Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire
Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK, has announced that he will retire this summer. In 1997, Burns was seconded by the Department of Health for 15 months as head of information management and technology at the NHS Executive with a remit to […]
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Interactive TV part of new NHS information strategy
NHS Direct Interactive, an extension of NHS Direct available over digital TV, has been launched as part of a new information strategy from the DH which aims to “improve equitable access to the quality information people need and want to exercise choices about their personal health." The strategy, “Better information, better choices, better health", also […]
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Life outside NPfIT: Wales
In the first part of a series, E-Health Insider looks at the developments in healthcare IT in Wales, under the Informing Healthcare programme.
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Children’s e-health strategy focuses on shared records
An information strategy published as part of the new Children’s and Maternity Services National Service Framework focuses on how health information about children held on the NHS Care Records Service could be shared with social care and education bodies, and what role the National Programme for IT, NHS trusts and local service providers have to play. The […]
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Renal Services NSF information strategy published
The Department of Health has published its information strategy to help support delivery of the National Service Framework (NSF) for renal services. Local Service Providers (LSPs) and the National Application Service Provider providing the Data Spine project will have a central role to play in ensuring the success of the strategy. The new information strategy […]
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Yahoo Targets Online Diabetes Monitoring
Two major US Internet portals have begun to provide remote monitoring services to have their condition monitored online for a monthly fee. Monitoring of chronic diseases, such as diabetes and heart disease, is emerging a practical application of the Internet to directly support patient care. Online monitoring can contribute to the effective management of chronic […]
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LSP Contracts to Have No Immediate Financial Impact Locally
NHS Chief Executive, Sir Nigel Crisp has written to all NHS chief executives stating that the Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts due to start being signed in the next few weeks will have no immediate financial impact on local NHS organisations. He also notifies chief executives that he will sign the five contracts to be […]
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Information Will Play a Key Role in Diabetes NSF
The Department of Health’s new diabetes National Service Framework (NSF) envisages a key role for information in the management of this widespread and increasingly common condition. A Diabetes Information Strategy has been published alongside the NSF by the Information Policy Unit,a move described as “absolutely essential” by campaigning charity, Diabetes UK. Factors such as the […]
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ComMedica Claims First in Use of SNOMED CT
EPR systems vendor, ComMedica, this week claimed a UK “first” by announcing that it had incorporated SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) into its PiRiLiS system. The company, a spin out from Imperial College, London, says, “The integration will mean that ComMedica can offer an EPR environment in which the terminology for hundreds of thousands of clinical […]
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by other partners in the local health economy. Called the Joint Clinical Information System project, the project is being run by three project partners – Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the […]
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