West Berkshire PCTs and Torex Work on Multidisciplinary Record
Clinical teams in West Berkshire are to work with Torex Health to develop a next-generation community and primary care system which will offer online, integrated, multi-disciplinary records highlighting all aspects of a patient’s clinical care. It was announced this week that Torex had been awarded “preferred bidder” status for the final contact which is expected […]
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Surrey Ambulance Signs PPP on IT System
Surrey Ambulance has announced the signing of a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement with Premier Computer Solutions for a range of electronic capacity management systems (eCMS). The eCMS system can be used to route emergency 999 call patients to the hospital site that is most able to deal with their condition at the time at the […]
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NHS LifeHouse to Test Patient Smart Cards
A study by NHS LifeHouse , a London NHS R&D funded group, is to begin later this year to assess the feasibility of electronic patient smart cards is set to begin in Hillingdon, London. The project, which aims to begin by the autumn, will look at the feasibility of issuing a smart card to all […]
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Medicdirect and Tiscali Join Up for New Health Channel
Medicdirect, the UK health web site with content provided by NHS consultants, has signed up to provide a new health section for European internet company, Tiscali. The partners say the new section on the Tiscali portal offers information on everything from minor ailments to major operations, a virtual body tour and video clips illustrating medical […]
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Scottish GP Practices to Offer Access to Internet
A new initiative has been launched in Scotland to provide public access to the Internet in the local GP surgery, local pub, shop, hairdresser or church to help tackle the "digital divide". Social Justice Minister Iain Gray on Monday announced the £3.2 million initiative by the Scottish Executive to create a network of 1,000 new […]
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Pathology Messaging Upgrade for Torex Users
GP practices using Torex Health solutions are to receive a software upgrade which will enable them to receive encrypted pathology results from their local NHS laboratory. Torex announced this week that it has negotiated a bulk discount with the NHS Information Authority to fund the upgrades, so the 2,000 or so individual practices using the […]
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European Mobile Health Takes First Steps
Mobile health aims to do nothing less than turn traditional healthcare on its head. As numerous speakers at Mobile Health Europe pointed out, to describe care provided away from a doctor’s office or hospital clinic as "remote care" misses the point entirely if you’re a patient. The promise of mobile healthcare is to enable care […]
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Patient ID Chip Set for Global Launch
A tiny ID microchip that can be implanted in the human body, and then used to identify patients and enable their key medical information to be accessed securely, is to be launched globally at the beginning of May. The VeriChip, is a miniaturised, implantable radio frequency identification device (RFID), about the size of a grain […]
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Lord Hunt – “We Will Meet EPR targets”
Lord Hunt, the health minister with responsibility for IT, has underlined his determination that the NHS will achieve its targets on electronic records and spoken of the damage caused by the previous government’s “awful failures” in technology. Speaking to the British Journal of Health Care Management Lord Hunt said, “We will get there and I […]
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GP Pathology Messaging Contracts Under Negotiation
A central procurement process has started to ensure that GPs have the right software to handle online pathology reports and results, the NHS Information Authority announced this week. The roll out of online pathology messaging is due to be completed by the target date of December 2002. The service – the first national system to […]
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