iSoft goes live with results reporting in Ireland
iSoft have announced that it is rolling out its iPM results reporting module across all sites in the Bon Secours private hospital group in Ireland following a successful six-month pilot. The pilot of the browser-based results access system took place across five wards in the 343-bed Cork site. Previously, test results were distributed twice daily […]
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Clinicians warn CRS will damage confidentiality
Concerns about the negative impact that the planned national database of patient records, the NHS Care Record Service national record, will have on patient confidentiality have been voiced by frontline doctors, Writing in the British Medical Journal several doctors set out their concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of the creation one database containing the […]
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Doctors test out RFID system for handovers
Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers. David Morgan, consultant ENT surgeon at the trust, who is also surgical safety adviser to the National Patient Safety Agency, explained the system to the Clinical Care Computing conference in London last week. Birmingham Heartlands […]
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Sealed envelope safety risk raised by BMA
Doctors have raised concerns that Connecting for Health proposals to allow patients to hide some information in sealed envelopes puts patient safety at risk. Representatives at the British Medical Association’s annual meeting backed a motion which claimed that allowing patients to keep some medical information confidential from other doctors “may lead to significant patient safety […]
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Tablet tests
How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and an EPR manager review the Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook P1510.
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Lengthy delivery for NPfIT maternity systems
The delivery of new maternity systems as part of the NHS IT programme has stalled, E-Health Insider has learned. Not a single hospital has yet received a new system, and a leading obstetrician has warned that the delays are creating potential “clinical risks” to mothers and children. The lengthy delays to maternity software are causing […]
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City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the specification and development of a new module by US vendor, Meditech, which has been extensively anglicised for the UK, plus a programme of business change by clinical staff. David Miller, business manager for pharmacy at […]
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Honour for health informatics technical director
Technical director of Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS), Pete Marsh has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Wirral is one of the leading trusts in the health informatics field and has pioneered developments in areas such as electronic records and e-prescribing. Marsh has been part of the workforce at Wirral Hospital […]
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US conference gets a reality check on NPfIT
Former National Programme for IT industry liaison manager, Phil Sissons, delivered a transatlantic reality check this week, exposing some of the warts in the £6.2 billion programme to an American audience, US correspondent Neil Versel reports from the 22nd annual Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference in Baltimore. In a keynote address this week, […]
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Patient records may only be shared locally, say CfH
Detailed electronic patient records will not be accessible outside the local groups of organisations that created them, in direct contradiction of the government’s vision of records available “wherever and whenever you need them”, it has emerged. An internal document produced by Connecting for Health reveals that although its proposed consent model would allow clinicians across […]
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