TPP moves on secondary care
TPP has launched a series of SystmOne modules covering acute hospitals, community hospitals, mental health, social services and out-of-hours care.
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Tower Hamlets drops RiO for EMIS Web
A London primary care trust has opted out of NHS Connecting for Health plans to install the community and child health system RiO, deciding instead to use EMIS Web across primary and community care. The move by NHS Tower Hamlets means the PCT is breaking away from the London Programme for IT’s ‘best of breed’ solution for […]
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World wide EMIS Web
EMIS is not backward about coming forward with its next generation system, EMIS Web. Fiona Barr reports.
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Community quality indicators launched
The Department of Health has launched more than 70 proposed quality indicators for community services alongside six guides to transforming community services. The guides include advice on how IT can be harnessed to improve patient care, particularly through the sharing of information. On end of life care, the examples of actions with the greatest potential […]
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EMIS Web links to secondary care
Leading GP IT system supplier EMIS has unveiled its next generation IT system EMIS Web, promising interoperability with primary and secondary care providers. EMIS claims the system will set a new standard for the NHS, by enabling clinicians outside general practice to access a patient’s GP medical record, view other patient information recorded on the […]
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Excellence in healthcare information management
The winner of the healthcare information management category was University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. The runners up in the category, sponsored by IMS Health, were CSC and Liverpool Primary Care Trust.
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EMIS unveils EMIS Web
Leading GP IT system supplier EMIS has unveiled its next generation IT system EMIS Web, ahead of an official launch in the autumn.
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Southern NHS trusts get systems of choice
NHS trusts in the South of England are to be offered a choice of systems and to have them funded as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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NHS Choices may increase inequality
Relying on online sources such as NHS Choices to deliver information to patients could lead the NHS to sustain or even increase health inequalities, a new report warns. The authors says the government’s policy is to give patients better access to information but that the internet may not be the most effective way of doing […]
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Industry round-up 22.06.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Indian buyers seek out UK market Buyers representing hospitals in India will come to the UK next week in search of new medical equipment, supplies and healthcare services. More than 50 UK healthcare and medical technology […]
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