Walsall and Orion work on heart failure pathways
Walsall Primary Care Trust and Orion Systems have been chosen to produce a national demonstrator system for the electronic support of care delivery to heart failure patients. The development follows on from previous successful collaborations on IT to support the coronary heart disease national service framework (NSF) pathways for myocardial infarction and stroke rehabilitation. The […]
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Internet has blown away library walls
The Internet has blown away the walls of libraries as effectively as Semtex, Dr Muir Gray, director of the National electronic Library for Health, told a conference of NHS IT and informatics professionals in London this week. But the new online world leaves those seeking information about health with a choice of literally thousands of […]
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Wirral Health Informatics Service extends EHR capabilities
The Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) has extended the capability of its pilot electronic health record (EHR) system by installing a forms creation toolkit from i-Health. According to New Zealand-based health IT vendor i-Health, the new toolkit will enable WHIS to provide a Wirral-wide solution for referrals, orders and messaging, for all its "customers" in […]
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Record Turnout for SW Informatics Network
A record turnout for the NHS South West Informatics Learning Network’s annual conference was attributed by organisers to a rising general level of interest in NHS IT – and an understandable curiosity about future plans for the region following the cancellation of the Shires and Pan Bristol electronic records procurements. The cancellations, reported in May, […]
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Dr Gwyn Thomas: The NHSIA as a Service Provider
Understanding the complex shifting relationship between the NHS Information Authority and the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has been difficult over the past year. However, in an exclusive interview with E-Health Insider, NHSIA chief executive Dr Gywn Thomas, argues that the NHSIA’s role has remained largely unchanged. “As a special health authority […]
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The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say 2
Our first batch of readers’ comments on the National Programme for IT in the NHS brought some interesting replies. The discussion started after IT tsar Richard Granger asked, in the course of his speech at HC2003, whether there were any alternatives to the direction of travel set by the National Programme. Our first correspondent took […]
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New Forum to Support Interoperability Standards
A new Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF) has been set up to actively support the design of interoperability standards covering over 90 data flows which occur in the patient’s journey through the UK health system. The forum says its members are drawn from all the leading GP, out of hours and NHS Direct system suppliers […]
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HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News
Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this year. We list below a selection of the new launches, versions and deals announced at Harrogate last week. Click here for a full list of exhibitors. Telemedicine Solutions from Tandberg Tandberg demonstrated its videoconferencing solution, […]
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The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You (part 2)
Last week, E-Health Insider published a round-up of comments from readers on the apparent new hard line on suppliers being adopted by NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger –The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You. Since then your emails have continued to roll in. One reader emailed to ask about our readership: "Has anyone […]
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‘Radical Steps’ Urged to Boost Health Informatics
The British Computer Society (BCS) has warned that unless urgent action is taken 40 years accumulated experience of health informatics may be swept away either by the promise of the "new" or by attrition and inertia caused by the current IT planning blight, placing the NHS IT strategy at risk. In a briefing paper, called […]
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