Tough at the top
Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy will have plenty on their desks when they take over the top jobs in NHS IT in mid September. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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New leaders for NHS IT
The Department of Health has announced Christine Connelly as the first chief information officer for health and named Martin Bellamy as director of programme and systems delivery, leading NHS Connecting for Health. The new appointments follow the departure of Richard Granger as director general of NHS IT in January and a review of NHS IT […]
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Doctors complain about rating website
Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month to enable patients to post comments about individual GPs and patients. However doctors have complained that the site is in breach of the Data Protection Act by including their names on its database and refusing […]
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Yorkshire HIS audits software assets electronically
The Health Informatics Service, which provides IT services to 12 healthcare organisations across South West Yorkshire, can now electronically audit all the software and devices in its area, using the Centennial SAM.Suite. IM&T portfolio manager, Neil Asling, told E-Health Insider that manual audits were taking engineers weeks to complete and the service was unable to […]
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Satellite-linked robot does ultrasound at sea
French robotic specialist Robosoft has partnered with the European Mobile and Robotised Telechography (MARTE) project, to carry out the first robotic tele-ultrasound examination via satellite. The company used its remotely controlled Estele robot with a wireless handset and developed using a robuBox software development kit, to perform an ultrasound from different locations, observed by a […]
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Liverpool iPM glitch overbooks some clinics
Problems with a new iSoft iPM patient administration system left some patients at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust arriving for appointments that staff could no longer find records of having been made. The problems appear to relate issues with migrating appointment data from the trust’s old PAS system leading to appointment […]
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Agfa appoints new head of health IT
Belgian giant, Agfa Healthcare, has appointed a new executive vice president to head its healthcare IT division and grow the company’s global market position. Dr Volker Wetekam will lead Agfa HealthCare’s global HealthCare IT division, heading up an operation of around 3,000 staff members and report directly to Christian Reinaudo, president of Agfa HealthCare. He […]
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European Court fines Finland for data breach
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the Finnish government to pay out €34,000 because it failed to protect a citizen’s personal data, by not adequately securing and protecting a patient’s confidential record. The case could prove significant by creating a legal precedent, based on the European Convention on Human Rights, linking data security […]
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Wireless mannequin helps train health professionals
University of Portsmouth to use a portable mannequin which can be remote-controlled to talk, sweat, bleed, vomit and have a heart attack, for their clinical training from September.
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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