Fears of patient abuse of e-mail not realised
Doctors’ fears that an e-mail consultation service would be abused turned out to be unfounded, the International e-Health Association Conference in London heard. Dr Paul C. Tang, Chief Medical Information Officer at the Paolo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), California, said that there had been concern about introducing a facility on the foundation’s web service, PAMF […]
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No rational reason to make N3 a closed system
NHS IT director-general Richard Granger says there will be adequate controls on information passing over the new NHS network but that much of the network will be built across public switch equipment. Granger told the International e-Health Association conference in London on 16 October: “I can see no rational reason for not doing this.” He […]
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Making NHS technology more trial friendly
Like the rest of the health sector the pharmaceutical industry has been famously (or infamously) conservative about embracing new technology. IT companies have found themselves being eyed with suspicion and their solutions treated with great caution. However, according to one of the leaders in software for research trials, this is changing and the NHS should […]
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Casualty Plus opens with TrakHealth
To contact Casualty Plus, call 08456 777 999. E-Health Insider is a news organisation and is not connected to Casualty Plus. London’s private ‘casualty’ centre, launched this month by Casualty Plus, incorporates a fully integrated electronic clinical and administration system supplied by Australian health IT supplier, TrakHealth. The MedTrak system installed at the centre in […]
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Major new lab systems wins for Sysmed and iSOFT
Two major new laboratory systems contracts were announced this week which will bring modernised facilities to Leeds Teaching Hospitals and University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH). Laboratory information system specialist Sysmed Solutions has been chosen to support Whitfield Street Laboratory Ltd (WSL), a new company set up to run the UK’s largest, high volume, […]
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National Programme to sign first contract
Tomorrow morning Secretary of State for Health John Reid and NHS IT director-general Richard Granger will announce that SchlumbergerSema offering a Cerner solution have been awarded the electronic appointment booking contract for the NHS. E-booking will be the first major supplier contract for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to be let. As previously reported […]
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First LSP Contract Award Dates Slip
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has confirmed that deadlines have slipped for the award of the initial Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts, meaning that the first major contract award deadline set by the programme will be missed. Contracts for the first two LSPs – London and the North East – were […]
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UCLH Signs £70m EPR Deal with IDX and Logica
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, has announced a £70 million investment in an Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system, supplied by IDX Systems Corporation in partnership with LogicaCMG. IDX will deliver an integrated IT system called Lastword across the Trust’s eight hospitals. The system will enable UCLH to ensure that its brand new PFI-build hospital on […]
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National Programme Appoints Regional Directors
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the NHS has announced it has completed the appointment of four remaining regional implementation directors, bringing the total to five – one for each of the five geographic ‘clusters’ into which the programme has divided the English NHS. According to the national programme the new regional directors will […]
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Reader Comments: Consultants Bite Back
Last week we published comments from NHS IT managers giving their perspective on the National Programme for IT in the NHS (NPfIT) and its effect at local level. This week, management consultants have their say. A reader writes… Dear E-Health Insider, I am an independent management consultant who has been involved in a number of […]
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