RiO upgrades suspended in London
Moves to upgrade NHS organisations in London to the latest NHS Spine-connected version of the RiO community and mental health system have been suspended after a series of performance problems.
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Oxford chooses Imprivata OneSign
Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust has announced it has chosen Imprivata OneSign to provide a single sign-up solution, enabling staff to use just one password to access multiple systems. The single sign-on will help staff access patient information more quickly and securely. Previously, staff have had to manage up to five passwords to access different applications, […]
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Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign
Tower Hamlets has become the latest primary care trust to use Imprivata OneSign. The single sign-on solution is being rolled out to provide 600 of the trust’s staff with secure access to applications including clinical systems and NHSmail. OneSign is more conventionally used in acute trusts, but it is already being used by other PCTs […]
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Police to get access to national child database
Police are to be given access to the Government’s new children’s database, in order to search for evidence of criminal activity.
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Spine problems force trusts to switch off CRS
Trusts across England were forced to switch off their connection to the Personal Demographics Service, after a weekend upgrade led to the system suffering from ‘intermittent problems’ leading some to stop using their electronic record systems. The weekend upgrade, called Spine release 2008-A, was a major upgrade to the Spine PDS service. The PDS is […]
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Ex-CfH CTO’s firm earns £46.3m from NPfIT
An IT consultant who worked as Chief Technology Officer of NHS Connecting for Health for three years is also the senior partner of an IT consultancy firm – ASE Consulting – that has so far earned over £46m from the NHS IT Programme in consultancy fees. E-Health Insider has learned that Alan Duncan McNeil, who […]
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NHS Direct to connect to Spine in 2008
NHS Direct is aiming to connect to the NHS Spine in 2008, in what should be a key step towards integrating the telephone and online advice service with the wider NHS. In an exclusive interview with E-health Insider, NHS Direct’s new chief executive Matt Tee said, “I’m hoping that we will connect to the Spine in […]
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Spine to be shut for two day ‘refresh’
Connecting for Health (CfH) and BT have confirmed that the NHS Spine will be unavailable when it is taken down for a major upgrade from next Friday evening until Sunday morning (9-11 November). The Department of Health agency describes the refresh of software and hardware as ‘unusual’ and ‘unlikely’ to occur again in the future. A […]
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HealthSpace opening up to ‘advanced’ users
Registration has started for ‘advanced accounts’ offering patients the opportunity to view their Summary Care Records on HealthSpace, the NHS online personal health register. The service has opened up in tandem with the launch of the first Summary Care Records (SCRs). Nearly 50,000 of the summaries drawn from GP records in participating practices in Bolton […]
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Summary Care Record launched in Bolton
The first 48,500 summaries of patient records have been uploaded to the NHS Spine and out-of-hours staff in the Bolton pilot area will start using them over the next few weeks.
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