New report sets out need for e-prescribing
A new report from the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer on the causes of medicines safety has spelt out the critical role that electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems can play in reducing medication errors. ‘Building a Safer NHS for Patients: Improving Medication Safety’ describes standards of prescribing in the NHS as high. However, it stresses mistakes can arise […]
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PASA chief pledges co-operation on bar codes
Chief executive of the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA), Duncan Eaton, has formally pledged to work with supply chain standards authority, e.centre, to encourage the adoption of standardised bar coding systems across the whole of the NHS supply. Eaton, who will take a place on e.centre’s supervisory board, believes it is essential that the […]
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Primary care IT Manhattan style
Andrew Harrison, whose career change took him from computer programming to hospital medicine, continues his occasional series with some notes from a recent trip to the US where he visited a practice renowned for its celebrity patients and dynamic IT. I have often wondered how America medical practices compare to those in the UK with […]
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Placing XML at the Heart of Hospital Trust’s IM&T Strategy
Following E-Health Insider s XML in health feature two week s ago, Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, sets out how his trust has used XML to develop extremely low cost ‘best of breed’ solutions to integrate systems and improve clinical care. Information Technology at Wrightington, Wigan & […]
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Good Hope Hospital Buys Oasis PAS
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust has signed a contract with Siemens Healthcare Services to provide it with a new Patient Administration System (PAS). The new system will be provided as a managed service and will be based on the Oasis PAS system, supplied by Siemens partner, Capula Elan. Features of the Oasis PAS systems to […]
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The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You (part 2)
Last week, E-Health Insider published a round-up of comments from readers on the apparent new hard line on suppliers being adopted by NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger –The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You. Since then your emails have continued to roll in. One reader emailed to ask about our readership: "Has anyone […]
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The 12 Days of Christmas IT
Thanks to everyone who entered our Christmas wish list competition. Phil Graham, head of information management and technology at Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust, is a worthy winner with his variation on the 12 Days of Christmas that is bound to strike a chord with many readers. His prize is a bottle of […]
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ComMedica Claims First in Use of SNOMED CT
EPR systems vendor, ComMedica, this week claimed a UK “first” by announcing that it had incorporated SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) into its PiRiLiS system. The company, a spin out from Imperial College, London, says, “The integration will mean that ComMedica can offer an EPR environment in which the terminology for hundreds of thousands of clinical […]
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SNOMED Adds Nursing Terms
The American College of Pathologists has signed an agreement to integrate detailed nursing interventions and outcomes classifications into the College’s SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) product. Though the announcement focuses nursing concepts developed in the US it could have significance for the NHS, which is thought to be inching towards adopting SNOMED CT as […]
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SNOMED International Introduces Clinical Terms First Release
SNOMED has announced the launch of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED(R) CT) First Release, the clinical coding terminology that the NHS has part funded and chosen as its preferred clinical terminology tool for coding electronic clinical data. The new terminology, developed by a division of the College of American Pathologists, is said to be the most comprehensive […]
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