RIO becomes strategic solution for London
CSE-Servelec has announced to financial markets that it has completed contract negotiations with BT to provide its RiO system to NHS community, mental health trusts and child health trusts in London. BT is the prime contractor, or local service provider, responsible for upgrading health service IT systems in the capital as part of the £6.2bn […]
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Mental health ‘choice’ website launched
A new website has been launched to provide online support to patients with mental health problems, in line with the new national framework ‘Our Choices in Mental Health’, which offers more treatment choices to those who require it. The website, www.mhchoice.org.uk, is designed to support patients with mental health conditions understand the new framework, which makes more […]
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Free computerised CBT for depression online
Free computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (CCBT) for depression has been made available online after a deal between software developers Ultrasis and the Mental Health Foundation. The online self-help program, Depression Relief, is available for a free four-week trial from a link on the Mental Health Foundation website. The system is a cut-down version of Ultrasis’ […]
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DH planning telecare pilot for one million people
The Department of Health (DH) is to soon seek expressions of interest for a large scale project examining how technology can be used to keep patients with long term conditions out of hospital. The Integrated Care and Assistive Technology (ICAT) project, outlined earlier this year in the DH white paper Our Health Our Care Our […]
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Tower Hamlets goes live with e-SAP
Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has become the first London trust to implement new electronic Single Assessment Process (e-SAP) software, allowing its NHS and social services staff to share care records electronically. e-SAP is NHS Connecting for Health’s project for joint electronic health and social care assessment and care planning for individuals. In the future […]
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CSC say they want to take over from Accenture
CSC today confirmed they would compete to take over from Accenture, should the company withdraw from its contracts to the North-east and Eastern cluster of the National Programme for IT. Speaking at a conference in New York, CSC’s chief financial officer, Mike Keane, said: “If the cluster becomes vacant, that would be potential business. We […]
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Sunderland PCT implements substance misuse EHR
Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust has become the first NHS trust to try the new CareNotes Substance Misuse System, in a two-year deal worth £35,000. The software was launched by Strand Technology in March and is the first IT solution for substance misuse to combine both electronic patient care records with a prescribing module. Dave […]
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Meet the suppliers: Ascribe
EHI talks to Stephen Critchlow, head of healthcare IT group Ascribe, about his clinical background and future plans for consolidation.
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INPS Vision 4 to be London’s core GP solution
INPS’s Vision 4 is to be the core primary care solution offered to practices in London. The decision to opt for INPS (formerly In Practice Systems) as the preferred supplier in the capital is outlined in two letters to primary care trust chief executives from BT and London NHS chief executive David Nicholson yesterday. Patrick […]
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NHS officially told of London Cerner switch
NHS trusts across the capital today received official confirmation that BT is to replace GE Healthcare – previously IDX Systems – for Cerner as its supplier of electronic patient record software in London. As first reported by E-Health Insider on 13 June, BT will replace IDX, its current clinical software supplier, with Cerner for secondary care. […]
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