New post-Shipman information guidelines issued
The government has released new guidelines on the use of information to ensure NHS organisations have systems and processes in place to protect patient safety. The guidelines form part of the Safeguarding Patients report, released yesterday in response to the fifth Shipman inquiry report, initially released in December 2004. This week’s report also takes into account […]
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‘Secret’ record allegations under investigation
The attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, is to investigate allegations that a consultant paediatrician used by the courts as an expert witness, kept thousands of secret files and tampered with children’s medical records from criminal cases he worked on in the last decade. A General Medical Council investigation into the controversial paediatrician Professor David Southall has revealed […]
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DH embraces wireless safety technologies
A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by health minister Lord Hunt. The Department of Health believes that auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) technology has the potential to tackle mismatching errors in particular, as well as bringing other efficiencies and cost savings. Lord […]
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Storm over Fujitsu executive’s ‘honest’ NPfIT remarks
A senior executive from local service provider to the Southern cluster, Fujitsu, has said that the intense pressure suppliers are under to deliver short-terms risks the wider aims of the NHS National Programme for IT systems, resulting in a danger of it delivering “a camel, and not the racehorse that we might try to produce.” […]
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West Middlesex deploys cancer pathway CIS
In a bid to get better cancer datasets, West Middlesex University Hospital has begun implementation of a new clinical information system (CIS) called Cepia, developed by Dataline Healthcare Solutions.. Cepia is a web-enabled CIS that enables healthcare users to create, record and clearly visualise the movement of cancer patients through their clinical pathway. It has […]
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Patients can carry records on secure smartcard
Patients in London can now have their medical histories handy wherever they are, by uploading them onto a new USB plug-in smartcard called the Health eCard. Buying the card should enable patients to show their records to any medical professional, saving time and improving consultations when their notes are not available. Jul Kornbluth, managing director […]
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Milton Keynes PCT mandates Choose and Book use
A primary care trust has told its GPs that referral letters sent direct to a local hospital will be returned to be re-sent using Choose and Book. Milton Keynes PCT has said that, with the exception of referrals which cannot currently be made using Choose and Book, all referrals must be done through the e-booking […]
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South Warwickshire authorises shared smartcard use
South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed that its board has agreed that clinicians working in part of its A&E Department can share smartcards to access patient records. The trust passed the policy after deciding that the lengthy log-in times, averaging 60-90 seconds, it takes staff to log-on to the hospital’s new patient administration […]
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals to deploy PACS
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have announced that they are launching a £13m project to deploy PACS in its two hospitals. The new digital imaging service, to be delivered by the Foundation trust’s local service provider, CSC, will provide the trust with high quality digital x-rays and radiological images, such as CT scans. The […]
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Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom
Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom, the leading provider of software to the Irish GP sector. The deal will create one of Ireland’s largest health ICT companies. Under the deal Systems Solutions will acquire the majority stake in Medicom. The resulting […]
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