Cardiff begins roll-out of EHRs for community nurses
Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust has announced that it is rolling out an integrated electronic health record for community nursing and mental health with the intention of creating a fully integrated electronic health record. The contract with in4tek to use its PARIS system was signed in November 2004. Details of the system, which will be […]
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Version One updates document imaging with OCR
Version One has announced a new version of its document imaging software used by a number of NHS trusts that allows invoice and purchase order data to be automatically scanned by optical character recognition (OCR). The DbArchive system, which was announced on Thursday at a briefing at the House of Commons, also features image conversion […]
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Accenture’s LSP boss says delivery to ‘step up’
The managing director of Accenture’s health team has said that the pace of delivery in the North East and Eastern regions of the National Programme for IT is now set to step up a gear. Deployment of new systems and services to GPs, hospitals and mental health services by will have begun by Easter, he […]
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Electronic mental health record system goes live in Wirral
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust has just implemented an electronic patient record system from local company Strand Technology. The CareNotes system also features instant messaging between users, automatic generation of e-mails, faxes and text messages to clients, other staff members and patients themselves, and a web-based interface. This would allow, for instance, notification of […]
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First NPfIT deployment plans released
The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time, indicating what new IT systems are intended to be deployed to NHS organisations and by when, writes Jon Hoeksma. According to the plan, which is available here, deployment of hospital administration and clinical systems will begin […]
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Telemedicine recommended for rural areas
Greater use of telemedicine in country areas is one of a broad range of strategies recommended by the British Medical Association to tackle rural health problems. Citing examples from Scotland and the Falkland Islands, the report entitled Healthcare in a Rural Setting, concludes that telemedicine can give increased flexibility to healthcare service providers and allows them […]
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Joining forces
David Grigsby of LiquidLogic puts the case for the importance of IT in multi-agency working, and what problems must be overcome for successful implementation.
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Health and Social Care chief talks about year ahead
Bob Allen, interim chief executive of the new Information Centre for Health and Social Care, has spoken to E-Health Insider about the centre’s responsibilities when it comes into being as a special authority on 1 April, 2005. The centre takes over some of the role of the NHS Information Authority, which is to be disbanded […]
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NPfIT issues rebuttal of EMIS’s claims
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has stated that it is ‘concerned’ about statements made by primary care systems supplier EMIS in a bulletin to customers this week entitled ‘The truth about EMIS and the National Programme for IT’. In the response, issued today, the programme refuted EMIS’s claims it has been frozen out of the programme, […]
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Mental health data sharing installed in Cornwall
IMS MAXIMS has announced the installation of a system to enable sharing of mental health data across a number of sites in Cornwall in order to support the National Service Framework. The system, installed in November, covers 300 NHS trust staff is planned to be extended to over 1000 users in the New Year. It […]
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