Liquidlogic deploys children’s system at Cumbria
Health and social care software specialists Liquidlogic have announced that their ‘Protocol’ integrated children’s system has been successfully deployed by Cumbria County Council. The council had previously been working on a paper-based system which was outdated and did not comply with the Department for Education and Skills’ (DfES) Every Child Matters agenda, which says local […]
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BT completes switch to Cerner
BT, the local service provider for London under the NHS IT investment programme, has confirmed that it has completed the switch from GE Healthcare to Cerner as its main clinical software sub-contractor. The company said in its its half year results today: "BT continues to make good progress on its NHS National Programme for Information Technology […]
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GP wins award for recall system
Dr Lorna Dunlop, GP at Riverview Medical Centre, Johnstone has won the IT Innovation Award for Best Use of IT in Practice at the Scottish Clinical Information Management in Practice (SCIMP) conference for her eponymous Dunlop Recall Management programme. The system helps to co-ordinate care around chronically ill patients, through an electronic system to monitor […]
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DH planning telecare pilot for one million people
The Department of Health (DH) is to soon seek expressions of interest for a large scale project examining how technology can be used to keep patients with long term conditions out of hospital. The Integrated Care and Assistive Technology (ICAT) project, outlined earlier this year in the DH white paper Our Health Our Care Our […]
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INPS Vision 4 to be London’s core GP solution
INPS’s Vision 4 is to be the core primary care solution offered to practices in London. The decision to opt for INPS (formerly In Practice Systems) as the preferred supplier in the capital is outlined in two letters to primary care trust chief executives from BT and London NHS chief executive David Nicholson yesterday. Patrick […]
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First P1R2 C+B implementation claimed in Crewe
Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust has upgraded its iCS patient administration system to cope with P1R2 (phase 1, release 2) of Choose and Book. As a result of the upgrade, the trust, based over two sites in Crewe, will now be able to access and review the referral information attached to the electronic appointment messages sent […]
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London child health system led to vaccination problems
Problems with the introduction of a new child health information system, provided under NHS Connecting for Health to ten PCTs in North London and Essex, have created difficulties in identifying which infants and children are due for jabs, issuing vaccination calls and recording whether they have received them. According to a report in the Observer […]
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Meet the suppliers: Liquidlogic
EHI Primary Care talks to health and social care software specialist Liquidlogic, one of the suppliers to have thrived under the NHS IT programme.
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Care of the elderly system launched by IMS
A new system from IMS Maxims that supports the wide range of professionals caring for older people has gone live in the mid-western region of Ireland. The Maxims Care of the Elderly (CoE) Integrated Care Records brings together information for nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, doctors and other members of the care team. […]
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Bavaria launches patient-controlled health records
The German Patient-Partner Association (PPV), a health provider network, and the German statutory health insurance organisation AOK Bavaria are to introduce electronic communications between GPs and patients. The system will include a patient-controlled personal electronic health record, which enables patients to determine who can access their record, or nominate their doctor or carer to set […]
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