ICRS Targets “Won’t Be Reached”
A pessimistic view of the chances of hitting targets for getting the Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) up and running emerged with week from an audience poll at the Clinical Information Systems and Electronic Records conference in London. Organisers conceded that the poll returns were a small sample of opinion, but the response was unequivocal: […]
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NPfIT Contract Negotiations Get Tough
The long-term future of a key pillar of the Government’s modernisation strategy for the NHS depends on what increasingly resembles a game of chicken, now being played out between the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and the suppliers left in the contract negotiations for the procurement competitions. Participants in this high-stakes game of poker describe […]
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NN4B Supports New Hearing Test for Babies
The national rollout of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) was launched this week with due praise for its technology devised by the NHS Information Authority, Syntegra and Hays CSG. The NHSIA’s Numbers for Babies (NN4B) service supports the hearing screen for newborns which is generating major improvements in services for babies born with hearing […]
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Electronic Prescription Transfers Added to Data Spine
Digital imaging and electronic transfer of prescriptions are the two major new applications added to the new expanded Output Based Specification (OBS2) for Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) and the national data spine. The weighty new documents describe a considerably thicker national ‘data spine’, with additional features and clinical functionality delivered at an early stage. […]
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Can Clinical Trials Be Done on the Internet?
The Internet offers opportunities for studying some treatments quickly and effectively, according to a feasibility trial published in the British Medical Journal. There appear to be limits to the usefulness of the method explored, however. The study, conducted by rheumatology staff at the at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, suggested that the Internet-based approach […]
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Lockheed Martin Withdraws From National Programme
US technology giant, Lockheed Martin, has withdrawn from the procurement competitions being run by the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) the company confirmed to E-Health Insider today (Friday, 29 August). A Lockheed Martin spokesperson stated: “I can confirm that we have withdrawn from the National Programme for IT.” He declined to answer any questions […]
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Health Records Infrastructure Programme Ended
The NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) has confirmed to E-Health Insider that it has decided to suspend its Health Record Infrastructure (HRI) programme and halt development of live trials. The decision to suspend work on the four HRI pilots before they go live was made by the NHS Information Authority earlier last week as a direct […]
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Placing XML at the Heart of Hospital Trust’s IM&T Strategy
Following E-Health Insider s XML in health feature two week s ago, Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, sets out how his trust has used XML to develop extremely low cost ‘best of breed’ solutions to integrate systems and improve clinical care. Information Technology at Wrightington, Wigan & […]
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DTI Funds Diabetes E-Health Project
Docobo (UK) Ltd has been awarded a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) SMART research and development grant for an e-health project based on home-based remote management of the outpatient care for hypertensive diabetics. The DTI SMART award is intended to help develop technology to significantly improve the long term outcome of hypertensive diabetics and […]
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Better Information Needed for Sexual Health Services
Services struggling to cope with Britain’s deteriorating sexual health could be helped by a new approach to performance management underpinned by modern IT, according to a paper submitted to the Commons Health Select Committee. In June, the committee published a report that highlighted spiralling rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and long waits for appointments […]
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