Wales to receive Map of Medicine
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh NHS IT programme, has announced that it has secured Map of Medicine, a web-based clinical pathways and knowledge sharing tool, for deployment across Wales. The tool can be used by healthcare professionals to view clinical pathways across several disciplines, including A&E, mental health and palliative care. Managers and commissioners can use […]
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Summary care record delayed and abridged
The content of the summary record uploaded to the spine will be cut back to include just allergy and prescription information initially, Connecting for Health (CfH) has decided. The decision to significantly abridge the initial content of the record has been made to allay GPs’ concerns over the accuracy of their records. It could also […]
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Free online therapy for Trafford residents
Trafford PCT, in collaboration with the local metropolitan council, is to start offering free online cognitive behaviour therapy to all residents in the area. The Relief Series, an online step-by-step guide to beating anxiety, depression, stress and insomnia, will be available to all 1.5m people within the Trafford metropolitan boundaries; not just those covered by […]
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Avon and Wiltshire roll out controlled drug service
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust has begun installing web-based software to help manage and track the dispensing of controlled drugs. Ascribe’s Substance Misuse Service is being rolled out in two of the mental health units in the trust; West Wiltshire Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service and North Somerset SDAS, with the next […]
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PHCSG urges ‘extreme caution’ on QoF data use
White paper proposals to use Quality and Outcomes Framework data to make commissioning decisions should only be followed with extreme caution, the Primary Health Care Specialist Group (PHCSG) of the British Computer Society has warned. The PHCSG says the QoF database held on the Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) has been collected purely for […]
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Bedfordshire and Luton opt for CareNotes system
Bedfordshire and Luton Mental Health and Social Care Partnership NHS Trust has signed up to use Strand Technology’s CareNotes electronic care record solution. Lizzy Smith, from the community and mental health (CAMH) services at Bedfordshire and Luton, said: “This solution will help us continue to make the best use of new technology and will make […]
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Rant or rate?
A NHS-backed social software project is helping patients give feedback online directly to healthcare organisations, finds Fiona Barr.
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Northumbria goes outside NPfIT for PAS
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a patient administration system as a result of delays in the availability of a suitable system that meets the trust’s requirements under the NHS national programme for IT. The acute hospital trust this week placed a procurement notice in the Official Journal of the European […]
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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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Rio to be ‘interim’ mental health system in London
BT Capital Care Alliance, the Local Service Provider for London, has selected CSE Servelec’s RiO system as an interim community and mental health solution to meet the immediate needs trusts in London. The initial order will see RiO deployed at over 20 trusts across London during 2006 by BT CCA as part of the National […]
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