Mid-Essex integrates systems in just 4 weeks
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust has successfully installed an enterprise integration engine able to support interfaces in multiple medical terminologies. While integration engines can typically take three months to implement the trust was able to complete its installation of Ensemble in just four weeks. The InterSystems Ensemble interface engine will provide trust-level integration for […]
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EU data privacy legislation speeding e-health
European legislation is helping to speed up development of healthcare IT infrastructure, whilst maintaining patient data privacy and security across the continent, researchers at Frost and Sullivan argue. According to research by the firm, the European Directive 95/46/EC (protection of personal data) ‘is recognised and accepted as the world’s highest privacy standard.’ The directive is aiding […]
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Lithuania approves new eHealth strategy
The Lithuanian government has approved a new eHealth strategy for 2007-2015, aiming to improve the quality and continuity of patient services through information technology. The strategy document [currently available in Lithuanian only] builds on a previous feasibility study of eHealth system development and implementation steps from 2005 till 2008, and aims to meet European Commission […]
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Mass GP2GP roll-out to begin end July
GP2GP electronic record transfer is expected to be able to be rolled out to more than 70% of GP practices from the end of this month. Connecting for Health (CfH) has told EHI Primary Care that it expects to give GP system suppliers EMIS and INPS authority to rollout version 1.1 of GP2GP record transfer […]
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BT Health MD: we need some acutes under our belt
BT Health managing director, Patrick O’Connell, has told E-Health Insider that the pressure is mounting to deliver new systems to acute trusts in London if the company is to solidify its position as a local service provider to the NHS in the capital under the National Programme for IT. In an exclusive interview published in […]
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BT’s big mission
In an exclusive interview BT Health’s managing director Patrick O’Connell updates EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how BT is progressing on its three NPfIT contracts.
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Initiate signs agreement with SQLI Groupe
Initiate Systems, the supplier of patient data management and enterprise master patient index solutions, has announced a new strategic agreement with French healthcare identity management specialists SQLI Groupe. SQLI Groupe is one of the main suppliers in the French market who have been helping with the national and regional electronic health records (EHR) strategies. The agreement will […]
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EC announces large scale eHealth pilot
The European Commission has begun its tendering process for a large scale pilot of an EU wide implementation of eHealth services to support continuity of care. Speaking at the EC’s ICT Policy Support Programme – Work Programme 2007 launch day in Brussels on 24 May, Dr Gérard Comyn, head of the EC’s ICT for Health […]
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Siemens at the crossroads
Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens’ chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company’s healthcare IT development. William Payne assesses his legacy.
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HL7 UK to hold NHS systems interoperability seminars
HL7 UK, the promoter of healthcare interoperability standards, have announced they are to hold a series of free one-day seminars across June and July in Birmingham, York and London to promote healthcare systems interoperability. The events are aimed at NHS IT professionals and are designed to communicate the capabilities and best practice for the sharing […]
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