NHSmail migration completed
NHS Connecting for Health has announced the successful migration of NHSmail to Microsoft Exchange 2007. The end of the migration was announced at Healthcare Computing, where Martin Bellamy, director of programme and system delivery for CfH, said it had been “by far the largest transition of its type in the world.” Cable and Wireless, which […]
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CfH aims for 4 million HealthSpace users by 2014
NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by 2014. The ambitious target is understood to form part of the business case for HealthSpace, for which Treasury funding is being sought. Development plans for the patient portal are still awaiting Treasury approval. HealthSpace has […]
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Southend secures email with Proofpoint
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out a secure email solution from Proofpoint across its 2,500 PCs. The move follows a review of IT in May 2008, which showed the trust needed to improve its email security to meet Department of Health guidelines introduced as a result of data leaks in the NHS. […]
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IT vital to pharmacy progress
Use of the NHS Care Records Service by community pharmacists will be an essential part of the reform agenda for pharmacy services, health minister Phil Hope has said. The minister told the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee’s annual dinner that community pharmacy and the NHS were in a great position to move forward on a number […]
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Information barrier to PBC
Poor quality data and financial information remains a barrier to the successful implementation of practice-based commissioning, according to the National association of Primary Care. The NAPC, whose membership covers GP practices and PCTs, is calling for timely financial and clinical data to be made available to practices. It claims the future of practice-based commissioning is […]
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Cutting the ties to one GP system
GP Dr Neil Paul wonders if IT advances mean primary care should become less dependent on one operating system and on client side software.
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EMIS offers online consultation service
GP system supplier EMIS is to begin the roll-out of an online consultation service it has developed with a GP practice in Cheshire. The Marple Cottage Surgery in Stockport has been working with EMIS to design the internet-based consultation service, which is based on a template questionnaire that patients are asked to complete. Now EMIS […]
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OLPC has potential for health
Computers provided to children in developing countries as part of the One Laptop One Child initiative could also be used to deliver health education and healthcare, according to a new report. Researchers from the National Library of Medicine in the US looked at how the laptops could be used in medical settings and concluded that […]
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