Legionnaires’ in Cumbria: NHS Strategic Tracing System Helps Ease Public Fears
The latest version of the NHS Strategic Tracing System (NSTS) has played a key role in getting the results of Legionnaires’ Disease tests out to GPs and patients during the recent outbreak in Cumbria. Staff at Morecambe Bay Hospital NHS Trust, who have been delivering and co-ordinating medical care during the outbreak were able to […]
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HCN Wins Extension on Australian Contract
Health Communication Network (HCN), an Australian medical IT and health software provider, has announced the renewal of an $8 million deal that will enable New South Wales (NSW) Health to provide doctors, nurses and allied health professionals with online health information through its Clinical Information Access Program (CIAP) health information database. NSW Health originally negotiated […]
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Northern Ireland Issues Integrated ICT Strategy
The Northern Ireland Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety has issued a consultation document on developing integrated IT systems that sets out how it plans to use information and communications technology (ICT) to provide joined-up health and social care. The proposals are aimed at introducing fully ICT-enabled health and social care. Key elements […]
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Oxford Clinical Intranet Links Local NHS
The potential of networked local NHS communities is being demonstrated in Oxfordshire by the Oxford Clinical Intranet, which uses easy-to-use Internet technology to make test results electronically available to GPs. Where in the past getting test results depended on doctors making time-consuming phone calls or awaiting paper results by mail, the new system — developed […]
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Barcodes Could Prevent Future IVF Mistakes
An Israeli biotechnology firm says that its bar code tracking system could help IVF clinics electronically track all the components involved in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment and avoid future mix-ups. The claim comes after it was disclosed last week that a mix-up at British IVF clinic resulted in a white woman unexpectedly giving birth to […]
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BMA IT Lead Sceptical of NHS Strategy
With the blue touch paper for a big new push on NHS IT apparently about to be lit, E-Health Insider spoke to Dr Grant Kelly, a general practitioner and head of the BMA’s IT committee, about how he views the new draft IT strategy. The British Medical Association’s IT lead questions whether the new NHS […]
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Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh Implements Case Notes
CSW Health , a provider of XML-based health information systems, has announced that it has successfully implemented its Case Notes e-records system at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust. The Case Notes system went live in Acute Medicine department of the trust in June, only 6 weeks after installation, and forms an important step in […]
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Home Office to Consult on Smart ID Cards
The Home Office is to publish proposals to introduce identity cards in the UK, based on smart card technology, with Home Secretary David Blunkett expected to announce a six month public consultation on the proposals. Introducing national ID cards was floated by the Home Office in the aftermath of September 11 as a potential guard […]
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UK E-Health Association Conference
Highlights from the UK e-Health Association Conference, Cardiff, June 11-13 E-Health Media listened in on some of the presentations at the UK e-Health Association’s well-attended conference last week. Building Clinical Value Through Data Linkage An example of building real value for diabetes patients and clinicians through data linkage came from Dr John Parkinson, client services […]
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South Staffs Launches Community-wide Electronic Records
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with an enterprise-wide, patient information system, PiMS, which provides staff with real time patient information. Supplied by iSOFT the system provides the trusts 3,500 clinicians with access to the computerised details and clinical information of all patients within the 0.5 million local population. The PiMS patient record […]
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