NHS Counter Fraud Services Partner With SAS
Health Minister Lord Hunt has announced a partnership between the NHS Counter Fraud Service (NHS CFS) and business intelligence software company SAS in a move designed to provide a much greater capacity to target fraud in the NHS. The value, duration and terms of the partnership deal between NHS CFS and SAS were not disclosed […]
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Optimum HealthWare Wins North Cheshire Contract
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Optimum HealthWare for its MultiVue patient indexing tool to provide a single view of patients’ details across multiple systems and sites. The trust, formed from a merger of Halton and Warrington Hospitals, has patient administration, clinical and departmental legacy systems, each with their own patient […]
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OJEC Issued for National IT Programme Procurement
The clock has started ticking officially for companies aspiring to take a slice of the new NHS IT business with the publication of an OJEC contract notice and supporting documents designed to set the £2.3 billion procurement process in train. The notice leaves suppliers 37 days to express their interest in becoming bidders for the […]
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Broadband Upgrade for NHSnet Signed
The NHS has signed a contract with BT and C&W to provide broadband upgrades to NHSnet, the NHS’s private data network. The total value of the contract between BT and the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) for the upgraded network is £168m. Funded by the NHSIA, the upgrades will give every GP practice a 256Kbs fixed […]
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AAFP Explores Open-Source EHR
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is considering developing and selling low-cost "open-source" electronic medical records (EMR) software to provide its members with access to low-cost electronic record systems. According to a report in American Medical News, published by the American Medical Association, the AAFP will submit a business plan to its board on […]
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Scottish Ambulance Plans to Network Vehicles
Scottish Ambulance plans to put networked computers in all of its emergency vehicles to provide crews with better information en route to emergency incidents in an investment project worth up to £6m. The multimillion project, which would cover the whole of Scotland, is designed to cut response times, improve communications with hospital casualty departments and […]
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Blackberd Announces Long-list of Suppliers
Blackberd, the collaborative procurement of electronic record systems by 12 trusts in Birmingham and the Black Country has announced the long-list of seven Prime Service Providers (PSPs) for the £250m project. The Blackberd collaboration is seen as a key project to demonstrate how many local NHS organisations can collaborate on core IT developments central to […]
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The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You (part 2)
Last week, E-Health Insider published a round-up of comments from readers on the apparent new hard line on suppliers being adopted by NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger –The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You. Since then your emails have continued to roll in. One reader emailed to ask about our readership: "Has anyone […]
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The 12 Days of Christmas IT
Thanks to everyone who entered our Christmas wish list competition. Phil Graham, head of information management and technology at Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust, is a worthy winner with his variation on the 12 Days of Christmas that is bound to strike a chord with many readers. His prize is a bottle of […]
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Multilex Announces Enhanced Sensitivity Checking
First DataBank Europe , the provider of point-of-care databases has launched Enhanced Sensitivity Checking as a new feature of its Multilex Drug Data File Multilex DDF). The new feature offers a more sophisticated way to highlight potential drug – patient sensitivity safety issues to clinicians, a key requirement in reducing medication errors. Previously, within electronic […]
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