Davis: privatising records ‘dangerous’
Former Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis has slammed his own party’s reported plans to hand health records to commercial IT companies as “naïve” and “dangerous.” Writing in The Times yesterday, the MP for Haltemprice and Howden said the first time he read about the policy his “heart sank.” “The policy described was so naïve, […]
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Swine Flu tracking on Qsurveillance
Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS is encouraging its GPs practices to sign up to its primary care tracking database QSurveillance to help provide national and local information on swine flu. EMIS said the QSurveillance database is already providing information on 23m patients from 3500 GP practices and that the level of detail provided in reports […]
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Doctors.net.uk partners with Dendrite
Doctors.net.uk has signed a deal with pharmaceutical customer relationship management specialist Cegedim Dendrite, to integrate its OneKey data system into the clinician professional network.
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CardioPod launched at NHS Camden
The CardioPod installed in a pharmacy Assistive technology company Telehealth Solutions has launched a touch-screen CardioPod which it says will help GP practices and pharmacists deliver the NHS Health Check programme. The CardioPod joins other ‘pods’ already launched by the company to deliver services such as automated check-in at GP surgeries or patient self-monitoring at […]
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QResearch pioneer honoured
A GP who set up the QResearch database, using anonymised data from around 10m patients registered at EMIS practices, has been honoured for her work. Professor Julia Hippisley-Cox, professor of clinical epidemiology and general practice at Nottingham University, had been awarded the John Fry Silver Medal by the Royal College of GPs. The medal commemorates […]
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Professionals start using ContactPoint
Up to 800 health, education and social care professionals are to start using the national children’s database ContactPoint from today, the government has announced. The Department for Children, Schools and Families said selected professionals based in 17 local authorities in North West England, together with staff working for the charities Barnardo’s and KIDS, will be […]
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Task force demands ICS overhaul
The government is to change its rules on IT systems for children’s services after accepting that current systems fail to adequately support social workers. The Department for Children, Schools and Families is to allow local authorities and suppliers to remove ‘forms’ and ‘exemplars’ in local IT systems supporting the Integrated Children’s System. Social workers have […]
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IT should make me more money
In his latest column GP Dr Neil Paul argues that general practice needs some more business-based IT solutions.
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Hampshire rejects SCR for HHR
The largest primary care trust in England has decided not to implement the Summary Care Record in the next 12 months and to expand its own shared care record system instead.
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Politicians question major IT projects
Opposition politicians are lining up to promise to scrap major IT projects as the full scale of the coming public spending squeeze becomes apparent. But home secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated that the government plans to press ahead with plans to store communications data and make it available to the emergency services, health and other […]
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