Shortlist shows cream of UK e-health innovation
With just under two weeks to go before the presentation of the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 the details of shortlisted entrants are now available and listed below. Of course the category winners will not be known until the big night on 21 April when GP and broadcaster, Dr Phil Hammond, will compere the awards ceremony […]
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GP-to-GP transfer pilot project begins
The National Programme for IT has begun pilots of GP-to-GP record transfer between practices running EMIS and InPractice Systems, using dummy records, in three areas of the country. GP-to-GP record transfer, when fully operational, will for the first time enable patient records to be seamlessly electronically transferred from one practice to another when a patient […]
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Systems choice was a ‘geographical absurdity’
Professor Mike Pringle, one of the clinical leads for the national programme for IT, has described the previous arrangements on GP choice of system as a "geographical absurdity" that had become a barrier to success. Professor Pringle said that last month’s decision to allow GPs to choose from a wider range of accredited systems was […]
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Practices to get choice of any LSP primary care system
In a major change of direction all GP practices in England are to get a choice between all the accredited practice systems offered by any of the four local service providers within the NHS National Programme for IT. In a double announcement the Department of Health will today confirm – as first reported by EHI […]
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Shortlist announced for E-Health Innovation Awards
After an intense round of presentations and judging, the shortlist for the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 has been agreed. Winners have been chosen among the finalists listed below, but their names will not be revealed until the Awards ceremony and dinner on 21 April 2005. Compered by GP, writer and broadcaster, Dr Phil Hammond, the […]
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EMIS looks set to sign for North West
E-Health Insider has learned that EMIS appears set to sign an agreement to become the alternative GP systems provider for the North West and West Midlands cluster of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The deal between EMIS with the local service provider (LSP) CSC Alliance (CSCA) is understood to be on the point of […]
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Cabinet Office denies Watmore to take helm at NPfIT
The Cabinet Office and National Programme for IT have moved swiftly today to deny suggestions that Ian Watmore, the Government’s first Chief Information Officer, is poised to take the helm at the NHS IT modernisation project. The prediction that Watmore was about to take a greater hand in steering the NPfIT was made in this […]
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GPs get a voice
New efforts are to be made by the NPfIT to engage GPs. E-Health Insider Primary Care talks to Dr Gillian Braunold, joint GP clinical lead for the programme.
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Carry a clinical textbook in your Palm
EMIS has developed Palm Mentor, a memory card full of clinical information to fit into GPs’ Palm handheld devices, in order to support decision-making while on the move. The card contains all the Oxford Handbooks of Clinical Medicine and Specialties, and also GP-authored EMIS Medical Immediate Reference Articles, and is an extension of EMIS’s Web […]
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Fingers point the way forward for patient ID
A group of practices that won an IT innovations award have begun to install a fingerprint identification system that allows patients access to their own records. The Staffa Health Centre, Tibshelf, Derbyshire, became the first of the award-winning practices to install the Patient Electronic Records Systems (PAERS) last week. The system uses touch screen kiosk […]
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