Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out
Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly when a patient goes home. The hospitals’ newly-installed Info-flex system from Chameleon Information Management Services (CIMS) collects the relevant clinical data and produces a discharge summary. The summary is sent electronically via the Anglia Healthcare messaging […]
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Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’
Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final stages of being drawn up by Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider understands that the supplier catalogue plans being drawn up may cover […]
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Good progress towards GP2GP
CD record transfers opposed by Hampshire PCT
A primary care trust has recommended that GP practices do not transfer patient records using a CD citing concerns over the IT literacy of practices and the security of patient information. The CD transfer system, developed in Hertfordshire and backed by NHS Connecting for Health as an interim measure, enables practices to send a CD-ROM […]
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Practices to test record transfers between systems
GP practices are likely to start testing of GP2GP record transfers between practices with different systems next month. Practices using INPS’s Vision system in Croydon have already installed version 1.1 of the GP2GP software and three EMIS practices in Croydon are in the process of receiving the update. Sean Riddell, managing director of EMIS, told […]
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Bury PCT starts using GP2GP to transfer records
Bury PCT has become the latest PCT using INPS Vision to begin using electronic GP2GP record transfers of patient records. The system was deployed simultaneously across all 33 practices in the PCT last last month. All use Vision and have Choose and Book and release one of the Electronic Prescription Service installed. Bury PCT had […]
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EMIS offers GP record transfer by CD
All EMIS LV practices in England can now transfer full patient records between practices using a CD, ahead of the arrival of the national GP2GP record transfer project. The project was started by St Albans & Harpenden, and Hertsmere PCTs, (now merged into part of West Herts PCT) which set up a system last March […]
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INPS surgeries to use iPlato text messaging
Primary care software supplier INPS has announced that surgeries across England that use its software will also have the opportunity to use iPlato’s patient alert text messaging system, thanks to a strategic alliance between the two companies. The Vision SMS system, which incorporates iPlato’s patient care text messaging system into INPS’s general practice software, is to be used by a number […]
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GPASS abandoned by Tayside and Grampian
NHS Tayside and NHS Grampian have confirmed that they will be abandoning the General Practice Administration System for Scotland (GPASS) in favour of INPS’s Vision system. The trusts decided to find alternative systems after becoming fed up with the problems practices were experiencing with GPASS. Critics say that GPASS has been plagued with problems since […]
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1000 Vision practices using Choose and Book
Primary Care IT specialists INPS are celebrating reaching 1000 GP practices using their Vision clinical system connected to Choose and Book to refer patients for specialist care. The INPS Vision system is used by 20 percent of English GP practices and includes software allowing GPs to use Choose and Book on the system, as opposed […]
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