Granger: bricks of the digital NHS coming together
The pace of delivery of new IT systems to the hospital sector has been "disappointing", says NHS IT director general Richard Granger NHS IT director but he says the bricks that will build a digital NHS are slowly coming together. In an interview given to E-Health Insider in the run-up to the publication of the NAO report […]
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Requirement needed for joint planning
Hopes that forthcoming government guidance will require the NHS to plan jointly with local government for care outside hospital have been voiced by the social care representative on Connecting for Health’s Board. “There will be a number of instances where, unless that is required, it will not happen,” David Johnstone told the British Computer Society […]
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Digital hospital
EHI looks at how a futuristic hospital in Norway can show what benefits an integrated approach to communications can bring to patient care.
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Newcastle goes out to tender for EPR
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to break ranks with the NHS Connecting for Health IT programme and go out to tender for a new clinical information system. The large acute trust has this month placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for a new […]
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First for Carecast
UCLH is the first in the capital to have IDX’s CareCast up and running. E-Health Insider finds out how the newly-built hospital is taking to the system.
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UCLH plays smart with cards
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has become one of the first big hospital trusts in England to begin using smart cards in conjunction with an electronic patient records system. UCLH is using the cards to provide staff with quick, secure and easy access to its new electronic patient record system – Carecast […]
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Cash injection
After GE’s purchase of IDX, are more medical systems companies eyeing up the healthcare IT market? Industry analyst James MacPherson investigates.
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IMS Maxims helps cut Irish patient waiting
IMS Maxims has announced that it has successfully installed a new Patient Management System on behalf of the Irish National Treatment Purchase Fund. The NTPF was established by the Irish government to treat public patients who have been longest on public surgical in-patient waiting lists. By the end of June the fund had helped […]
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Medicare to give away EPR software
Medicare, the largest US Federal payer of medical care, has announced that it is to help speed up the adoption of electronic health records by giving away proven electronic patient record software. In what could prove to be a watershed move Medicare – the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people […]
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PACS tomorrow
Daloni Carlisle reports for E-Health Insider on why PACS delivery is slower than expected, and reveals that affordability is mostly to blame.
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