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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Torex Buys InHealth Solutions
Torex, the leading UK-based health software specialist, has acquired the laboratory, radiology, oncology, mental health and primary care operations of InHealth Solutions for £3.5 million in shares. The deal marks a further significant consolidation of the health IT supplier market serving the NHS and reinforces Torex’s position in both the primary and secondary care sectors. […]
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Portsmouth Predicts Savings from Clinical Workflow System
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has announced it has implemented an XML-based clinical workflow system, which it anticipates will help support early discharges, reduce the average length patient stays in hospital and deliver cost savings. Clinical IT solutions provider, Graphnet, has developed and implemented the new clinical workflow system in the Medical Assessment Unit (MAU) at […]
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Broadband Upgrade for NHSnet Signed
The NHS has signed a contract with BT and C&W to provide broadband upgrades to NHSnet, the NHS’s private data network. The total value of the contract between BT and the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) for the upgraded network is £168m. Funded by the NHSIA, the upgrades will give every GP practice a 256Kbs fixed […]
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GP Poll Shows High Awareness of Broadband
81% of English GPs claim awareness of broadband, but they are less knowledgeable about its applications and sceptical about its power to improve the patient’s experience of the NHS, according to an NOP Poll. NOP interviewed 101 GPs in mid-December 2002 using the GPnet omnibus research panel. Asked to rate the importance of broadband benefits […]
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10 Ways To Improve NHS IT – a Hospital Doctor’s View
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, worked in IT before studying medicine. His unusual background prompted E-Health Insider to ask him to list the top 10 improvements he would like to see in healthcare IT. Read on for the result… Until the age of 29 I was a computer programmer working in the City. Then I decided […]
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CSW Builds HRI Prototype
CSW Health has announced that it has developed a Health Records Infrastructure (HRI) prototype for South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust in support of the NHS Information Authority’s development of a national HRI infrastructure. Currently undergoing final testing the new system, which provides an index of all records held on an individual patient in local clinical […]
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iSOFT Buys E-booking Specialist Revive
iSOFT Group Plc, the UK healthcare IT firm, has acquired Revive Group Ltd, a leading supplier of e-booking solutions to the NHS. The move sees iSOFT move into a new application area central to the national NHS IT programme. The national programme includes a commitment to enable GPs to book hospital appointments for patients on-line, […]
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Blair Pledges NHS Broadband Access
Tony Blair has pledged £6bn of public money to deliver high-speed internet access to every school and doctor’s surgery by 2006, as part of a ’21st century revolution’ in the delivery of public services. Speaking at a government conference to discuss its delivery of e-commerce and e-government initiatives, the Prime Minister said £1bn of investment […]
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Electronic Booking Shifts Up a Gear
A further 45 electronic booking programmes are to start as the NHS gears up to meet its target of making all hospital appointment booking electronic by March 2005, health minister John Hutton announced today. Speaking at a conference held to celebrate the achievements of the five ‘Enterprise Communities’ already experimenting with electronic booking, Mr Hutton […]
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