NHSIA to Develop Infrastructure for Web Services
The NHS Information Authority has announced the launch of a new Health Records Infrastructure programme intended to make it possible to share patients’ healthcare details nationally by creating virtual patient records. The Health Records Infrastructure programme is intended to provide new services based on web technology. The new programme was first unveiled by new NHS […]
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GPs Believe EPRs Will Improve Patient Care
A major new survey of the attitudes Yorkshire GPs to electronic patient records in primary and community care has revealed that 60% of them believe that the introduction of electronic records will improve patient care. However, almost half (48%) of them say they either will not, or don’t know, whether they will be able to […]
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Switching on Lightbulb
Early birds who rose in time for an HC 2002 breakfast meeting were rewarded with an account of the preparatory work underway on IT for cancer services in Birmingham with Lightbulb, the IT vendors’ group working to produce joined-up healthcare using web-based services. Colin Innes, director of IM&T for Birmingham health authority, told E-Health Insider, […]
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NHS Web-based Email Due for Summer Launch
A national email service designed to meet the needs of the NHS is now due to be launched this summer, the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) announced at HC2002. Development of a national email system for the NHS is linked to the NHSIA’s work to provide a national directory service, holding contact details for one million […]
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Supanet Selects Medicdirect Content
Supanet, the UK’s largest privately owned Internet Service Provider (ISP) has selected Medicdirect.co.uk, the health website hosted by NHS consultants, to launch its new-look Health Channel www.supanet.com/health/. With the additional content from Medicdirect, Supanet will now offer its million strong subscriber base specific information on everything from minor ailments to major operations. New features include […]
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NHS Scotland Launches Updated IT Strategy
An updated IT strategy for the NHS in Scotland has been launched which aims to cut the 10m pieces of paperwork exchanged between GP practices and hospitals in Scotland. The new strategy will be supported by £2m in new funding for next year, on top of the £50m already committed over three years. The investment […]
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Enterprise Resource Planning Vital for NHS
The NHS must adopt modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to make better use of its capacity and resources if it is to cope with steadily rising levels of demand, leading IT vendors have warned. Hugo Schellens, general manager of Belgium bookings systems firm Ultragenda, said that the main problem facing the NHS was the […]
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Senior NHSIA Director Resigns
Graham Folmer has resigned his position as Director of Programme and Service Delivery with the NHS Information Authority . Responsible for delivery of the NHSIA’s programmes of work, Folmer has executive responsibility for key NHSIA projects such as GP connect and NHSnet. An NHSIA spokesperson told E-Health Media that Folmer had not resigned to take […]
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GPs Get Connected to NHSDirect
Patients registered with a group of practices in South West London have become some of the first to benefit from encrypted clinical messaging to link together out of hours services, NHS Direct and GP practices. The new system enables a record of the details of an NHS Direct out of hours consultation to be securely […]
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Electronic Prescriptions Project Schedule Under Threat
One of the key figures behind the development of electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) in the UK has publicly questioned whether the Department of Health (DH) can achieve its target of rolling out ETP nationally by 2006. Ewan Davis, chairman of PharMed, which is leading the Transcript consortium — one of three approved ETP pilots […]
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