Its name is RiO
The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health outlines the benefits of the RiO electronic care records system to London.
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CSW Health goes into administration
Health IT firm CSW Group Ltd, the owners of CSW Health, the Oxford-based specialist in XML-based software applications, has been placed into administration. The development leaves the future support of a system used by ten London primary care trusts to monitor child vaccinations unclear. It also appears to throw a spanner into plans to develop […]
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Child immunisation software ‘creating risks’
The interim child health system in London is creating risks to the effective running of the childhood immunisation programme, according to PCTs.
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iPlato deploy SMS to Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
Health text messaging specialists iPlato have agreed a deal to provide their patient care messaging service to 26 doctors’ surgeries in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham covering over 165,000 patients. The deal is iPlato’s largest deployment to date and will allow patients to interact with their surgery via mobile text messaging on a […]
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Fujitsu picks McKesson for Child Health
McKesson has been selected by Fujitsu to provide its CarePlus child health software to NHS trusts across the South of England under the NHS IT modernisation programme. Fujitsu is the prime contractor – or local service provider (LSP) – for the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the South, responsible for upgrading NHS […]
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PCT uses iPlato for children’s jabs reminders
A South London PCT has used the iPlato text messaging system to remind parents that their child requires a booster vaccination. Lewisham PCT wanted to improve patient compliance to the childhood immunisation schedule and so used the iPlato Patient Care Messaging (PCM) system to start a text message campaign reminding parents that their child is […]
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Agreement reached on CHIA replacement
Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution for child health, on condition BT meets a series of risk mitigation requirements by August. The decision means that some of the PCTs may have to continue using the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) for […]
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500th practice goes live with SystmOne GP system
StowHealth Centre has become the 500th practice to go live with the SystmOne integrated GP record system provided by TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) and delivered by the CSC Alliance for NHS Connecting for Health. The new GP system, which provides a shared GP clinical record, will support the delivery of care for the 15,500 […]
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Information problems highlighted in complaints review
A quarter of second-stage complaints in the English NHS related to information, according to the Healthcare Commission’s report on 16,000 complaints between July 2004 and July 2006. The report identified ten common themes that came up regularly from second-stage complaints. Information problems were cited as a cause for complaint with regards to safety, care surrounding […]
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Troubled child health system to be replaced
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) looks set to replace an interim child health information system deployed in London last year and has already halted plans to extend it to include a community module. It has also emerged in a leaked letter, seen by E-Health Insider Primary Care, that a review of the problematic system has revealed […]
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