The Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS)
The quality and outcomes framework (QoF) is designed to reward practices for the quality of care offered to their patients and will be an important part of General Practice income for the next few years.
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Doctors’ support for NPfIT tailing off, says survey
A new survey has revealed that doctors’ support for the aims of the national programme has fallen to 54% from 65% in February, and that the majority of them are still in the dark about its aims. In their biannual poll of doctors, Medix UK asked 400 GPs and 450 hospital doctors about their attitudes to the […]
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BT Syntegra names Axios Systems as help desk partners
Axios Systems’ assyst software has been selected by BT Syntegra as its help desk and IT service management system for the NHS central data ‘spine’ and the London cluster. The service desks will be set up and managed from BT Syntegra’s UK service centre based in Leeds. Ailsa Symeonides, Axios Systems’ sales and marketing director, […]
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Patients need access to electronic records, say academics
Patients can and should have access to their electronic health records, in order to keep them up-to-date and accurate, a year-long study from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) has found. The study, prepared by Claire Harris and Ruth Boaden on behalf of UMIST’s Health Organisations Research Centre, suggests that the […]
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Does Dr Robot usher in new era of metal medics?
From automated call-centre systems to car assembly factories, it seems that wherever you look, a robot is waiting to take a human’s job. Now, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, a robot does the rounds instead of a doctor. Charmingly, with its beige frontage, retro TV screen and pointy antennae, Dr Robot (pictured) wouldn’t look completely […]
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BT to compensate NPfIT for missed N3 targets
BT has been asked to pay the NHS damages for missing two targets in the delivery of its N3 broadband service. A spokesperson for the NPfIT said: “BT has met all but 2 of 56 milestone deliverables with in the first phase of this work. The authority has therefore requested that BT pay an appropriate […]
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NPSA introduces intelligent incident analysis system
The National Patient Safety Agency has awarded the contract for its new analysis and content management to the Cambridge-based software company, Autonomy. The software, also called Autonomy, is integrated into the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS). It uses an ‘intelligent data operating layer’ to filter different kinds of media such as text, audio and video […]
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Doubts raised over first NPfIT delivery deadlines
The leak of a confidential BT document, highlighting “material contractual issues", has raised concerns that the first June delivery dates of the National Programme for IT may prove extremely challenging to meet. Phase one, release one of the national programme, which largely focuses on the first phase of the Data Spine and introduction of electronic […]
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EMIS announces new Alerts Manager
Primary care solutions supplier, EMIS, has announced the launch of a new alerts management system that notifies GPs of actions needed for individual patients, such as blood pressure checks. The company says that EMIS Alerts Manager has been developed to help with everyday practice management and to help GPs meet the requirements of their new […]
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Scottish GPs say GPASS is failing doctors
GPs in Scotland have warned the Scottish Executive that the official Scotland-wide IT system for general practice, GPASS, is failing doctors. The warning came when Scottish doctors recently debated and passed a motion at their annual conference which claimed that GPASS (the General Practice Administration System), a system for managing general practice, is "continuing to fail […]
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