Vision users told they cannot be forced to switch
The National Vision User Group (NVUG), the independent body that represents users of InPractice Systems Vision primary care system has written to all Vision users to emphasise that there is no basis for anyone to force practices to switch away from using the Vision system. Published by the NVUG after a national meeting in early […]
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Care record board to focus on communication
The new chair of the Care Record Development Board who is charged with the task of engaging stakeholders in the evolution of the new electronic record admits that it looks as though communication has not been as effective as it should be. Harry Cayton, who is also the Department of Health’s patients’ tsar, told his first […]
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Why GPs face Hobson’s choice
An exclusive interview with Sean Riddell, deputy managing director of EMIS, about how he believes that GPs are being denied the choice of systems promised to them under the GP contract.
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The impact of the new National Care Record Service (NCRS) on primary care.
Kingsley Manning, Chief Executive of Newchurch Limited, discusses far-reaching effects that the National Care Record Service will have on primary care.
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EMIS users urged to protest about systems choice
The head of the EMIS National User Group (NUG) has written to all EMIS users calling on them to lobby their MPs, local Primary Care Trusts or Local Medical Committees to express their concerns about National Programme for IT (NPfIT) strategy on choice of GP systems. The letter from Dr Manpreet Pujara, chair of EMIS NUG, […]
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EMIS hits back at ‘speculation and misrepresentation’
Leading UK primary care IT supplier EMIS has issued new guidance to practices using its systems stating the firm’s long-term commitment to the NHS market and to continue to invest in developing its systems, despite not being an official supplier under the National Programme for IT. In a letter to users the company’s directors state: […]
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Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern
Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the five National Programme for IT (NPfIT) clusters, it now seems certain that contracts for at least two clusters will now be awarded to Agfa rather than GE Medical Systems as originally thought. An NPfIT spokesperson […]
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Tele-echography robot allows remote patient scans
A university research team has developed a robotic device that allows a doctor to examine a patient in a remote location by ultrasound, with the scans relayed back to the doctor in real-time. E-Health Insider has been the first in the UK to see OTELO (mObile Tele-Echography system using an ultra-Light rObot) in action. It […]
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Private hospital begins radiography IT modernisation
A private hospital in Kent has invested in a computed radiography (CR) system, as part of the first stage of “a wider digital imaging strategy". The technology, which was supplied to Chelsfield Park Hospital, near Orpington, by Kodak, comes in several parts. The Directview CR 850 System processes the images from cassette and can send […]
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More information about Read Codes demise released
The NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) have revealed more details to E-Health Insider about the abolition of Read Codes in favour of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), stating that all support calls for Read Codes after January 2006 “will receive a low priority". “SNOMED CT is at the cutting edge of clinical vocabularies and will offer choice and […]
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