EDS is Preferred Supplier for NHS National e-Mail
EDS was named by the NHS Information Authority this week as the new preferred supplier for the NHS national e-mail service. The IT services multinational, which also handles substantial projects for the Inland Revenue and the Department for Work and Pensions and other government departments, was chosen ahead of Syntegra, the networking arm of British […]
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Health IT Leaders Welcome Wanless
From being strictly a minority interest healthcare Information and Communication technology (ICT) has suddenly moved to centre stage in British politics. According to leading Health IT figures the challenge is to rapidly deliver systems that provide real benefits to patients. Yesterday’s Budget saw the Government stake its future on delivering dramatic improvements in the NHS, […]
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NHS Needs To Double IT Spending – Wanless
A doubling of spending on information and communication technology will be needed to fund ambitious targets set out in the NHS Information Strategy, according to the Wanless Review on healthcare funding commissioned by The Treasury. The report’s author, former NatWest Group chief executive, Derek Wanless, and his review team recommend that the money should be […]
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NHSIA to Develop Infrastructure for Web Services
The NHS Information Authority has announced the launch of a new Health Records Infrastructure programme intended to make it possible to share patients’ healthcare details nationally by creating virtual patient records. The Health Records Infrastructure programme is intended to provide new services based on web technology. The new programme was first unveiled by new NHS […]
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NHS Web-based Email Due for Summer Launch
A national email service designed to meet the needs of the NHS is now due to be launched this summer, the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA) announced at HC2002. Development of a national email system for the NHS is linked to the NHSIA’s work to provide a national directory service, holding contact details for one million […]
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EPR at the Heart of NHS Redesign
Electronic patient records (EPRs) are good news for NHS organisations and patients, but recent academic research by the NHS Confederation’s Matthew Batchelor found that many organisations are facing significant barriers to their implementation. In an exclusive article for E-Health Insider, Batchelor summarises his key findings. The research, undertaken in autumn 2001, focused mainly on acute […]
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Danish Province Blazes Trail on EPR
Most healthcare systems in the industrialised world are struggling to develop or implement different models of electronic patient records, with the UK together with Australia, Canada, New Zeeland and the Netherlands often cited as being world leaders. But one of the most advanced and widespread EPR programmes in use is in the Danish province of […]
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Consultation on Open Source Software (OSS) Strategy Nears End
The NHS information Authority has published a reminder that the consultation period for the Office of the e-Envoy’s draft Government Policy on Open Source Software (OSS) is drawing to a close. The closing date for consultation on the draft policy document, first published in December 2001, is 12 March 2002. This policy will apply to NHS […]
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Bromley Hospital NHS Trust Signs £1.6m Network Deal
Communications and network infrastructure provider Damovo has won a £1.6m contract to provide the communications network for the new Bromley hospital, currently being built under a £155m PFI (private finance initiative) deal. The contract, worth £1.6m, will see Damovo providing a complete data, voice and cabling infrastructure. Due to open in April 2003, the new hospital […]
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Technology Adoption Likely to be Slow in 2002, say Gartner
Technology advances such as the use of XML, mobile technologies, speech recognition, workflow, business process management and public key infrastructure are tantalisingly close to prime time in healthcare, but 2002 will see only a fraction of the adoption that might be expected, according to analysts, Gartner. Introducing Gartner Predicts 2002: Healthcare, editor, Kenneth Kleinberg, writes, […]
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