Healthcare Interoperability Preview
ASSIST says idea NHS like a bank ‘fundamentally flawed’
NHS informatics professional body ASSIST has published a paper saying the original NHS National Programme for IT plan of a one size fits all approach “does not work”.
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PACSnet to close after funding pulled
The PACSnet advisory group is to close, after the NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) announced that it will cease funding the group.
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Community nurses get mobile access to iPM
Community nurses at Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust have gone live with 3G technology that allows them to access its iPM system and record patient activity. A total of 60 nurses working for the community out-of-hours service in Wolverhampton have been given 3G enabled-laptops to enable remote access to the system provided by its local service provider. […]
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Medting creates global image repository
A Spanish medical informatics consultant is enlisting researchers and practitioners in an attempt to create what might be the first truly global online repository of medical images and multimedia for physicians. “The idea is to create a Web community,” says Miguel Cabrer, president of Medting.com. The interactive site, formerly known as MDPIXX, also includes platforms […]
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Pringle outlines future of PRIMIS +
The strategic director of PRIMIS + has said that the organisation is looking to add value to its CHART audit software, in order to enhance benefits for primary care trusts. Speaking at the annual PRIMIS + conference in Nottingham, Professor Mike Pringle acknowledged that CHART is “clunky” and said that it is “very keen” to […]
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Hospitals to assess satisfaction ‘in real time’
Health secretary Alan Johnson told the Labour Party conference yesterday that he wants to see NHS trusts collecting “immediate feedback” from patients on their experience of care. The Mirror newspaper was briefed that this might mean hospitals giving patients PDAs. However, the Department of Health could only say that trusts might “opt” to use hand-held […]
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Keogh outlines priorities for new head of IT
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has stepped down as the Department of Health’s interim director general for informatics and handed over to new chief information officer for health, Christine Connelly. But the architect of surgical outcome reporting in the UK has pledged he will remain involved in NHS informatics. Sir Bruce and Connelly were […]
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UK Terminology Centre appoints clinical director
NHS Connecting for Health has appointed Dr James Paton as clinical director for the UK Terminology Centre. The centre, which is hosted by CfH’s Technology Office, was established in 2007 to provide a central point for managing, distributing, supporting and controlling the use of the SNOMED CT clinical terminology and related assets throughout the UK. […]
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60 second interview: Jean Roberts
Our latest 60 second interview is with Dr Jean Roberts, an internationally known health informatician.
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