10 Ways To Improve NHS IT – a Hospital Doctor’s View
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, worked in IT before studying medicine. His unusual background prompted E-Health Insider to ask him to list the top 10 improvements he would like to see in healthcare IT. Read on for the result… Until the age of 29 I was a computer programmer working in the City. Then I decided […]
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Carry On Spending and Modernising, Says Brown
Chancellor Gordon Brown has ordered the NHS to carry on with plans for extra spending and modernisation despite shortfalls in national revenues which have forced up borrowing. The Financial Times reported that borrowing would have to rise by £20bn – almost twice the figure forecast back in April – to enable the government to stick […]
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ComMedica Wins European Innovation Award
Innovative UK-based health IT firm ComMedica’s PIRILIS clinical information software has won the ‘best software Innovation’ category at the European Innovation Awards 2002, beating off competition from 20 other entrants from across Europe. A panel of independent judges singled ComMedica out from among competing entries after considering the extent to which the entrants’ ideas, methods […]
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Questions in the House About DG Role
Mark Todd, Labour MP and a former IT director, has told E-Health Insider that he believes the current management structure for the National Programme for IT in the NHS "appears rather cloudy" and "is not the optimum arrangement". He says greater clarity over lines of accountability and leadership may be needed. The former head of […]
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Siemens Tops European Health IT League
The health services division of Siemens Medical Solutions has been named the leader in the European Hospital Information Systems (HIS) market by health markets analyst Frost &Sullivan. Siemens purchase of Shared Medical Systems (SMS) has catapulted it into the number one slot in the European HIS sector, where it is now estimated to have an […]
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Combined Government Gateway Review Due for IT Programme
The National NHS IT Programme is scheduled to be submitted to a combined Government Gateway review by the end of October, with a full business case then due to be submitted to Treasury for approval by November. The latest version of the timetable for the National IT Programme was detailed by Jeremy Thorp, the NHS […]
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Planning Blight Accusation For IT Programme
Over 300 IT suppliers and would-be suppliers to the NHS packed the QE2 Conference Centre in London last week for an update on the National IT Programme – but they found hard news of progress thin on the ground. BBC science correspondent, Fergus Walsh, who chaired the event, conveyed the opinion of a participant who […]
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Advice Paves the Way for National Clinical Audit
Advice is published this week on the National Clinical Audit Support Programme (NCASP) which will eventually yield comparative data on the performance of clinical services and on individual practitioners. The programme forms part of the government’s response to the Kennedy Report on child heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1984 and 95. Kennedy […]
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Growing Interest in EPR Systems Around Europe
Increasing interest in electronic patient record systems is found in a new study of European healthcare IT vendors by consultants, Frost & Sullivan. The attraction lies in the ease with which EPR systems can be devised using existing technologies, but the report’s author, Chris Cherrington, points to a significant problem. "While hospitals and healthcare standards […]
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New Director General of NHS IT Appointed
The NHS’s first ever director general of information is Richard Granger who joins the service from Deloitte Consulting. Mr Granger comes to healthcare with extensive experience of public sector IT at Deloitte where his clients have included Transport for London and the former Departments for Education and Employment and Social Security. In his new high-profile […]
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