City and Hackney shares patient data securely
City and Hackney Teaching PCT in Central London has installed comprehensive security software which, it is hoped, will improve security and confidentiality of transferable patient data. The system, CheckPoint’s VPN-1R Pro, allows the information infrastructure at the PCT to be available to GPs, pharmacists, dentists and optometrists across City and Hackney. According to CheckPoint, the […]
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Outside the inbox
Chris Booth, who has been working with SMS and healthcare for several years, says that text messaging can do more than reducing DNAs; it’s an effective tool for patient engagement.
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Doctors’ belief in NHS IT project fading
Doctors’ enthusiasm for the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has declined sharply over the past 12 months, with the steepest decline occurring among GPs. A tracking survey of 900 hospital doctors and GPs, published today, found there has been a precipitous decline in GPs support for the IT modernisation programme over the past six […]
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GPs say they are not being listened to
Lack of consultation and the threat to GPs existing computer systems are the biggest failings of the National Programme for IT and the ones that has angered most GPs, according to feedback from GPs who were questioned in the latest survey by Medix-UK. Out of the 900 doctors who took part in the survey, 191 […]
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PR heavyweight appointed to sell NHS CRS
The NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) has appointed communications consultancy giant Porter Novelli, part of the global marketing conglomerate Omnicom, to help deliver staff and public information campaigns about the NHS Care Records Service (CRS). Porter Novelli, one of the top seven PR agencies internationally, will help to deliver public information campaigns about […]
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Can you keep a secret?
Subtle changes in the way patient confidentiality in electronic health records is handled slipped out last week. E-Health Insider looks at their implications.
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Can you keep a secret?
Subtle changes in the way patient confidentiality in electronic health records is handled slipped out last week. EHI Primary Care looks at their implications.
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This time it’s personal
Why do we need electronic health records, anyway? Gerry Yantis and Manuel Lowenhaupt of CapGemini argue that the challenges faced in implementing them shouldn’t detract from their importance.
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Autism care charity installs document security
A regional charitable trust that provides residential care and education for people in the south-west of England with autism and Asperger’s syndrome has implemented a document security system which is also used by the military. Spectrum, also known as Devon and Cornwall Autistic Community Trust, operates around 23 homes across the south-west of England and […]
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Criticism unhealthy for NPfIT, says Granger
The director general of NHS IT, Richard Granger, has spoken out against critics of the National Programme for IT, saying that many charges are just “plain wrong” and that a “toxic environment" is in danger of developing. “If we are not very careful”, said Granger in an interview with the Financial Times, “fewer people will […]
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