Joining Up Is Hard To Do
Technology has an important role to play in the realising the ideal of “joined up” public services, but progress has been slow. SA Mathieson explores the problems and the potential. Specialist IT consultant, Stephen Howes, has encountered offices where staff have two terminals on their desks: one connected to the health network and the other […]
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HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News
Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this year. We list below a selection of the new launches, versions and deals announced at Harrogate last week. Click here for a full list of exhibitors. Telemedicine Solutions from Tandberg Tandberg demonstrated its videoconferencing solution, […]
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Torex Acquires UK Operations of IBA Health
Torex PLC has announced a strategic alliance with IBA Health Ltd, the Australian supplier of healthcare information systems. As part of the £7 million deal Torex has also acquired the UK-based Hospital Information Systems operation of IBA and InHealth Solutions. As part of the new alliance Torex is taking an 8% stake in IBA Ltd, […]
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Over 2000 Reponses For NHSIA Confidentiality Campaign
Over 2000 responses to the NHS Information Authority’s national consultation on confidentiality are being analysed and early results are expected in April. Speaking to E-Health Insider, the authority’s head of patient and citizen relations, Marlene Winfield, said 2400 responses had been received using the consultation questionnaire, along with 100 letters. Around 50% of the responses […]
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Torex Buys InHealth Solutions
Torex, the leading UK-based health software specialist, has acquired the laboratory, radiology, oncology, mental health and primary care operations of InHealth Solutions for £3.5 million in shares. The deal marks a further significant consolidation of the health IT supplier market serving the NHS and reinforces Torex’s position in both the primary and secondary care sectors. […]
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Innovative System for Enabling IT Access for Students
A London mental health trust has set up an innovative system for allowing nursing students to have access to patient records and other electronic information. Pre-registration education nurse education co-ordinator, Roger James, at South West London and St George’s NHS Mental Health Trust said it was the first among London mental health trusts to organise […]
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Civica to Implement Microsoft Enterprise Agreement
The NHS has placed an order worth £19.4 million over twelve-months with software and services firm Civica to implement the three-year Microsoft Enterprise Agreement across the NHS in England. The contract covers implementing the landmark Enterprise Agreement – a three year deal national corporate licensing between Microsoft and the NHS, originally signed back in October […]
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NHS Information Charter Needed Says Consumers Association
The NHS should publish a charter outlining how it will share health information and service users must be given a chance to isolate and control access to the most sensitive details, according to new research on public attitudes to electronic records. The research, conducted by the Consumers Association and the NHS Information Authority, found that […]
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Bristol Chooses Paris Records System
Bristol City Council, the largest unitary authority in England, has selected supplier in4tek to supply its Paris electronic record systems and IT solutions from in4tek to support Bristol’s Social Services and Health Department’s goal of delivering integrated care. The integrated records system will be introduced over the next two years, beginning with a six month pilot […]
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South Staffs Launches Community-wide Electronic Records
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with an enterprise-wide, patient information system, PiMS, which provides staff with real time patient information. Supplied by iSOFT the system provides the trusts 3,500 clinicians with access to the computerised details and clinical information of all patients within the 0.5 million local population. The PiMS patient record […]
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