DTI Funds Diabetes E-Health Project
Docobo (UK) Ltd has been awarded a Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) SMART research and development grant for an e-health project based on home-based remote management of the outpatient care for hypertensive diabetics. The DTI SMART award is intended to help develop technology to significantly improve the long term outcome of hypertensive diabetics and […]
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Data Improvements Essential to Make GP Monitoring Work
Researchers at Imperial College London have devised a system for monitoring mortality rates which could help to alert authorities to crimes such as the murders committed by GP Harold Shipman and also provide useful feedback on the overall quality of care. However, they caution that data quality improvement is essential. The study, published in the […]
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ISoft and Torex Announce Merger Plans
iSoft and Torex, two of the UK’s leading health IT firms announced this week that they intended to merge to create the UK’s largest provider of healthcare information systems able to play a leading role in the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS and be a leading player internationally. The two companies said […]
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ETP Pilots Ended for 5,000 Patients
The two remaining operational pilots for electronic transfer of prescriptions ETP are to be ended by the Department of Health (DoH), without a clear plan of how ETP will be taken forward. More than 5,000 patients who had been benefiting from the service will now have to switch back to physically collecting their prescriptions. ETP […]
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National Programme ‘Mobilises’ for Delivery
The shape of things to come on NHS IT started to become clearer during the course of Healthcare Computing with a series of key announcements made on how and when the NHS IT Programme is moving from its initial ‘mobilisation phase’ to focus on delivery, and the key personnel who will be responsible. Five Local […]
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‘Trust Me’, I’m the Director-General
NHS Director-General of IT Richard Granger this week used his first major public speech to make a personal appeal to the NHS IT community, clinicians and suppliers to rally behind him and back his route map for modernising NHS IT. In a keenly anticipated announcement he told a packed audience at HC 2003 in Harrogate […]
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Over 2000 Reponses For NHSIA Confidentiality Campaign
Over 2000 responses to the NHS Information Authority’s national consultation on confidentiality are being analysed and early results are expected in April. Speaking to E-Health Insider, the authority’s head of patient and citizen relations, Marlene Winfield, said 2400 responses had been received using the consultation questionnaire, along with 100 letters. Around 50% of the responses […]
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Scottish Waiting List Database Full of Errors
A waiting times database set up by the Scottish NHS to provide patients with faster access to treatment has come under fire for containing serious errors. According to a 23 February report in Scotland on Sunday the new system seriously understates the delay facing some hospital patients. The article says that in one case the […]
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Technologies Open Up New Consultation Possibilities
The importance of public services embracing new technology in their consultations with users and citizens is emphasised in a new report from the Audit Commission. The report, Connecting with Users and Citizens says, “In our discussions with service providers, those who used a wider choice of approaches and techniques were more likely to see themselves […]
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The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You (part 2)
Last week, E-Health Insider published a round-up of comments from readers on the apparent new hard line on suppliers being adopted by NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger –The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You. Since then your emails have continued to roll in. One reader emailed to ask about our readership: "Has anyone […]
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