Trafford resumes use of shared EPR
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has restarted a programme that allows GPs and hospital-based staff to access patient information from a single electronic patient record.
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Stockport Health Record shares data
GP system supplier Microtest and clinical record specialist Graphnet Health have announced the successful implementation of a data-sharing system at NHS Stockport.
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Graphnet consortia completes ITK tests
The discharge summary target Graphnet has announced that its consortium of IT suppliers has successfully completed proof of concept witness testing for NHS Connecting for Health’s standards for electronic discharge summaries. The standards have been developed as part of CfH’s Interoperability Toolkit and were published in January, with the aim of completing proof of concept projects […]
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First Welsh practice live with IHR
The first GP practice and out-of-hours service in Wales has gone live with Informing Healthcare’s new Individual Health Record solution. The biggest GP practice in Wales, the Argyle Medical Group in Pembroke Dock, which has 27,000 patients, has become the first practice to use the IHR solution from GP system supplier INPS. The pilot will […]
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Graphnet Health partners with PCTI
Clinical record specialists Graphnet Health have announced a partnership with document management system suppliers PCTI. Graphnet said the interoperability partnership with PCTI would enable information from secondary care settings to be transferred securely back into GP systems. Graphnet said it had been working with primary care trusts and NHS trusts for more than 15 years […]
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Expert view: Andy Bratt
GP suppliers to deliver IHR to Wales
Informing Healthcare has signalled a change of approach to delivering the Individual Health Record that is a key component of its IT strategy for Wales.
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Personal view: Mary Hawking
Call for phase two CAF demonstrators
The Department of Health is looking for a wider range of IT systems to take part in demonstrator sites for information sharing across health and social care. The DH has called for expressions of interest and applications for phase two of the Common Assessment Framework programme, with £11m funding available. The DH ran a consultation […]
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Paperless without a PAS
Sarah Bruce talks to Stephen Parsons, IM&T projects manager at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.
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