HA Planned to Run Shared Services
A new special health authority is planned for the end of 2002 to run the NHS Shared Services Initiative, it was announced today. The initiative, which was launched in October 1999, is responsible for large scale projects which use advanced technology to provide shared, non-core services across the NHS. The aim is to run functions […]
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Government Response to Kennedy Throws Spotlight on Information
A new Office of Information on Health Care Performance is to be set up as part of the government response to the Kennedy Report’s recommendations. The new office will be positioned within the Commission for Health Improvement and will publish “star” ratings to compare the performance of NHS organisations against national targets. Other key measures […]
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2001: The Year the Money Disappeared
The NHS has stood at the cusp in 2001, its stark failures were laid bare by the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry and Shipman reports, and yet it was also the year in which a re-elected Labour Government pledged unprecedented investment in the service. Though the IT agenda has attracted few headlines, it has permeated both […]
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Biggest Benefits Yet to Come for e-Pharma
Conservatism has served the pharmaceutical industry well in the early stages of the Internet revolution, but it now needs to furiously innovate and even sometimes "fail" to harness the potential of new technology. While many other industries were swept along by the hype and early promise of e-commerce the pharmaceutical industry largely took a more […]
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