Speakers announced for 2008 HL7 UK conference
Speakers at the sixth annual HL7 UK Conference will include a strong supplier and international line-up. They include Matthew Swindells, the author of the NHS Informatics Review and now head of Tribal Health and international speakers who are due to speak come from Holland and Canada. Industry speakers will include individuals from BT, Cerner, CSC, INPS and […]
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Help patients with NHS Number – NPSA
Primary care organisations that have stopped issuing medical record cards should reinstate the practice as a way of informing patients about the NHS Number. This is one of the points of a Safer Practice Notice issued by the National Patient Safety Agency, which requires all NHS organisations in England and Wales to use the NHS Number […]
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NHS Number Safer Practice Notice issued
The National Patient Safety Agency has urged all NHS organisations in England and Wales to use the NHS Number as a national, unique patient identifier to reduce errors caused by local numbering systems. The NPSA, together with NHS Connecting for Health in England and Informing Healthcare in Wales, has issued a Safer Practice Notice about […]
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Testing, testing
Informing Healthcare has opened new research laboratories in Swansea. Lyn Whitfield paid them a visit.
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Individual Health Record extended to acute care
Informing Healthcare has announced that the Individual Health Record has been used for the first time in acute care. Staff at the Medical Assessment Unit of the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport have been given access to the IHR, which is drawn from GP records and contains key details about a patient’s medical history. The […]
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Infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare has published its infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales. The first edition covers networking, user access devices, servers and storage, messaging and collaboration, directory and voice services. In each case, the strategy describes the current position, the strategic aim and the next steps towards achieving this aim. However, Informing Healthcare says the resources needed […]
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Better communications for Wales
NHS Wales is to develop a national email service for all staff, including GPs and other primary care workers. A new infrastructure strategy, published by Informing Healthcare, also outlines plans to extend the Welsh Health Telephone Network to primary care, so staff can take advantage of toll-free calls between phones connected to the network. And […]
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Wales opens new health informatics lab
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has opened a new state-of-the-art health informatics research laboratory at Swansea University, designed to help find innovative new ways of treating patients. The laboratory was officially opened by the Welsh health minister, Edwina Hart, at the Swansea University School of Medicine, last week and Informing Healthcare say it […]
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Wales extends use of emergency care record
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT agency, has announced that it is to pilot an extension of the emergency care record, officially titled the Individual Health Record (IHR), to include use in a hospital medical admissions units. From next week, Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust, who piloted the initial system, will test the expanded component in […]
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Wales seeks ‘urgent approval’ for IHR rollout
The leaders of the Welsh NHS IT programme are calling for urgent approval of the business case for rollout of the Individual Health Record. Informing Healthcare’s programme board want the Welsh Assembly Government to give the go-ahead to the nationwide expansion of the IHR which is currently being piloted in Gwent and due to be […]
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