Graphnet complete Gwent out-of-hours pilot
Graphnet has completed deployment of a new Out of Hours system that will extract demographic patient records from the majority of 96 GP practices in Gwent, South Wales. Over 70 of the 96 GP practices in Gwent have started sharing information with the out-of-hours (OOH) service, making nearly 400,000 records available. Informing Healthcare say this […]
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Framework sets out plan for joined up IT
The government has set out a radical plan for joining up health and social care IT systems and sharing information about individuals and communities across services. The Commissioning Framework for Health and Wellbeing, now out for consultation from the Department of Health and the Department for Communities and Local Government, says councils, PCTs and practice […]
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Survey reveals almost all councils using telecare
A new database from the Commission for Social Care Inspection rating adult social care in all 150 local authorities in England has shown that all but six councils are now investing in telecare. CSCI inspected all 150 local authorities and released performance assessments on adult social care departments, including the use of telecare technology. The […]
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Councils lag behind on telecare plans
A minority of councils in England are starting to put plans in place for telecare services but most have made few or no preparations, according to survey. The survey results are based on a questionnaire about telecare circulated by independent consultancy, the Telecare Alliance, to the 150 councils in England with responsibility for social services. […]
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New analysis tool helps pinpoint deprivation
Huddersfield’s primary care trusts and global information solutions specialists, Experian, this week claimed a health informatics ‘first’ with the publication of a new type of analysis that helps pinpoint deprivation and its effects on health more closely. They have analysed health service data from primary and secondary care sources according to deprivation and affluence at postcode level […]
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Life outside NPfIT: Wales
In the first part of a series, E-Health Insider looks at the developments in healthcare IT in Wales, under the Informing Healthcare programme.
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Hanon Partners to Launch Virtual Child Protection
Hanon Solutions Ltd, the Scottish data integration specialist, has announced a new partnership to offer local authorities a solution to the Department of Health’s Identification, Referral & Tracking (IRT) initiative. The off-the-shelf package is designed to help councils ensure that information relating to children at risk is securely shared between relevant organisations. The need to […]
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