Connelly: NHS must look beyond NPfIT
The Department of Health’s director general for informatics says that it is time to think beyond the national programme, or risk being held prisoner by it.
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Call for clarity on PACS contracts
Radiologists and PACS managers have called for greater clarity about the future of local service provider PACS contracts, which come to an end in January 2013 in most of England.
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Standard debate
The need for standards to underpin interoperability was one of the big themes of EHI Live 2010. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Connelly: NHS IT to ‘evolve’
The Department of Health will take a “pragmatic approach” to the procurement of IT systems big and small, Christine Connelly told the final session at eHealth Insider Live 2010.
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N3 ‘stifling innovation’
The N3 network is stifling innovation, preventing sharing of information and addressing fundamentally the wrong security question, a question time session at eHealth Insider Live 2010 agreed.
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First Oasis Sandwell sale to NHS trust
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust has become the first to sign a contract for an electronic patient record system jointly developed by the Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and Oasis Medical Solutions.
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WSD sites enrol just one patient in ten
A senior adviser on telehealth has told eHealth Insider Live 2010 that the whole system demonstrator sites have been able to recruit fewer than one in ten people eligible for support.
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iSoft promises new UK products
ISoft has pledged to invest in the development of new products for NHS customers, separate to its Lorenzo development commitments.
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Sweden to go-live with online records
Sweden will provide patients with online access to their electronic medical records before the end of the year, the deputy director of the healthcare division of Sweden’s Ministry of Health and Social Affairs has confirmed.
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Dictate IT offers free digital dictation
Dictate IT is offering to foot the bill for providing digital dictation technology at any NHS trust, in what it describes as a “no strings challenge.”
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