Healthcare Interoperability event launched by EHI
E-Health Insider is launching a new conference and exhibition called Healthcare Interoperability on 30 October at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. The event is a response to the current wide ranging discussion about interoperability in healthcare systems – what it is, where it is needed and how it can be made to happen. What is […]
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Integrated children’s system failed to prove itself
The Integrated Children’s System, the electronic case record system for social care, has failed to prove itself fit for purpose according to an independent evaluation commissioned by the government but never published. Completed in May 2007, the report from the University of York states that the evaluation “raises serious reservations about the design and use […]
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Children’s database work resumes after review
Ministers are to press ahead with plans to develop the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, despite an independent security review identifying a “significant risk” to the system due to differing security procedures from organisations who will access the data. The decision follows the publication of the executive summary of the report by accountants Deloitte and Touche, […]
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GPSoC prices published
Pricings for primary care IT systems offered under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative and the draft PCT-practice agreement for GPSoC have been published. Latest details on the GPSoC show services and pricing for the four GPSoC framework suppliers offering a system compliant to GPSoC Level 2 or above. To date EMIS, INPS, iSoft and […]
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Horizontal applications in health and social care
Denise Harrison, director and co-founder of Liquidlogic, on the growth of horizontal integration.
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Informing Healthcare announce next Wales OOH sites
Patients in north-west Wales and south-west Wales will be the next to benefit from improved information sharing between GP practices and the local out-of-hours service.
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Children’s database delayed to review security
The government has announced that the £224m children’s database, ContactPoint, will be delayed for five months, so that a full security review can take place, following last week’s HM Revenue and Customs child benefit data loss scandal. The new system, originally due to go live in spring 2008, has been postponed and is now due […]
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N Yorks GPs protest over system choice
GPs claim their PCT is acting outside the GP Systems of Choice initiative by outlining a plan to encourage all practices to move onto the local service provider solution TPP’s SystmOne. North Yorkshire and York PCT ‘s IM&T strategy states that the introduction of SystmOne will be “actively promoted and supported by the PCT” giving […]
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Wigan Council adopts NHS number as unique ID
Wigan Council has become one of the first English councils to connect health to social care services information after linking to the NHS Spine and adopting the NHS number as its unique identifier for all clients. The project represents a significant improvement in patient safety, reducing data duplication, confusion cases and the fragmentation of care […]
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PCTs plan moves to single system
Primary care trusts (PCTs) in some areas of northern England have set out plans to move all GP practices onto a single system, TPP’s SystmOne, as contracts for the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative are about to be signed. More than a dozen PCTs in the North-east have published IM&T plans which outline the […]
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