Mobile e-Procurement Shows the Way on NHS IT
Staff at Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust now send for supplies from handheld computers which also enable them to keep track of orders and deliveries and manage stock. The new system, called WANDER, which has been designed and developed by KPMG Consulting with Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, was launched officially this week by health minister, Lord […]
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Tight Timetable Set For NHS Technology Procurement
A newly published summary of the planned procurement strategy for delivering the national NHS IT programme ‘Delivering 21st Century IT Support’ makes clear that the strategy will depend on contracting out key components of the programme to consortia of suppliers led by heavyweight Prime Service Providers (PSPs) at both the national and regional levels. What […]
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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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DH Preparing £5 Billion IT Strategy
This week E-Health Insider provides an advance preview of the yet to be released, yet to be approved, draft implementation strategy, "Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS". Two months ago Sir John Pattison announced at Harrogate that a new national strategy for NHS IT, based on common standards, new investment and a new […]
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ISOFT Boss Predicts Further Industry Consolidation
One of the key features of the new emerging national strategy on NHS IT will be the selection of preferred suppliers for key systems. Ken Jacobson, European CEO of iSOFT , one of the largest UK-based health IT firms, gave E-Health Insider his perspective on how the supplier market can help the NHS achieve its […]
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Instant Medical History Comes to Europe
One of the biggest obstacles to electronic records is getting doctors to enter patient details onto systems electronically. A US company, Primetime Medical Software, believes it has the answer – get patients to enter their own medical history. Instant Medical History (IMH) is based on getting patients to complete a series of simple, yet highly […]
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PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans
Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold while new national plans for IM&T strategy are drawn up. A new wave of Primary Care Trusts and strategic health authorities was created on 1 April, when health authorities were abolished replaced by 302 Primary […]
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GPs Believe EPRs Will Improve Patient Care
A major new survey of the attitudes Yorkshire GPs to electronic patient records in primary and community care has revealed that 60% of them believe that the introduction of electronic records will improve patient care. However, almost half (48%) of them say they either will not, or don’t know, whether they will be able to […]
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Mobile Mental Health EPR a European First
Mental Health services are rarely seen as being on the glamorous side of information technology in healthcare but a groundbreaking Dutch project has shown the benefits of providing mental health professionals with the very latest in mobile technology. Backed by the specialist Robert Fleury hospital in The Hague, a project to develop mobile electronic patient […]
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Review Underway to Get EPR ‘Back on Track’
Jon Hoeksma A major review of Electronic Patient Records (EPR) is underway by the Department of Health to get the programme back on track and the Information Policy Unit (IPU) has at last acknowledged the early EPR targets will not be met. E-Health Insider has learned that a review of the EPR programme is underway […]
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