EHI group focuses on careers and jobs
A new group focused on healthcare IT jobs and careers is now live on the business networking site, LinkedIn. The eHealth Insider Jobs group will highlight useful information and promote discussion about career-related issues. Membership is free, although anybody wanting to join will have to register with LinkedIn if they are not already members of […]
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NHS Wirral drops Lorenzo
NHS Wirral has dropped its planned implementation of Lorenzo Release 1.9 and is carrying out an option appraisal for an alternative system, E-Health Insider has learned.
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Cambridge starts hunt for a new EPR
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will go outside of the National Programme for IT in the NHS when procuring for an electronic patient record early next year.
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Summary Care Record given go-ahead
The Summary Care Record is to go ahead, but its content will be limited to core information and an opt-out form will be included in patient information packs.
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Pennine on brink of dropping Lorenzo
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust may be on the brink of abandoning its Lorenzo implementation following continuing concerns and difficulties around implementing the system, E-Health Insider has learned.
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English NHS urged to adopt Welsh EPS
A pharmacy body is calling for NHS Connecting for Health to adopt the Welsh model for electronic transfer of prescriptions, in place of Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service.
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Patient Opinion now Looking Local
Patient Opinion has formed a partnership with Looking Local to allow people to use its feedback service even if they do not have internet access. Traditionally, Patient Opinion has used its website to allow users to provide feedback on local health services and then routed their stories to people within the NHS who can make […]
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Putting on the glitz
The winners of this year’s EHI Awards were “thrilled” and “amazed” – when they weren’t totally overcome. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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EHI Awards 2010: the winners
A system that lets paramedics hand over patient details to A&E staff electronically has scooped the top prize in the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT.
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Trusts told to plan for end of McAfee
Trusts are being told that the Enterprise Agreement signed with McAfee after the HMRC debacle is unlikely to be renewed.
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