Bridgeforward and Quicksilva partner on integration
Software providers BridgeForward and Quicksilva have announced a partnership to focus on integrated connectivity solutions for healthcare. BridgeForward Software, a specialist in application integration and data migration software in healthcare will partner with Quicksilva Software Solutions, which supplies spine connectivity solutions and services to the healthcare industry, will partner on integration solutions. Under the partnership, each […]
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GPs and their families urged to boycott NHS ‘spine’
GP representatives are advising GPs and their families to consider withdrawing themselves from the NHS spine “as an example to the nation” because of concerns about the confidentiality of demographic data. Last week’s local medical committees’ conference voted in favour of a proposal to advise GPs to consider withdrawing from the spine after hearing about […]
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Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT
NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the investments needed to make it work. He also asserted said that the £6.2 billion investment programme will remain a top priority, irrespective of the financial crisis facing some parts of the health service. The upbeat […]
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US health IT tsar rejects ‘Google’ style record sharing
The idea of a creating a virtual network that keeps health data in its original store and shares information via a ‘Google-type’ search is not on the horizon at the moment, according to the leader of US’ electronic medical records programme, Dr David Brailer. Speaking at a press briefing at the HIMSS (Health Information Management […]
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NHS CfH says spine now fixed
NHS Connecting for Health, the DH agency responsible for delivery of the NHS National Programme for IT, has issued a briefing note stating that service levels have been restored to normal following service reliability and availability problems with the NHS spine over recent weeks. According to CfH briefing note a normal service has been operating […]
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Choose and Book’s problems continue
Technical problems caused the national Choose and Book service to be unavailable for most of Tuesday 3 January, the day that Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced that patient choice was now a reality across the NHS. The embarrassing technical failure – which resulted in the service being unavailable for most of the day – was […]
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UCLH plays smart with cards
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) has become one of the first big hospital trusts in England to begin using smart cards in conjunction with an electronic patient records system. UCLH is using the cards to provide staff with quick, secure and easy access to its new electronic patient record system – Carecast […]
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Arresting ideas
Clinicians who work in police custody in four counties in south-east England are being supported by a new software suite, E-Health Insider reports.
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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS
Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient administration system (PAS) connected to the national NHS spine. The implementation marks a genuine milestone for Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT); BT, NPfIT’s prime contractor for London; and […]
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ETP potential
EHI talks to Tim Donohoe, group director at Connecting for Health, about the development of the national electronic prescribing service.
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