CfH seeks acute trust for blood barcoding pilot
NHS Connecting for Health and the National Patient Safety Agency have announced they are looking for an acute trust to pilot IT specifications for electronic blood tracking. A small, non-teaching hospital trust is sought for the pilot, which will begin in March 2007, to evaluate the IT guidelines developed by the NPSA. The NPSA’s aim […]
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Cayton to lead summary records taskforce
Patients’ ‘tsar’ and chair of the Care Records Development Board, Harry Cayton, will lead the taskforce set up to help get the NHS Summary Care Record underway and resolve outstanding issues over its introduction, it was announced today. The taskforce membership will also include leaders from the main clinical professions and representatives from patient groups […]
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CfH accused of ‘sham’ on clinical consultation
Perhaps the most unexpected part of the Commons Public Accounts Committee hearing on the National Programme for IT this week was the appearance of two senior figures from the programme’s early days – Dr Anthony Nowlan and Professor Peter Hutton – who came back to haunt the proceedings with accusations about lack of clinical engagement. Professor Hutton, a distinguished […]
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Targetting cancer
Acute trusts are successfully developing their own software and work practices to deal with the 62-day cancer waiting times target. Daloni Carlisle looks at a few examples.
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LogicaCMG to supply armed forces with EHRs by 2010
LogicaCMG has won the £80m contract to fully supply the armed services with electronic health records by 2010, following a four year procurement process. The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) will start piloting at the end of the year and officials expect the first implementations of EHRs for military personnel and their families in […]
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Systems must be good enough to stop short cuts
New systems for the NHS must be so good that staff aren’t tempted to find ‘work arounds’ that jeopardise security, Connecting for Health primary care clinical lead, Professor Mike Pringle says. He told a conference hosted by Connecting for Health (CfH) and the NHS Alliance that he visited a practice where staff had worked around the […]
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Meet the suppliers: Healthy Software
E-Health Insider meets one GP system supplier which has adapted to the National Programme for IT by reinventing itself.
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Younger people more likely to use mobile healthcare
Younger people are more likely to call NHS Direct on their mobiles than make an appointment to see their GP, a study by Imperial College supported by Vodafone has revealed. The paper, one of several in a series of essays published by Vodafone entitled ‘The Role of Mobile Phones in Increasing Accessibility and Efficiency […]
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Ready for liftoff
The MOD is about to announce its final plans for electronic health records in the military. Jon Hoeksma looks at progress so far.
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BCS announces speaker line-up for HC2006
The British Computer Society has announced details of its speaker line-up for this year’s HC2006 health informatics conference at Harrogate, Yorkshire, 20-22 March. The focus this year will be on how health informatics is making a difference to the health service. Keynote speakers at the three day conference include Richard Granger, director general of NHS […]
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