NHSIA Launches B2B Business Card Website
The NHS Information Authority’s Industry Liaison team has launched a new website designed to enable suppliers and would be suppliers of ICT to the NHS to submit electronic business cards. Called the ‘B2B Business Card System’ the site allows suppliers to get basic information about their organisation added, that is then searchable under a series […]
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Mid-Cheshire Selects IMS Maxims
IMS Maxims plc has announced it has signed a contract for its care pathways and results reporting system to Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The initial five year contract will link five core specialties to the trust’s iSoft-supplied Patient Administration System (PAS) and form the basis for level 3 EPR throughout the Trust. The five-year contract […]
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Advice Paves the Way for National Clinical Audit
Advice is published this week on the National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP) which will eventually yield comparative data on the performance of clinical services and on individual practitioners. The programme forms part of the government’s response to the Kennedy Report on child heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1984 and 95. Kennedy […]
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Newchurch Launches PCT IT Blueprint
Newchurch Ltd has launched what it describes as a technology blueprint to enable Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement integrated Primary and Community Care Electronic Patient Records (EPR). The health IT systems and consultancy firm says that the new blueprint will enable PCTs to build modular, integrated EPR systems in line with latest national guidance that […]
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Manitex and B-Plan Join Forces in Irish Health
Health IT suppliers, Manitex and B-Plan information Systems have announced a partnership for the Irish health market. Both companies have existing customers in Ireland including the Mater Hospital, the Eastern Regional Health Authority, the Royal Hospitals Trust (Belfast) and the Virus Reference Laboratory at University College, Dublin. Steve Gillman, managing director of Manitex said, “The […]
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Royal Surrey Selects Oasis for Physio
Royal Surrey Hospitals has awarded Elan Technologies a contract to develop a dedicated information module for the physiotherapy department to integrate it into the hospital electronic patient record system. The hospital has been using an EPR system supplied by Oasis since 1996. Terms of the deal for the new module were not disclosed. The physiotherapy […]
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MyDocOnline Adds Evidence-Based Guidelines
MyDocOnline a US e-health subsidiary of Pharma firm Aventis; is to incorporate an evidence-based care management application EBMpact, into its suite of tools for online communication between patients and their physicians. EBMpact’s guidelines are designed to minimise costly medical practice variation and increase patient compliance, to reduce unnecessary costs and maximise patient health outcomes. The […]
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Lancashire Selects Per-Se for Electronic Records
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a deal with Per-Se Technologies Inc. to implement its Patient clinical information system. The electronic record system, which will first be implemented by the Lancashire trust, is expected to eventually form the basis for a regional integrated electronic record. The £8.3m contract represents Per-Se’s first sales of its […]
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Patient Letters: Do We Really Need More Research?
Two leading doctors have challenged the need for further research and pilots on the NHS Plan’s pledge to give patients copies of letters about and summaries of their treatment and care. Professor Sir Cyril Chantler, senior associate at the King’s Fund and Mr James Johnson, chairman of the British Medical Association’s joint consultants’ committee, point […]
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by other partners in the local health economy. Called the Joint Clinical Information System project, the project is being run by three project partners – Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the […]
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