Shortlisted LSPs Notified
A further key stage in the national procurement for Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) was reached on Friday when firms that had made the shortlist to become Local Service Providers (LSPs) were notified by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS. Ninety-nine firms submitted outline applications to become LSPs by March with the […]
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Tablet PC Vs PDA – The Debate Continues (Part 3)
Over the past month E-Health Insider readers have debated the relative merits of PDAs and Tablet PCs in healthcare. This week we publish two further perspectives, in a debate that appears more timely than ever with the announcement of the merger between iSoft and Torex. Which device will the new merged health IT giant be […]
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ISoft and Torex Announce Merger Plans
iSoft and Torex, two of the UK’s leading health IT firms announced this week that they intended to merge to create the UK’s largest provider of healthcare information systems able to play a leading role in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS and be a leading player internationally. The two companies said […]
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SNOMED ‘Highly Unlikely’ to Generate Revenue for NHS
Expected revenues from the NHS’ collaboration on SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) have not been realised and the financial formula used to calculate them is unlikely to generate any revenues for the service in the future, according to a strategy document commissioned by the NHS Information Authority and seen by E-Health Insider. This is despite the […]
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Healthcare Interoperability Forum in ‘Abeyance’
The Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF), an industry group of leading system suppliers focused on developing common standards, has gone into ‘abeyance’ and has no further plans to meet. The decision to cease further work was taken at meeting of the group two weeks ago after it became apparent that much of the work planned […]
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ETP Pilots Ended for 5,000 Patients
The two remaining operational pilots for electronic transfer of prescriptions ETP are to be ended by the Department of Health (DoH), without a clear plan of how ETP will be taken forward. More than 5,000 patients who had been benefiting from the service will now have to switch back to physically collecting their prescriptions. ETP […]
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IT Impact Likely To Be Greater Than Foundation Status?
The NHS IT strategy is likely to have a greater effect on the service over the next five years than foundation status or payment by results, according to a MORI poll of 102 trust chief executives in England. The poll, published at the start of the NHS Confederation conference in Glasgow this week, reveals that […]
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Granger: Rip and Replace Fears Unfounded
Fears of a wholesale rip and replace strategy to update NHS IT are unfounded and existing ‘legacy’ systems will continue to be vital, NHS IT boss Richard Granger told the British Computer Society’s Primary Health Care Special Interest Group (PHCSIG) conference this week. In a well received speech the Director General of NHS IT told […]
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GPC Chair Pledges Practices Will Retain Choice
Dr John Chisolm, chairman of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) General Practitioners Committee (GPC) has pledged to fight to defend practices’ right to choose which practice systems they use. With just days to go before the closure of the ballot on the new UK-wide GP contract this Friday Dr Chisholm told delegates at the British […]
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“NHS Has Not Yet Dreamed of the Things IT Can Do” – Confed Chief
The NHS Confederation annual conference opens in Glasgow next week so E-Health Insider fixed an interview with its chief executive, Dr Gill Morgan, to find out what the nation’s trusts and health authorities think about recent IT developments. We found her upbeat about the possibilities opened up by IT investment, but concerned about the NHS’s […]
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