Heart of England pilot community access to maternity records
Community midwives from the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are to begin using their EuroKing E3 maternity information system outside of the hospital in a bid to reduce the high perinatal mortality rate in the region. The pilot will go live at the end of this month. All community midwives will be able to […]
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MPs say EPRs essential but delivery in doubt
Electronic patient record systems are vital to the future of healthcare in England, but there remain big questions and concerns…
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Wanless warns NPfIT risking NHS modernisation
In a review of NHS modernisation efforts Sir Derek Wanless has criticised the slow progress of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) and called for an audit of the programme to ensure it supports wider health service modernisation. The report warns that considerable challenges lie ahead in modernising NHS IT systems and says there is "continuing […]
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60 Seconds Interview: Rich Mills
In the latest 60 second interview focusing on the people behind making NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez quizzes Rich Mills, IT operations manager at Devon Primary Care Trust.
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N3 now VoIP-enabled, BT announces
BT has announced that the N3 network has now been enhanced to carry phone calls using voice over internet protocol technology (VoIP). The enhancement means that NHS trusts will now be able to make free IP phone calls using the N3 Local Gateway Service. N3’s head of marketing, Michael Cole, told EHI: “From day one, […]
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BT opts for Blue Coat to accelerate net content on N3
Secure content and application delivery specialists, Blue Coat Systems, have been selected to provide their proxy platform appliances to accelerate internet content to the N3 broadband network, maintained by BT. The company has been deploying new proxy platform appliances with BT for the last six to nine months to accelerate content to the millions of […]
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Community staff in Nottingham trial wireless record access
Community-based health professionals in Nottingham have taken part in a successful three month mobile technology trial, using wireless broadband-enabled laptops from Dell to access and update patient records on the move. The trial enabled staff to remotely access and update electronic patient records from the SystmOne primary and community care system supplied by TPP. The […]
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BT encourages trusts to use its conferencing service
Working across the UK health sector BT is helping to save millions of pounds each year as more and more trust sign up to conferencing solutions, which will further be enhanced by Video Conferencing soon to be available over the Health Service network. BT Conferencing is BT’s specialist service for the delivery of robust, reliable […]
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BT Health MD: we need some acutes under our belt
BT Health managing director, Patrick O’Connell, has told E-Health Insider that the pressure is mounting to deliver new systems to acute trusts in London if the company is to solidify its position as a local service provider to the NHS in the capital under the National Programme for IT. In an exclusive interview published in […]
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BT’s big mission
In an exclusive interview BT Health’s managing director Patrick O’Connell updates EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how BT is progressing on its three NPfIT contracts.
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