NI gets electronic care records
Osborne shifts £3 billion to social care
Chancellor George Osborne has announced that £3 billion will be spent on jointly commissioned health and social care services in an “historic” shift towards integrated care.
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NHS CB mandated to create EHR
The NHS Commissioning Board should have plans in place for all patients to have an integrated electronic record of their care that can follow them to any part of the NHS or social care system, by 2015.
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Integrated care pilots show few benefits
An independent evaluation of the Department of Health’s integrated care pilots has shown they are delivering few of the benefits hoped for them.
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Records ‘needed for integrated care’
Two think-tanks that are well-known for influencing government policy have called for a major investment in IT to promote integrated care.
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Nuffield Trust calls for integrated care
A single patient record and single joint needs assessment process are among the goals of five health economies working to deliver more integrated care, according to a report from the Nuffield Trust. The health policy charity looked at five areas in England – Torbay, Nottingham, Redbridge, Trafford and Cumbria – where local clinicians and managers […]
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Record makers
The Summary Care Record is not the only shared record project in town. Sarah Bruce reports on how Hampshire and Birmingham are sharing information using Graphnet technology.
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London completes move to RiO 5.4
All 36 of the community and mental health trusts in London that opted to take the RiO electronic patient record have been upgraded to the latest version by local service provider BT.
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Integrated care platform from Tunstall
Telehealth and telecare equipment provider Tunstall has announced the launch of its next generation suite of telehealth solutions. Tunstall said its Integrated Care Platform will deliver assistive technology solutions to support the delivery of telehealth care between care teams and enable patients to be managed through a single user interface. The platform will also provide […]
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100 polyclinics to shake-up London
NHS London has set out a five year strategy for overhauling healthcare in the capital that includes plans to move care out of hospitals, open more than 100 polyclinics, and make greater use of email and telephone consultations. IT is at the heart of many of the plans outlined in the newly-published First Stage Report on the capital’s strategic […]
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