Vision 3 first GPSoC level 4 system
INPS has announced that its Vision clinical system has become the first GP system to achieve GP Systems of Choice accreditation for its hosted services. NHS Connecting for Health has granted Vision 3 level 4 compliance under GPSoC, which means the system has met its standards for hosted services. Primary care trusts can also claim […]
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EMIS SCR compliant by April
EMIS is expected to become compliant with the Summary Care Record by the end of April, freeing the way for the full roll-out of the SCR in England. Health minister Ben Bradshaw told MPs in a Parliamentary written answer that so far three GP systems have successfully demonstrated compatibility and have been used in the […]
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GP2GP milestone reached
More than 5,000 GP practices are now using GP2GP software to transfer electronic records, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. The latest uptake figures for the CfH project cover practices using EMIS LV and INPS Vision 3 clinical systems, the only two GP systems currently accredited for GP2GP. CfH said that reaching 5,000 GP practices […]
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Making a Detailed Care Record a reality
Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care Detailed Care Record has been delivered.
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Fast followers to lead SCR roll out
Seventeen primary care trusts are due to begin implementing the Summary Care Record before 1 April as part of a ‘fast follower’ group that will lead the national roll-out of the SCR.
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That was the year in primary care IT
Vision 4 looks further off
Delivery of the new clinical system Vision 4 from GP system supplier INPS could be moved back to 2011. The latest update on suppliers’ planned release dates for NHS Connecting for Health applications shows that Vision 4 is being replanned; although the company’s hosted version of its Vision 3 system has become the first hosted […]
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GP2GP out-of-date medical records concern
GP practices that have moved from a GP2GP compliant system but left it connected to the Spine have been inadvertently sending patient records to other practices which could be out-of-date. The error came to light after it was discovered that some practices that have moved from INPS Vision 3 or EMIS LV 5.2 have retained live GP2GP […]
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Talks over BT role in London primary care systems
BT may drop responsibility for delivering new primary care systems in London and focus on building an integration engine for existing systems, EHI Primary Care understands. The local service provider for London is in contract talks about the GP solution that could see it end its responsibility to deliver new primary care systems in the […]
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Liverpool IM&T manager honoured
Kate Warriner, Liverpool Primary Care Trust’s IM&T primary care programme manager, has been awarded this year’s John Perry Prize by the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group. The prize, which is awarded yearly if there is an outstanding contribution to primary care computing, was given to Warriner for a series of projects around shared […]
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