Worcestershire connect to COIN for joined-up working
All NHS sites in Worcestershire are to be connected to a single Community of Interest Network (COIN) to allow information and data to be shared almost instantly between staff at any time. The Worcestershire health community has signed a five year deal with BT, working in conjunction with Nortel and Microsoft, to create a unified […]
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The big screen
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to introduce free screening for stroke, diabetes, heart and kidney disease. Joe Fernandez looks at the IT involved.
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NHS London orders data transfer review
All deliveries of patient information in London have been halted, and the chief executive of NHS London has begun a review of data transfer arrangements after a CD containing details of 160,000 children was lost. The encrypted CD containing names addresses and dates of birth was lost in transit from BT to St Leonard’s Hospital, […]
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BT pilots N3 VoIP service in London
NHS trusts in London are being offered free connections to the N3 Local Gateway Service (LGS) as part of a major city-wide pilot. The N3 LGS provides an interface between a local telephone switch and the N3 Voice Core Services Central platform. It enables cost free telephone calls to be placed over the N3 network […]
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Main NPfIT contractors paid £1.2bn last year
Despite continued delays in many areas of the National Programme for IT,Connecting for Health paid its main contractors over £1.5bn in the past financial year.
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Integration to improve newborn testing
One of the 2 million babies to be screened since the launch of NHSP The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) will soon be able to automatically import data from screening devices into a central database, with the aid of InterSystems’ Ensemble integration platform. The NHSP has been using the eScreener Plus (eSP) system from […]
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iSoft progress with GP contracts
iSoft says it is making progress in the primary care sector, after completing its GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) contract and finalising contracts with 20 Local Health Boards (LHBs) in Wales. The company is now offering its Synergy and Premiere solutions to any English PCT through the GPSoC contract. LHBs in Wales can choose between […]
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Heart of Birmingham to be first VoIP enabled N3 site
The Heart of Birmingham PCT has become the first NHS trust to sign up to BT’s N3 hosted voice service, enabling them to make free on-net calls and cheaper calls to mobile phones. It follows BT’s announcement in July that the N3 network is now voice over internet protocol (VoIP) enabled. The enhancement means that […]
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Data centre failure left practices without SystmOne
A fault at a BT-run data centre left GP practices using TPP’s SystmOne experiencing performance problems with their system for three hours last month. EHI Primary Care understands that the failure on September 18 affected all TPP’s SystmOne users from early morning until about 11am. The problem is the second time in just over a […]
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IT underpins development of NHS Direct
NHS Direct is banking on new technology to help deliver better services and cope with record levels of demand, Joe Fernandez reports.
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