That was the year that was…
Map of Medicine publishes VTE pathway
The Map of Medicine has published a new pathways for the prevention of Venous Thromoembolism (VTE) in hospital patients, which is responsible for approximately 25,000 deaths in the UK each year. The new pathway should help support the Department of Health’s national policy that all patients admitted to hospital in England should receive a risk […]
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Bath extends deal with IBM for legacy system
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust has signed a one-year, £520,000 deal with IBM to extend support for its hospital information system. The extension will take the contract with IBM to manage the TDS patient administration system into its seventeenth year. The trust was meant to have received a replacement Cerner Millennium system as part […]
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Leicester uses FrontRange for SAM
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has bought 8,000 FrontRange SAM Suite licences to improve control of its IT inventory. Technical security specialist David Rose it became interested in software asset management after it learned about NHS Connecting for Health’s National Infrastructure Maturity Model (NIMM) and how it affected access to licences in Microsoft’s Enterprise Agreement […]
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Nottingham PCT rolls out IP communications
Nottingham Primary Care trust has rolled out a modern communications network to cover the city centre, county and surrounding districts. The PCT issued a tender for a technology refresh in January 2007, indicating that it wanted to develop its infrastructure to meet emerging business needs and take advantage of new technologies. The ability to network […]
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Alarm raised over Integrated Children’s System
The government’s IT solution for children’s services could put at risk the children it is designed to help, according to researchers. A study to be published early next year in the British Journal for Social Work claims the Integrated Children’s System has the potential to undermine good social work practice. Academics from the universities of […]
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SCR integrated into Adastra
Out-of-hours provider Adastra has delivered an integrated solution for the Summary Care Record that will make access to the SCR much quicker and easier for clinicians, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. The integrated solution means out-of-hours clinicians will be able to instantly access the SCR from within Adastra, subject to confidentiality safeguards. The system […]
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Watchdog calls for safety culture
The Healthcare Commission has urged the NHS to generate better comparative information on safe care and outcomes and to set up a national database of serious untoward incidents. In its final report on the State of Healthcare in England and Wales, the Commission says there is much about the health service that is positive and […]
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma on the Operating Framework and the future of the National Programme.
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Shake up in Informatics Planning
Local health communities have been instructed to move towards “information-led rather than service-led planning” and to create new structures to plan and deliver the IT needed to do it. Informatics Planning 2009-10, a document published alongside the Operating Framework for the NHS in England 2009-10, further shifts attention from the National Programme for IT in […]
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