Updated version of SNOMED CT released
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation has announced that a new version of SNOMED CT is now available. The international release, which is the second this year, has a series of refinements aimed at enabling clinicians to continue working with IT systems with minimal disruption to their daily routines. Revisions to the international version […]
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GPs shape the future of health IT
In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Peter Short, one of the agency’s national clinical leads for GPs, discusses some key issues for the profession.
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GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’
Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to ‘scan and save’.
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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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NHS CfH joins open source health collaboration
Open Health Tools has announced a collaborative effort between national health agencies, major healthcare providers, international standards organizations and companies from Australia, Canada, the UK and the US to develop common healthcare IT products and services. NHS IT agency NHS Connecting for Health is one of the members of the international collaboration. Other members of […]
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Pharmacists may get access to patient care records
The government has announced it will investigate how community pharmacy access to the NHS Care Records Service could be achieved. The news comes despite BMA concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of extending access to an additional professional group working in the commercial sector. The newly-published white paper on community pharmacy, Pharmacy in England: […]
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Data recording may explain trust’s high death rate
An inadequate system for recording and coding data on patients has been blamed by Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust for its mortality rates coming under investigation by the Healthcare Commission. England’s healthcare watchdog announced that the trust’s mortality rate was higher than the national average, and that the commission was concerned about the effectiveness of […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 08.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 8 February 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, and events. Supplier news COA wins £3.6m NHSScotland deal COA Solutions has won a £3.6m contract to supply all 22 Scottish health boards with a comprehensive portfolio of financial, procurement support, business intelligence and document management software […]
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Eighty trusts sign up to ‘scan and save’
The GS1 asset tracking technology in use. Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that almost eighty NHS trusts across England have signed up for to its ‘scan and save’ initiative for automatically tracking and tracing sterile surgical instruments. The wireless wristband and barcode-based technologies allows hospitals to trace the complete life […]
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PCTs to lead on NHS IMandT development
The NHS operating framework for 2008-2009 says that in the coming year local NHS organisations will be expected to build on the National Programme for IT local ownership programme (NLOP) with PCTs required to “further develop their leadership role”. It states that during the course of the current year “the transfer of resources from central […]
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