BT Health MD: we need some acutes under our belt
BT Health managing director, Patrick O’Connell, has told E-Health Insider that the pressure is mounting to deliver new systems to acute trusts in London if the company is to solidify its position as a local service provider to the NHS in the capital under the National Programme for IT. In an exclusive interview published in […]
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BT’s big mission
In an exclusive interview BT Health’s managing director Patrick O’Connell updates EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how BT is progressing on its three NPfIT contracts.
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TPP gets accredited for GP2GP record transfers
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced that it has been accredited by Connecting for Health to send and receive patient records between TPP practices as part of the GP2GP record transfer project. The company says CfH has confirmed that its SystmOne product meets the safety standards required of internal GP2GP transfers. Almost a million […]
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The end of the beginning?
Are we at the end of the beginning of NHS IT modernisation? Jon Hoeksma tests Churchill’s famous quote against the evidence.
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Primary care to complete NPfIT by 2010
Primary care will have delivered most of its part of the National Programme for IT by 2010, according to Connecting for Health’s joint GP clinical lead Professor Mike Pringle. Prof Pringle told a conference organised by IT system supplier TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) that NPfIT’s vision for primary care was on track while most of […]
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Hopes for GP2GP completion by end of 2008
Connecting for Health hopes to rollout its GP2GP record transfer project to every practice in England by the end of next year, according to GP representatives. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee told local medical committees this week that the current plan is for every practice in England to be able to send and […]
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Diabetic patients pilot new shared health records
Diabetic patients in Carmarthenshire, Wales are piloting new electronic health records which will share all information about their care and check-ups by GPs and specialists. Informing Healthcare, the Welsh Assembly Government programme for NHS IT, has created the shared electronic diabetes record to bring all the patient’s information together so that the whole treatment history […]
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First GP2GP records transferred between different systems
The first GP2GP record transfers between different GP computer systems has taken place, health minister Lord Hunt has announced. The transfers, between practices using EMIS and INPS’s Vision system, took place over the last two weeks as part of Connecting for Health’s trial of interoperable record transfers at Croydon Primary Care Trust. The successful transfers […]
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GP2GP reaches 500th mark ahead of time
Connecting for Health has implemented GP2GP at 500 practices, almost a month before the planned deadline of 31 March 2007. The 500th practice received the version 1.0 system on 22 February, five weeks ahead of schedule, meeting the target set last September. GP2GP record transfers between practices caused by patients moving or switching practice. The […]
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Exercising Choice
When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary care IT agenda: consent and confidentiality, Choose and Book and systems choice.
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