DH launches ITK user forum
The Department of Health has launched a user forum to support development of its interoperability toolkit.
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Royal Liverpool signs CSC portal deal
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed that is has become the first trust to sign a deal for CSC’s clinical information portal.
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Connelly: NHS IT to ‘evolve’
The Department of Health will take a “pragmatic approach” to the procurement of IT systems big and small, Christine Connelly told the final session at eHealth Insider Live 2010.
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No second round of ITK
There will not be a second round of interoperability tool kit projects run by the Department of Health. Instead, the DH’s Technology Office will work with trusts on interoperability on an ad hoc basis. Almost 18-months since the ITK initiative began, Paul Jones, head of the technology office, told E-Health Insider that nearly all of […]
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Kainos eDischarge passes ITK tests
Kainos has announced that the electronic discharge summary solution that it has been developing with Ipswich Hospitals NHS Trust has passed NHS Connecting for Health’s Interoperability Toolkit proof of concept trials. Kainos formed a consortium with Intersystems to take part in the PoC for electronic discharge summary solutions. Although it was not mandatory for the […]
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MIG from EMIS and INPS passes ITK tests
The Medical Interoperability Gateway developed by healthcare IT system suppliers INPS and EMIS has received Interoperability Toolkit accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health. The MIG is being implemented by the two suppliers through a joint venture company, Healthcare Gateway. It said ITK accreditation would open up access to records held by 75% of GP practices using […]
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InterSystems first on ITK accreditation
InterSystems has become the first IT supplier to achieve NHS Interoperability Toolkit accreditation from the NHS, for an integration solution based on Ensemble.
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System C consortium completes ITK test
Four healthcare IT suppliers have successfully completed testing for the transfer of discharge summaries from hospital to social care using NHS Connecting for Health’s Interoperability Toolkit standard. System C, Microsoft, Orion Health and Liquidlogic say their solution takes a patient discharge summary created on System C’s Medway PAS/EPR and sends it within an electronic message to […]
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Graphnet consortia completes ITK tests
The discharge summary target Graphnet has announced that its consortium of IT suppliers has successfully completed proof of concept witness testing for NHS Connecting for Health’s standards for electronic discharge summaries. The standards have been developed as part of CfH’s Interoperability Toolkit and were published in January, with the aim of completing proof of concept projects […]
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