Call for new urgent care phone number
The Ambulance Service Network (ASN) has called for a new national telephone number for urgent non-life threatening calls, which would use real-time data to ensure patients needs are accurately recorded and paramedics have all the information, in its vision for emergency and acute care. Representative of all ambulance trusts in the UK as part of […]
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Evidence gap on telehealth needs to be filled
More work is needed to fill the evidence gap on telehealth if it is to enter the mainstream, according to a Department of Health agency. The Care Services Improvement Partnership (CSIP) has issued a review of the academic literature on the use of telehealth in the management of patients with long term conditions (LTCs). The […]
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EMIS deal for London on cards
Primary care system supplier EMIS looks likely to be included as part of the local service provider solution for London. GP practices in London will have the option of INPS’s Vision 4 or EMIS, subject to the conclusion of contract negotiations. Kevin Jarrold, director of the London Programme for IT (LPfIT) and chief information officer […]
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Your data or your life?
Bill McAvoy of Quicksilva argues that developing an information integration strategies provides the foundation for joined up public services.
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Liquidlogic deploys e-SAP in Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough Council has become the latest local authority to deploy Single Assessment Process software from Liquidlogic in a bid to deliver electronic data sharing and remote working between the council’s social care department and Middlesbrough Primary Care Trust. The single assessment process (SAP) for older people was introduced in the National Service Framework for Older […]
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Derbyshire GPs say information poor on system choice
GPs in Derbyshire whose practices have switched to the GP clinical system TPP offered by their local service provider (LSP) have claimed they were not well informed about available choices for system change. In a survey carried out by Derbyshire Local Medical Committee information about system choice scored worst out of the ten areas covered […]
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Patient records excluded from new data sharing bill
New legislation to allow data sharing between the public and private sectors were unveiled by the government yesterday, but NHS patient records are excluded from the laws. The Serious Crime Bill will let anti-fraud agencies access personal information including pay, tax, pension and benefit records. It will exclude some sensitive personal data, including all NHS patient […]
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Proposals for wider data sharing to be unveiled
The government is to make it easier for different department systems to share information about individuals currently held on separate databases. The move is expected to be presented as a pragmatic way to improve the delivery of public services and follows a government policy review of public services, headed by Work and Pensions secretary John […]
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Report must ‘signal the end of the line for GPASS’
A long-awaited independent report on GPASS ‘must signal the end of the line’ for Scotland’s most commonly used GP system, BMA Scotland’s IT representative said today. After seeing a draft version of the pending Deloitte report on ‘General Practice Information Technology Options’, Dr Stuart Scott, deputy chairman and IT lead for the BMA’s Scottish General […]
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Apollo patient data mining software may breach DPA
A primary care IM&T adviser has recommended that GP practices do not use Department of Health supplied software to extract data for a patient survey because of concerns over patient confidentiality. Dr Simon Barton, GP IM&T adviser for Cornwall, wrote to all practices after the DH issued instructions to practices on how to use software […]
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