Study shows ROI on mobile technology in NHS
A study jointly commissioned by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Connecting for Health into the impact of mobile technology in acute clinical environments has identified significant potential time and resource savings. The findings suggest that investment in mobile networks, devices and wireless-enabled applications can deliver a measurable return on investment (ROI) for healthcare […]
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Liverpool trust rejects delayed PACS
A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of a Connecting for Health (CfH) Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), due to delays and technical problems with the system. Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust told E-Health Insider that it had taken […]
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ETP potential
EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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Granger answers Choose and Book critics
NHS IT chief, Richard Granger, says that low usage of the Choose and Book system is not something he can do anything about. Granger said in a wide-ranging interview in Computing magazine: “The core application is there, does what it was asked to do and was delivered on time. “There have been some configuration problems, […]
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First live GP2GP record transfer
The first live electronic transfer of a patient’s record between GPs using GP2GP record transfer has occurred under the NHS National Programme for IT. A full patient record was transferred between the Whickam Heath Centre practice to the Chainbridge House practice, both in Gateshead on Tyneside, via the NHS spine. The transfer was made between two […]
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International standards organisation for SNOMED proposed
SNOMED International, an arm of The College of American Pathologists (CAP) and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency in charge of NHS IT modernisation, have announced plans to establish an international Standards Development Organistion to promote SNOMED CT. The aim is to create an international standards organisation that will enable countries and national authorities to take a […]
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James Paget gets outsider PACS
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust in Norfolk has become the first hospital trust in England to go live with an out-of-cluster PACS system – one supplied by a local service provider from outside the trust’s region. Although the trust sits within the Eastern region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), last Thursday it […]
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Microsoft claims SharePoint success in NHS
Microsoft has announced that the number of users of its SharePoint collaboration and filesharing technology in the NHS has increased 25-fold since it signed an enterprise-wide agreement with Connecting for Health. The software, which became heavily discounted to NHS users in May 2004 as part of a wider enterprise-wide agreement, allows organisations to share and […]
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IMS offers Choose and Book solution
IMS Maxims has announced the immediate availability of its Integrated Choose And Book (ICAB) system which enables NHS and independent healthcare providers with older patient administration systems to start offering date and time slots to the central Choose and Book service and take bookings by return. The system could help trusts break through the barriers […]
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RCGP ethics committee recommends opt-in for NCRS
The ethics committee of the Royal College of GPs has recommended that patients must have the right to opt-in to the sharing of information via the NHS Care Records Service. If ratified, the decision would put the college at odds with NHS Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board which has adopted an opt-out model. The recommendation, which will […]
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