Hart green-lights major Welsh projects
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has approved the outline business case for the roll out of the Individual Health Record across Wales.
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Graphnet supports Trafford diabetes centre
A web-based diabetes system from Graphnet has been installed in a dedicated diabetes centre in Trafford. The Diabetes Centre at Trafford General Hospital will be the hub for diabetes care in the borough, offering specialist medical and nursing care, nutritional advice, patient education, and retinal screening and podiatry services under one roof. It employs two […]
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Graphnet complete Gwent out-of-hours pilot
Graphnet has completed deployment of a new Out of Hours system that will extract demographic patient records from the majority of 96 GP practices in Gwent, South Wales. Over 70 of the 96 GP practices in Gwent have started sharing information with the out-of-hours (OOH) service, making nearly 400,000 records available. Informing Healthcare say this […]
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Rhapsody installed by three NHS trusts
Orion Health Limited, a specialist in integration and workflow technology in healthcare, has said that its Rhapsody integration engine has been adopted by three NHS trusts over the past three months. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt (RJAH) Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust have both installed Rhapsody to […]
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Welsh health IT ‘Wizards’ set different path to England
The NHS Wales IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed its first system, an out-of-hours GP summary care record system launched in December. The GP out-of-hours system in Gwent was implemented by Graphnet Health working together with Adastra software. The project which took six months cost just £200,000. The Graphnet developed summary care […]
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Trafford enables GPs and hospitals to share EPR
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has developed a new electronic patient record system with assistance from software developers, Graphnet Health, and booking specialists, Ultragenda. The new system collects and shares information across the local health community and works alongside the trusts’ existing iSoft Patient Administration System. Trafford’s head of IM&T, John Bain, told E-Health Insider: “We […]
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Wales starts summary record project
Out of hours clinicians in Gwent are to have access to an emergency summary care record in a project which is expected to eventually cover the whole of Wales. The Emergency Health Record (EHR) to be used in Gwent from this month closely mirrors the emergency care summary project in Scotland as well as elements […]
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Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients
Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking project launched ahead of the national NHS Care Records Service. The Clinical Data Repository (CDR) set up by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority has gone live this month with GP records for […]
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Graphnet says 45 PCTs now using Xtract
Graphnet Health has announced that 45 primary care trusts in England are in the process of implementing its data extraction software, Xtract. The software is designed to enable clinical data from GP systems to be accurately and securely extracted and then, subject to local data sharing agreements, used by other health professionals within a local […]
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Retinopathy software gets funding boost
Digital Healthcare, Cambridge-based manufacturers of ophthalmic and diabetic retinopathy software, have just announced that they have received £3m of funding from numerous venture capital and private equity firms. Rob Stichbury, MD of Digital Healthcare, spoke of his delight at the funding, which will be coming from Albany Ventures, Elaia Partners, Sitka Partners and YFM Private […]
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