Its name is RiO
The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health outlines the benefits of the RiO electronic care records system to London.
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IT underpins NHS reform in Queen’s speech
The government is planning to introduce a health bill to Parliament that will require further investment in IT and new information services for the public, the Queen’s speech has confirmed. The National Health Service Reform Bill will give the NHS its first, ever written constitution, drive forward the government’s quality and choice agendas, and strengthen […]
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Left to their own devices?
An E-Health Insider survey has revealed a mixed picture on mobile device security. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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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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Child immunisation software ‘creating risks’
The interim child health system in London is creating risks to the effective running of the childhood immunisation programme, according to PCTs.
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Concern over encryption for practice-owned IT
GP representatives are concerned that GP practices that have bought their own desktops and mobile devices may miss out on encryption software bought for the NHS. Earlier this year, NHS Connecting for Health announced a deal with security software specialist McAfee to supply 700,000 licences for data encryption software to the NHS. This was part […]
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DH backs away from 084 telephone ban
The Department of Health has no immediate plans to ban use of 084 numbers in the NHS, health minister Ben Bradshaw has indicated. In a letter to Rob Marris MP, the health minister gave no indication that the use of such numbers by GP practices and organisations such as NHS Direct would be prohibited. Instead […]
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Holland aims for electronic child records
All child healthcare providers will have to introduce electronic patient records by the end of 2009. André Rouvoet, the Dutch minister for youth and family, has said all institutions and bodies dealing with the healthcare of children must be using electronic patient files by the end of 2009. The minister set out the requirement in […]
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ContactPoint delayed for further testing
The introduction of the national children’s database ContactPoint has been delayed until January 2009. The pilot of the delayed programme was to have begun in October. The delay is the second postponement of the system that was originally due to have gone live in spring 2008. The project was delayed in November 2007 to a […]
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Police to get access to national child database
Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal activity.
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