GP suppliers to deliver IHR to Wales
Informing Healthcare has signalled a change of approach to delivering the Individual Health Record that is a key component of its IT strategy for Wales.
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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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Testing, testing
Informing Healthcare has opened new research laboratories in Swansea. Lyn Whitfield paid them a visit.
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Individual Health Record extended to acute care
Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care. Staff at the Medical Assessment Unit of the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport have been given access to the IHR, which is drawn from GP records and contains key details about a patient’s medical history. The […]
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Wales extends use of emergency care record
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has announced that it is to pilot an extension of the emergency care record, officially titled the Individual Health Record (IHR), to include use in a hospital medical admissions units. From next week, Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust, who piloted the initial system, will test the expanded component in […]
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Wales seeks ‘urgent approval’ for IHR rollout
The leaders of the Welsh NHS IT programme are calling for urgent approval of the business case for rollout of the Individual Health Record. Informing Healthcare’s programme board want the Welsh Assembly Government to give the go-ahead to the nationwide expansion of the IHR which is currently being piloted in Gwent and due to be […]
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CSW awarded contract for Welsh Individual Health Record
Informing Healthcare, the NHS Wales IT agency, has awarded a three year contract to CSW Group Ltd to commence implementation of the Individual Health Record (IHR) in out-of-hours care in North West and South West Wales. The service is scheduled to become available for the 390,000 patients by spring 2008. The areas covered by the […]
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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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NHS Wales’ IT programme ‘getting balance right’
After an exhaustive examination of NHS Wales’ progress in IT, Gwyn Thomas seemed pleased with the reports coming back to him last week.
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Welsh EHR content revealed in updated plan
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has published the second version of its national case, detailing the proposed content of the electronic health record and stressing that the patient will own the data on it. The update was published last week following last September’s National Architecture Week conference, at which clinicians and IT staff met […]
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