Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices
Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses of government information. The independent website, which was founded by a Sheffield GP and is funded by subscriptions from trusts, regulators and others, has taken an NHS Choices data feed from a site run by […]
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Choose and Book fails to offer choice
Choose and Book failed to deliver its promise of choice of hospital, time and date of apppintment , a newly-published study shows.
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Yorkshire HIS audits software assets electronically
The Health Informatics Service, which provides IT services to 12 healthcare organisations across South West Yorkshire, can now electronically audit all the software and devices in its area, using the Centennial SAM.Suite. IM&T portfolio manager, Neil Asling, told E-Health Insider that manual audits were taking engineers weeks to complete and the service was unable to […]
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Geneva boosts telemedicine in Francophone Africa
The decentralised nature of the Swiss confederation has given cantonal governments wide autonomy to spend their money, and Geneva authorities are now using their authority to boost telemedicine in a growing number of African nations. Since 2001, RAFT, which stands for Réseau en Afrique francophone pour la telemedicine (Telemedicine Network in French-speaking Africa), has established […]
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NHS managers not committed to informatics
Efforts to harness health informatics to improve patient care have been "impeded" by a basic lack of commitment from NHS managers. This is a central message from the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum in its response to the government’s recent Health Informatics Review. The HIF finds much to praise in the report, although it […]
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60 Second Interview: Mik Horswell
In the latest of his 60 second interviews Joe Fernandez puts the questions to Mik Horswell, director of the UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals (UK CHIP).
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Agfa appoints new head of health IT
Belgian giant, Agfa Healthcare, has appointed a new executive vice president to head its healthcare IT division and grow the company’s global market position. Dr Volker Wetekam will lead Agfa HealthCare’s global HealthCare IT division, heading up an operation of around 3,000 staff members and report directly to Christian Reinaudo, president of Agfa HealthCare. He […]
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Act paves way for NIGB
The National Information Governance Board is to become a statutory body, replacing the Patient Information Advisory Group, following Royal Assent for the Health and Social Care Act 2008. Although the NIGB was formed in October last year, it was only an interim board. The PIAG was the statutory body until the Act became law. Now […]
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BJHC goes into liquidation
The company responsible for the annual Healthcare Computing exhibition in Harrogate has gone into liquidation, ending an event that has run for a quarter of a century. BJHC Ltd has run the Healthcare Computing exhibition for the past 25 years alongside the Healthcare Computing conference organised by the British Computer Society’s (BCS) Health Informatics Forum. […]
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LISs to LIPs with the Health Informatics Review
The much anticipated Health Informatics Review only comes close to setting a new direction for the national programme. But it has many other ideas to drive informatics in the NHS.
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