EDS given £9m compensation for NHSmail contract
EDS is to recieve £9m in compensation from the Department of Health for the cancellation of its 10-year contract to supply NHSmail, originally awarded in September 2002. The news comes a month after Cable & Wireless was awarded a nine-year replacement contract worth £29.3m for supplying NHSmail’s existing 65,000 users with email and related services, rising […]
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NHS University cancels ‘virtual campus’ procurement
The NHS University has cancelled the procurement for its ‘virtual campus’, the project that was meant to be the centerpiece of the health service’s corporate university e-learning services. NHSU had planned to award the contract for the ‘virtual campus’ this summer. The platform was intended to provide NHS staff with 24-hour access to online knowledge […]
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First QMAS system fully approved in NPfIT pilot
The National Programme for IT have rubber-stamped the first clinical software system for use with the new Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) being piloted this summer. HealthyGP, from Healthy Software, achieved official NPfIT certification for supplying GMS Contract Submissions prior to the formal introduction of the system in April 2005. EMIS is also piloting […]
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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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