Second southern RiO site goes live
Hampshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has become the second southern trust to go-live with RiO, following the additional contract that BT was awarded under the National Programme for IT in the NHS last year.
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EHI’s industry round up 30.11.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news about system deployments, company partnerships, product launches and other developments in healthcare IT. Allocate Software launches expenses module Allocate Software has launched an expenses module to help ease the administrative burden for staff entering, approving and processing expense claims. Paul Scandrett, director of healthcare at Allocate said: […]
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Expert view: Andy Bratt
EHI’s industry round up 16.10.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news about system deployments, achievements and awards, and other developments in healthcare IT. Nortel launches patient discharge and asset tracking solutions Nortel has announced two additions to its healthcare solution portolio. The first is a patient discharge solution, which introduces unified communications and interoperability between hospital systems to […]
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GP practices report benefits from GP2GP
Clinicians and administrative staff have reported a range of substantial benefits from use of Connecting for Health’s GP2GP electronic records transfer programme, according to CfH. The Department of Health’s IT agency said initial findings from an online survey of GP2GP users were “extremely positive” with “high proportions” of clinicians and administrative staff reporting that GP2GP […]
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Vaulting ambition
The Conservatives may give commercial health record platforms a big role in their NHS IT strategy. But how are they doing in the US?
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Five trusts breach DPA
The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued further warnings to NHS bodies about the importance of protecting data, after revealing that another five trusts have breached the Data Protection Act. The breaches were made by three London trusts – The Royal Free Hampstead, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and Epsom and St Helier University Hospital – and […]
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Hampshire outsources IT support
NHS Hampshire has announced that it has selected Healthcare Computing for its IT managed support service. The contract award means Healthcare Computing will provide IT support to more than 150 GP practices across Hampshire, the largest primary care trust in the country, covering more than 1.2m residents. Andy Eyles, head of ICT for primary care […]
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CAF demonstrator details unveiled
The Department of Health has published an overview of the work being undertaken by the nine sites chosen as demonstrators for the Common Assessment Framework. The nine successful sites were announced in February. Each partnership is led by local adult social services and involves a range of acute and community health services and IT suppliers. […]
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Study finds issues with stroke triage
Software used by ambulance staff to triage calls misses more than 50% of people who have had a stroke, according to researchers. A study published this week in the Emergency Medical Journal looked at the use of the triaging software Advanced Medical Priority Dispatch Software, which is used to judge the level of emergency from […]
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