Ambulance trusts join map data sharing deal
Ambulance trusts in England will now have the opportunity to share geographical data with other trusts as part of a deal between the Health and Social Care Information Centre and Ordnance Survey. The Ordnance Survey has announced that 31 ambulance trusts will now be able to join the agreement, signed in November 2005. They will […]
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Companies gear up for interoperability marathon
Two hundred and fifty representatives of seventy healthcare IT companies will gather in Barcelona next week for the 6th annual European “Connectathon” – a week-long event devoted to the quest for interoperability. As its name suggests, the meeting is a ‘connectivity marathon’ where companies will take advantage of the opportunity to test their products in what […]
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Unstoppable momentum in e-health rollout, says Granger
Connecting for Health has reached an unstoppable momentum and "essentially the war is won", chief executive Richard Granger has told a conference in Australia. He is quoted in The Australian newspaper as saying that patients are already benefiting from the programme and that deployment was well underway. "The real revolution is in patients being able […]
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EMIS pushes for local backup of hosted records
EMIS is to install back-up ‘mirrors’ of centrally hosted patient records in practices using their PCS Web software, in case their connections to N3 goes down and they lose the ability to access their data. Speaking at a roadshow in Twickenham, south-west London, Sean Riddell, deputy managing director of EMIS, explained that experience had showed […]
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Avon and Wiltshire roll out controlled drug service
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has begun installing web-based software to help manage and track the dispensing of controlled drugs. Ascribe’s Substance Misuse Service is being rolled out in two of the mental health units in the trust; West Wiltshire Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service and North Somerset SDAS, with the next […]
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FDBE chosen to implement dm+d guide
First Databank Europe (FDBE), the specialist provider of electronic drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support systems, has been selected by NHS Connecting for Health to author the next Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) implementation guidance. The new guide will provide support and a reference point for all systems suppliers implementing the dm+d and […]
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US regional information networks predicted to grow
Forrester Research is predicting that 2006 will be the year that new regional information networks and organisations (RHIOs), that will enable clinicians to securely exchange patient medical records, will slowly begin to come on line in the US. In a report on trends in US healthcare over the next 12 months, the research firm states […]
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Value of infection control software highlighted
Infection control software is a worthwhile investment for trusts, but care must be taken in staff training, configuration and connecting the systems to existing laboratory software, says a report into the experiences of nine trusts by the Health Protection Agency. The three month pilot, which involved three software companies, EpiQuest, ICNet and ICE, across 11 sites […]
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CfH to examine health and social care links
Plans to examine how links between electronic health and social care records could be made to work are to be considered by Connecting for Health this month, according to Community Care magazine. CfH’s national board is due to consider proposals on how a sub-group of the Care Record Development Board may look at linking records […]
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First live GP2GP record transfer
The first live electronic transfer of a patient’s record between GPs using GP2GP record transfer has occurred under the NHS National Programme for IT. A full patient record was transferred between the Whickam Heath Centre practice to the Chainbridge House practice, both in Gateshead on Tyneside, via the NHS spine. The transfer was made between two […]
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