System C buys private healthcare specialist IQ Systems
System C Healthcare has acquired private sector health IT specialists IQ Systems Services in a deal worth approximately £2m, it was announced today. IQ is a leading supplier of patient management and clinical software solutions for private treatment centres and hospitals. The company’s most popular product is IQUtopia, a purpose-built patient management, healthcare scheduling and clinical […]
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Information Governance will be ongoing challenge
Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the information governance challenge for shared records and use of patient data in an electronic NHS would be an ongoing challenge for the coming decade, in the same way that getting clinical governance right had been the challenge of the previous decade. Quizzed about privacy […]
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BT to create London PACS archive by September
Having deployed Picture Archiving and Communications Systems to all 23 trusts in London by the end of last month, BT is now beginning work on a medical imaging archive which will be able to store and access images from across the cluster into one central image repository. The local service provider to the London cluster has […]
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Patient access to records ‘can bring benefits to PCTs’
Patient access to records can help primary care trusts meet their fitness for purpose targets, the Healthcare Computing conference heard. Colin Cohen, head of informatics at Tameside and Glossop PCT which has been involved in pioneering work on record access, told the conference about the benefits of allowing patients to view their records. He said: […]
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Unified communications in healthcare
Single, converged networks supporting IP telephony, videoconferencing, video-on-demand and contact centres offer benefits for healthcare that should not be ignored, argues Cisco’s Terry Espiner.
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100 practices to rollout patient access on the net
Patient access to medical records over the internet is to be rolled out to 100 practices. Hadfield Medical Centre in Glossop, Derbyshire, was the first GP practice to enable to a patient to view their medical record over the internet just under a year ago and since then eight other practices have joined the project. […]
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CD record transfers opposed by Hampshire PCT
A primary care trust has recommended that GP practices do not transfer patient records using a CD citing concerns over the IT literacy of practices and the security of patient information. The CD transfer system, developed in Hertfordshire and backed by NHS Connecting for Health as an interim measure, enables practices to send a CD-ROM […]
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PRIMIS CHART e-audit tool launched
An e-audit tool to allow GP practices to assess the quality of their data as part of the IM&T directed enhanced service has been launched by NHS Connecting for Health (CfH). GP practices are being encouraged to download the CHART e-audit tool to benchmark themselves against others and use the results to help focus on […]
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Change in stance on migration costs for GP systems
NHS Connecting for Health has agreed to provide a fixed contribution to cover the migration costs for GP practices moving to hosted systems outside their local service provider solutions, in a change of its stance on GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC). An update on the GPSoC proposals released this week also confirms the intention to […]
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Review says e-SAP fragmented and lacks standards
A Connecting for Health review of implementations of the electronic single assessment process (e-SAP) has revealed a lack of integration and standards across the country. A National SAP Action Team set up by Connecting for Health’s Care Record Development Board carried out a survey of e-SAP implementation in early summer and consulted on how e-SAP implementation should […]
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