Advice to Informing Healthcare
A group of international health professionals have met in Cardiff to evaluate and advise the organisation responsible for healthcare IT across Wales. The International Advisory Group made up of professionals from Canada, the Netherlands, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Denmark, Scotland and the U.S outlined nine points they wanted Informing Healthcare to take onboard to improve […]
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NHS Number limitations confirmed
The National Patient Safety Agency has confirmed that community pharmacists, community nurses and other groups of NHS workers will be unable to meet the national requirement to use the NHS Number from the end of this week. The NPSA said it accepted that dentists, optometrists, community pharmacists, community nurses and ambulance staff in England would […]
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New CIO for Welsh Assembly Government
Gwyn Thomas has been appointed as the chief information officer for the Welsh Assembly Government, E-Health Insider has learned. Dr Thomas will continue in his role as chief executive of Informing Healthcare, the programme set up by the Welsh Assembly to improve health services in Wales by introducing new ways of accessing and storing information. […]
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Wireless days
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Hospital NHS Trust won the best use of wireless healthcare category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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50 practices to trial Welsh e-referrals
Almost 50 GP practices in Wales will shortly become early adopters for the Welsh electronic referral system, Informing Healthcare has announced. The practices will use the new Welsh Clinical Communications Gateway, a version of the Scottish Care Information Gateway already used in Scotland for 97% of referrals. The 46 practices in Cardiff and the Vale […]
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Wales publishes pathology shortlist
Six companies have been shortlisted as potential providers to develop a national pathology laboratory system for Wales. The procurement is expected to award a £7.9m national contract for pathology services to become available in 2010. The Welsh IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that Cerner, Clinisys, EMIS, iSoft, InterSystems and Technidata have been selected to […]
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Thumbs up for ECDL in Wales
Health service staff believe basic IT skills training has improved the quality of care they give to patients, according to new research. The Welsh IT agency Informing Healthcare quizzed more than 1,600 NHS Wales staff who completed training for the European Computer Driving Licence. Just over one in four (26.5%) had clinical contact with patients […]
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Welsh e-referral plans and controversy
Wales is due to launch its own electronic referral system in the summer, with a version of the clinical communications system used in Scotland. Informing Healthcare told EHI Primary Care that electronic referrals and clinical communications between GPs and secondary care will be managed through the Wales Clinical Communications Gateway. The system is a version […]
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Hart green-lights major Welsh projects
Welsh health minister Edwina Hart has approved the outline business case for the roll out of the Individual Health Record across Wales.
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New demographics services for Wales
Informing Healthcare is to roll-out its own demographics services from this month after sharing systems with England for more than two decades. The first phase of the Welsh Demographic Services, developed by Informing Healthcare in collaboration with Health Solutions Wales, will deliver online patient tracing, batch tracing and an application programming interface to provide links […]
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