A torrid few months
iSoft chairman John Weston talks to E-Health Insider about the company’s new start following some difficult months.
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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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Choice? What choice?
Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from. Fiona Barr investigates.
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Marching on
E-Health Insider caught up with Accenture’s health chief Ken Lacey at HIMSS in San Diego and discussed the LSP’s progress so far.
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Choice proves tough for some practices in Cambridge
Two primary care trusts have told practices in need of hardware upgrades to their IT systems that they will need to move to the local service provider’s GP solution or live with “suboptimal performance” from existing GP systems. Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire PCTs wrote to practices last week stating that the only option the […]
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Meet the suppliers: Liquidlogic
EHI Primary Care talks to health and social care software specialist Liquidlogic, one of the suppliers to have thrived under the NHS IT programme.
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New GP choice proposals outlined
NHS Connecting for Health has outlined new proposals for delivering GP system choice based on a multi-step accreditation process. If adopted, the approach could potentially enable practices to buy systems either directly from suppliers or from their local service providers and still have them funded by the national programme. The proposals now being consulted on […]
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N3 connections needed say community pharmacists
Lack of access to smartcards and the N3 network by community pharmacists is jeopardising the roll out of the electronic prescribing service (EPS) and important elements of the new pharmacy contract, according to the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC). But NHS Connecting for Health has rejected the claim, saying that the EPS is rolling out […]
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GP system choice being blocked and mocked
A Hertfordshire IT manager reported that he was laughed at when he told his local service provider (LSP) that he wanted to use an EMIS computer system rather than the two systems offered routinely in his area. The position apparently flies in the face of a pledge in March from John Hutton, then health minister, […]
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GP system choice still under negotiation with LSPs
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) is unable to provide a firm date on when arrangements will be finalised to provide GPs with choice on their practice software. New arrangements for delivering GP choice were first promised by CfH in March, following a protest campaign by GPs unhappy at the lack of system choice that had […]
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