Scottish LMCs demand action on IT choice
Scottish GPs have strongly criticised the delay in procuring a choice of GP IT systems and called for funding for the GPASS system to be released to NHS boards. Last week’s Scottish Local Medical Committees’ conference passed a motion stating that it “deplores the slow progress in procuring a choice of national IT systems following […]
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Smart phones for Powys nurses
District nurses in Powys have been issued with smart phones as part of a project to enable community staff to record patient data electronically. The Community Health Across Agencies Project aims to provide community staff with mobile technology to eradicate duplicate data entry, provide better management information and enable links with GP, hospital and national […]
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Scotland invests in telehealthcare
Scotland has launched its biggest telehealthcare project alongside 16 other e-health initiatives that will be backed by £1.6m of investment. NHS Lothian and the Scottish Government are to jointly fund a £700,000 large scale telehealth trial that will cover 400 patients with long term conditions, using Intel’s Health Guide. In addition, the government and Atos […]
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Child health strategy to share information
The government plans to promote information sharing across settings to deliver improvements in the health of children and young people, according to a strategy published this week. Healthy lives, brighter futures: the strategy for children and young people’s health says feedback from frontline staff suggests they sometimes feel constrained as to when they can share […]
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Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients
More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Making a Detailed Care Record a reality
Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care Detailed Care Record has been delivered.
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Paediatrics application system glitch
National software used by doctors to apply for specialist training posts in paediatrics has been suspended after faults were discovered with the system. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said it had experienced a technical problem with its online recruitment system and closed the application process temporarily. The RCPCH discovered that “in a […]
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HL7 releases child health EHR standard
Health Level Seven (HL7), the healthcare IT standards development organisation, has released the first standard specifying the key functional requirements for child healthcare in an electronic health record (EHR) system. The HL7 child health functional profile for EHR systems, builds on the HL7 EHR system functional model. It is the first for children approved by […]
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CSW Health goes into administration
Health IT firm CSW Group Ltd, the owners of CSW Health, the Oxford-based specialist in XML-based software applications, has been placed into administration. The development leaves the future support of a system used by ten London primary care trusts to monitor child vaccinations unclear. It also appears to throw a spanner into plans to develop […]
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‘Live Eight’ with Fujitsu until mid-2009
NHS trusts in the South of England may find themselves reliant on Fujitsu to provide key systems a full year after the firm’s NHS contract was ended.
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