NHS ‘Numbers for Babies’ Goes Live
A new computerised ‘numbers for babies’ system went live across the NHS at midnight on 29 October, marking a significant step towards the goal of electronic patient records. Starting today all babies born in England and Wales are to be issued with an NHS number at birth, helping to ensure that personal records are consistent […]
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ComMedica Claims First in Use of SNOMED CT
EPR systems vendor, ComMedica, this week claimed a UK “first” by announcing that it had incorporated SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT) into its PiRiLiS system. The company, a spin out from Imperial College, London, says, “The integration will mean that ComMedica can offer an EPR environment in which the terminology for hundreds of thousands of clinical […]
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Ultrasis Announces CalmHeart Sale
Ultrasis plc, the interactive healthcare company, has announced that it has secured an order for CalmHeart NSF, its NHSnet enabled clinical education product. The CalmHeart product is a patient focused interactive education and motivational tool for coronary heart disease. It is designed to help clinicians in the assessment, risk stratification and monitoring of patients. Ultrasis […]
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Bristol Chooses Paris Records System
Bristol City Council, the largest unitary authority in England, has selected supplier in4tek to supply its Paris electronic record systems and IT solutions from in4tek to support Bristol’s Social Services and Health Department’s goal of delivering integrated care. The integrated records system will be introduced over the next two years, beginning with a six month pilot […]
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Newchurch Launches PCT IT Blueprint
Newchurch Ltd has launched what it describes as a technology blueprint to enable Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement integrated Primary and Community Care Electronic Patient Records (EPR). The health IT systems and consultancy firm says that the new blueprint will enable PCTs to build modular, integrated EPR systems in line with latest national guidance that […]
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by other partners in the local health economy. Called the Joint Clinical Information System project, the project is being run by three project partners – Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the […]
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NHS Direct Needs Greater Focus
A new Public Accounts Committee report on the NHS Direct telephone information service says that callers are currently waiting too long to speak to a nurse, with many patients having to wait up over 20 minutes. The report also says that the service needs to improve response times and review productivity at individual sites to […]
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South Staffs Launches Community-wide Electronic Records
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with an enterprise-wide, patient information system, PiMS, which provides staff with real time patient information. Supplied by iSOFT the system provides the trusts 3,500 clinicians with access to the computerised details and clinical information of all patients within the 0.5 million local population. The PiMS patient record […]
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IT Strategy – You Have Your Say
E-Health Insider’s request for fantasy IT strategies for the NHS struck a chord with many of you who sent in a range of suggestions over the course of the week. A common theme was the feeling that any new IT strategy must have a strong thread of cultural change and people management, and that a […]
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Health IT Leaders Welcome Wanless
From being strictly a minority interest healthcare Information and Communication technology (ICT) has suddenly moved to centre stage in British politics. According to leading Health IT figures the challenge is to rapidly deliver systems that provide real benefits to patients. Yesterday’s Budget saw the Government stake its future on delivering dramatic improvements in the NHS, […]
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