Wales increases telemedicine spend
Hospitals across Wales are to be given a share of almost £33m to buy new telemedicine equipment and improve patient facilities, Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has announced. New teleconferencing equipment will link more hospitals across Wales enabling patients to benefit from telemedicine, as well as diagnostic equipment such as an MRI scanners, x-ray and […]
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ISPs could do better on data quality
Independent sector providers (ISPs) of NHS care have improved data submissions needed to track quality of care, but there are still ‘significant’ issues requiring attention, a new report says. The report, from the NHS Information Centre, analysed the data quality of submissions and identified key areas for improvement. It says that the data issues need […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 01.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 1 February 2008, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and appointments. Supplier news King Fahd Medical City uses Orion’s Rhapsody The King Fahd Medical City (KFMC) in Saudi Arabia has adopted the Rhapsody Integration Engine to provide faster and more reliable communication between its computer […]
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Fujitsu integrate JAC pharmacy at Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust has become the first trust to receive a JAC pharmacy system from local service provider Fujitsu, integrated with its Cerner Millennium patient administration system. The JAC system is now being offered as one of Fujitsu’s best of breed options until similar functionality becomes available within Millennium. The JAC system originally […]
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North Tees emergency unit opens with wireless
Emergency staff at the University Hospital of North Tees are using wireless technology to treat patients at their bedside and monitor bed occupancy in the hospital’s new emergency assessment unit. The new unit uses the trust’s wireless network to allow staff to use a mobile workstation at the patient’s bedside. An electronic whiteboard has also […]
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Taunton go-live with Cerner Millennium
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has become the eighth site in the South of England to go-live with the Cerner Millennium patient administration system under the National Programme for IT. The trust went live with Millennium Release 0, delivered by local service provider Fujitsu, on the weekend of 15-16 December. In a statement the […]
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Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure
Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database – the summary care record – will make them insecure, according to a survey for the Times. Asked what level of confidence they had that central health records will be secure, 80% of GP respondents said […]
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Ex-CfH CTO’s firm earns £46.3m from NPfIT
An IT consultant who worked as Chief Technology Officer of NHS Connecting for Health for three years is also the senior partner of an IT consultancy firm – ASE Consulting – that has so far earned over £46m from the NHS IT Programme in consultancy fees. E-Health Insider has learned that Alan Duncan McNeil, who […]
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IT vital to deliver care closer to home, DH says
Fast and efficient communication between primary and secondary care systems is needed to enable care to be delivered closer to home, the Department of Health says in its new ‘Shifting Care Closer to Home’ report. “Technology is supporting the effective delivery of integrated care closer to home, and freeing up consultant time to manage more […]
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