Poll finds 80 percent want hospital ‘scorecards’ online
An opinion poll commissioned by ‘think tank’ Policy Exchange has found that almost 80% of patients would like more information on how their NHS hospital performs available on the internet. The poll of 1000 patients found that almost a third of people do not know how to find data about how their local NHS services […]
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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Siemens at the crossroads
Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens’ chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company’s healthcare IT development. William Payne assesses his legacy.
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Italy develops chronic disease tools
The Italian health service is aiming to make use of its IT to create an integrated tool to improve care for people with chronic conditions, a Ministry of Health official has announced. The ministry’s general director for information systems, Walter Bergamaschi told the recent World Health Congress in Barcelona that elderly people required a different mix […]
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DH to lift hospital mobile phone ban
The Department of Health has announced that a ban on patients and doctors using mobile phones in hospitals in England is to be lifted this spring. The changes follow advice published by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) which said that “a total ban on mobile phones is not required and is impossible […]
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Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out
Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly when a patient goes home. The hospitals’ newly-installed Info-flex system from Chameleon Information Management Services (CIMS) collects the relevant clinical data and produces a discharge summary. The summary is sent electronically via the Anglia Healthcare messaging […]
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Bedford Hospital using C+B to manage demand, GPs claim
Bedford Hospital is rejecting GP referrals not made through Choose and Book in an attempt to manage demand for its services, according to local GP representatives. The trust’s decision mirrors that of Milton Keynes PCT which recently told GPs that all referrals to Milton Keynes General Hospital must be made through Choose and Book, as […]
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Nuffield aims for ‘paperless’ hospital finance
Nuffield hospitals, the UK independent hospitals group, has signed a contract with document management specialists Version One to implement its electronic form design, automated document delivery and electronic payment technologies across its 40 hospitals. The Version One software will replace Nuffield’s current manual processes, which involves signing and posting cheques with hard-copy remittance advices, and […]
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Accenture winds down acute hospital trust work
Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North-east and East of England, is winding down its implementation team working on putting new patient administration system into NHS hospitals. E-Health Insider has been told that the acute implementation team was almost completely disbanded at the beginning of July, with a number […]
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Bedford Hospital gets remote access
Scalable Networks, a provider of secure network solutions, has announced the completion of a remote access solution for up to 1,500 staff Bedford Hospital NHS Trust. The first phase of the remote access system has already been rolled out to clinical staff, including pharmacists and radiologists at the hospital. The remote access solution should be […]
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