Patient safety tops IT priorities in CIO poll
Implementing information technology to reduce medical errors and promote patient safety remains the top priority for healthcare chief information officers (CIO) surveyed in a major US poll. The 18th Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) survey of CIOs found that safety issues remained the respondents’ prime concern both for now and for the future. […]
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Rio rolls out in West London trust
West London Mental Health NHS Trust rolled out the Rio clinical information system after an implementation involving 91,000 records and 250,000 clinical documents. First implemented last October on a restricted basis, the trust has now expanded the system to all its clinical teams, with 500-600 trained users now in action. West London’s director of IM&T, […]
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Follow my lead
Michael Cross looks at how NPfIT is lead by wider government priorities and who the real driving force behind the project is.
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Singapore’s National Healthcare Group buys Soarian
Siemens Medical Solutions has signed a major deal with Singapore’s National Healthcare Group (NHG) for an enterprise-wide implementation of its next generation Soarian electronic patient record (EPR) solution. NHG, one of Sinapore’s two public healthcare provider networks, will implement the full Soarian Electronic Patient Record system over the next two years, including the Computerised Clinician […]
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Doctor tagged with RFID worries about privacy
An A&E doctor and CIO who has had an RFID tag implanted into his arm on which his medical reference number is encoded has expressed concerns about lack of privacy standards and erosion of his anonymity. John Halamka, chief information officer at Harvard Medical School, had the VeriChip tag encased in an unbreakable glass capsule […]
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NWWM faces £75m potential liabilities on SAS scheme
The NHS faces total potential liabilities of up to £75m in the North West and West Midlands (NWWM) cluster of the NHS if it fails to second key IT staff to the prime IT contractor for the region, CSC Alliance. Evidence suggests that some trusts are struggling to find secondees and may have to consider […]
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Cabinet Office denies Watmore to take helm at NPfIT
The Cabinet Office and National Programme for IT have moved swiftly today to deny suggestions that Ian Watmore, the Government’s first Chief Information Officer, is poised to take the helm at the NHS IT modernisation project. The prediction that Watmore was about to take a greater hand in steering the NPfIT was made in this […]
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NHS CRS delayed by nine months in South
The delivery schedule for the core NHS Care Records Service (CRS) solution in the South of England has slipped by nine months. The key release that will start to deliver clinical functionality such as order communications is now not due until June 2006 at the earliest. E-Health Insider has learned that the Southern Cluster Implementation […]
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National programme caught in spinal trap
With less than four weeks to go to the first scheduled release from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), highly credible industry sources suggest that the 27 June deadline for P1R1 (phase one release one) of the programme may be missed or only partially met. P1R1 covers the patient demographic service to be made available […]
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Poaching of staff from NHS is a reality
With the NHS in the midst of the largest ever IT investment programme, staff with the right skills and experience are at a premium, but can NHS organisations attract and retain these key staff? And is the gentleman’s no poaching agreement between local service providers and the NHS actually working? At last week’s E-Health Insider […]
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