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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Mobile Mental Health EPR a European First
Mental Health services are rarely seen as being on the glamorous side of information technology in healthcare but a groundbreaking Dutch project has shown the benefits of providing mental health professionals with the very latest in mobile technology. Backed by the specialist Robert Fleury hospital in The Hague, a project to develop mobile electronic patient […]
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Government Urged to be Patient on Patient Records
The Government should accept that the 2005 target for electronic patient records will be missed and not be panicked into a national big bang approach that could have disastrous consequences for the health service, leading IT suppliers have warned. Having already accepted that the 2002 target for 35% of NHS trusts to have level three […]
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“Millstone of History” Holds Back UK E-Health
The UK health service is still struggling to adopt the information technology and business practices that will drag it out of the industrial era of hospital factories and into the information age model of virtual, patient-centric healthcare. But why is the health service apparently unable to get to grips with proven technologies that became commonplace […]
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