Merseyside chooses JAC for e-prescribing
The North Mersey Health Informatics Service has selected JAC to provide an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system to more than three million patients across Merseyside.
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EMIS Web accreditation slips to January
EMIS Web is likely to receive NHS Connecting for Health accreditation in January, EMIS has announced. The company told the annual meeting of the EMIS National User Group last week that CfH accreditation is now due in January, rather than in November as it predicted earlier this summer. The long-awaited next generation system from EMIS, […]
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Docs call for clinical review of NPfIT
The British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting has called for a clinically led review of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and for more action to protect patient privacy.
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EMIS Web links to secondary care
Leading GP IT system supplier EMIS has unveiled its next generation IT system EMIS Web, promising interoperability with primary and secondary care providers. EMIS claims the system will set a new standard for the NHS, by enabling clinicians outside general practice to access a patient’s GP medical record, view other patient information recorded on the […]
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Excellence in healthcare information management
The winner of the healthcare information management category was University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. The runners up in the category, sponsored by IMS Health, were CSC and Liverpool Primary Care Trust.
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EMIS unveils EMIS Web
Leading GP IT system supplier EMIS has unveiled its next generation IT system EMIS Web, ahead of an official launch in the autumn.
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Money, money, money
The theme of this year’s NHS Confederation conference was money; or rather the coming lack of it. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Burnham wants ‘health service fit for the digital age’
New health secretary Andy Burnham has said that despite the NHS’ coming financial problems, he still wants to see a health service fit for the digital age. Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference in Liverpool this morning, Burnham insisted that the NHS still had space to focus on reshaping its services focus on quality and […]
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Consent back on LMCs’ agenda
Grassroots GPs are to return to the debate for an opt-in approach to the transfer of patient identifiable data and argue that implied consent is insufficient for the release of information on named patients. The outcome of the debate at next month’s national Local Medical Committees’ conference will be a sign of the current feeling […]
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