Portsmouth deploys electronic document management
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has fully deployed an electronic document management system, using barcodes to store information on the location of paper records that have to be kept for legal reasons. The trust deployed the EDM system in May this year, after two years of piloting. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo in London earlier […]
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Humber first mental health trust to use SystmOne
Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has become the first trust in the country to deploy the SystmOne Mental Health system, delivered by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as part of the NHS National Programme for IT. Using SystmOne, ninety care practitioners working at the in-patient unit at the Townend Court learning disabilities […]
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NAO says care records service delayed until 2015
Trafford gets Cameron’s vote
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust tell EHI how their BT e-Health Insider award caught David Cameron’s eye.
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New GP leads aim to connect
Dr Peter Short, one of two new GP clinical leads just appointed by Connecting for Health, is clear about how he will measure his success in the job.
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2008: the year telecare grows up?
A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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Dear NPfIT…
Respondents to the recent Medix survey added comments to their answers. Linda Davidson sifted their views.
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Ehealth one of UK’s major future technologies
The government’s Council for Science and Technology (CST) has named e-health as one of the most promising technologies for the UK to focus on over the next five years, but says concerns over security and deployment timescales must be overcome. The CST says that the potential to deliver and enhance health services through the internet […]
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Health secretary’s website wins access award
Health secretary Alan Johnson’s website won the top prize for accessibility in the British Computer Society (BCS) MP Website Awards. Johnson, who is also Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle, won the award for his personal website www.alanjohnson.org, used to communicate news to his constituents. The website is run for the health secretary by […]
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Government says no plans to devolve CfH power
The government has rejected calls to hand over greater contractual power to trusts and strategic health authorities.
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