Capita buys Clinical Solutions for £20m
Capita has announced the acquisition of Clinical Solutions, a provider of clinical decision support and clinical content products for healthcare professionals, for £20m cash.
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Trusts ‘treat IG return as box-ticking’
Too many trusts are using the Information Governance Toolkit return as a tick-box exercise rather than as a means to ensure that confidential information is safe, a conference has heard. Tony Cobain, head of IM&T for Mersey Internal Audit and Assurance, told the CHKS annual user group conference in London that about a third of trusts […]
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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CHKS acquired by Capita for £11.6m
UK healthcare intelligence specialist CHKS has been bought by outsourcing specialist Capita Group Plc for £11.6m. CHKS specialises in providing data, coding and performance analysis services to NHS organisations. The sale was made by CHKS parent Healthcare Knowledge International, a European benchmarking performance and analysis information provider. In the financial year to 31 December 2008 […]
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Tories promise NHS information revolution
The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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Six trusts win awards for safety and quality
Healthcare intelligence specialists CHKS Group has presented six NHS trusts across Great Britain with awards recognising outstanding achievement in patient safety, quality of care and data quality. Four trusts across Britain were awarded for excellence in clinical coding – East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust for England, NHS Tayside for Scotland, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust […]
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Chester to survey patients on outcomes
The Countess of Chester NHS Trust has signed up to a patient reported outcomes programme run by analytical benchmarking company, CHKS. The hospital has joined the programme in order to listen to patients’ views on the treatment it delivers, and use responses to improve processes and quality of care. Data will be used to help […]
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Results may vary
Geoff Bick, director of product development at data analysis software firm CHKS, shows how wide variations in hospitals’ approach to data management present challenges for Payment by Results.
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