BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’
Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer system has been described as ‘preposterous’, by the chairman of the British Medical Association. Speaking exclusively to E-Health Insider Mr Johnson said: “The idea that we have to log in and out of each terminal […]
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Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR
The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although some patients will now get the chance to view their record online before information is uploaded for sharing. The decision appears to have won the backing of the British Medical Association and the Royal College […]
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Fujitsu hits 100m PACS images
Fujitsu Services, the NHS’s IT prime contractor for the South of England, has today recorded the 100 millionth patient image stored in its data centre as part of the Connecting for Health, picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) programme. Two million images a week are being added to Fujitsu’s PACS data centre, with the programme […]
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BMA issues new guidance on NHS CRS
The BMA Chairman has written to all BMA members to provide them with guidance on the NHS Care Records Service and outlining what it means for doctors and their patients. Although Connecting for Health is due to begin an expensive public information campaign, the BMA says it believes that patients should be made aware now […]
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Metal medicine
E-Health Insider looks at the continuing work into robotics in healthcare being carried out by Imperial College, London.
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Cerner switches on at St James, Dublin
A new Cerner system at St. James Hospital, Dublin, the Republic of Ireland’s largest hospital, combines data, imaging, orders and results and establishes the foundation for a full electronic patient record. Cerner says patient care will benefit from the successful switch-on of what it describes as a landmark system that unites diverse and complex computer […]
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NE trust faces clinical systems conundrum
A mental health trust board formed from three merged organisations has been advised to stop using a clinical information system supplied under the National Programme for IT on part of its new territory and use another single system across the whole trust. Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust board members received a paper on options […]
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Cayton to lead summary records taskforce
Patients’ ‘tsar’ and chair of the Care Records Development Board, Harry Cayton, will lead the taskforce set up to help get the NHS Summary Care Record underway and resolve outstanding issues over its introduction, it was announced today. The taskforce membership will also include leaders from the main clinical professions and representatives from patient groups […]
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Clinicians warn CRS will damage confidentiality
Concerns about the negative impact that the planned national database of patient records, the NHS Care Record Service national record, will have on patient confidentiality have been voiced by frontline doctors, Writing in the British Medical Journal several doctors set out their concerns about the impact on patient confidentiality of the creation one database containing the […]
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Accolades for clinical and IT collaboration
NHS Connecting for Health has awarded five accolades to NHS organisations for their work in improving patient led services where clinicians, IT and information teams have worked together. The accolades went to: South Tees NHS Trust for its Hospital at Night (H @ N) rapid response system. Every junior doctor who is part of the […]
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