Swine Flu tracking on Qsurveillance
Healthcare IT system supplier EMIS is encouraging its GPs practices to sign up to its primary care tracking database QSurveillance to help provide national and local information on swine flu. EMIS said the QSurveillance database is already providing information on 23m patients from 3500 GP practices and that the level of detail provided in reports […]
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Nottingham PCT rolls out IP communications
Nottingham Primary Care trust has rolled out a modern communications network to cover the city centre, county and surrounding districts. The PCT issued a tender for a technology refresh in January 2007, indicating that it wanted to develop its infrastructure to meet emerging business needs and take advantage of new technologies. The ability to network […]
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Alarm raised over Integrated Children’s System
The government’s IT solution for children’s services could put at risk the children it is designed to help, according to researchers. A study to be published early next year in the British Journal for Social Work claims the Integrated Children’s System has the potential to undermine good social work practice. Academics from the universities of […]
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DH publishes EPS release two statutory directions
The Department of Health has published statutory directions for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service, which it hopes will start to go live in early 2009. The directions mean GP practices in the 17 early adopter PCTs can use the business processes introduced in release two including issuing prescriptions with electronic signatures, electronic cancellation […]
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60 Second Interview: Nigel Beasley
The latest 60 second interview features Nigel Beasley, the national clinical lead for hospital doctors at NHS Connecting for Health.
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Chasing a chimera
Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for all radiological images.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 06.06.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 06 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Barts and the London School uses TurningPoint interactive assessments Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has announced that it has chosen Turning Technologies interactive assessment tool, […]
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Nottingham to implement Cisco medical network
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a multi-million pound agreement to deploy a Cisco Medical-Grade Network to help it reduce costs, improve access to healthcare information, and provide patients with services faster and more efficiently. According to Cisco, once completed it will be one of the UK’s most advanced end-to-end Cisco Medical-Grade Networks supporting […]
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New clinical lead expresses support for SCR
Personal experience convinced a new national clinical lead (NCL) for Connecting for Health that electronic records were an important future development. Dr Joe McDonald, 46, a consultant at South of Tyne and Wearside, who will be the new NCL for mental health, explained: “Two weeks before our wedding, I got a telephone call from an […]
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Concern about USB sticks used for handovers
The security of data stored on USB sticks has been called into question following the theft of a stick containing unprotected confidential patient details at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. Around a third of junior doctors currently use universal serial bus (USB) sticks as a means of saving and storing patient data, to pass on […]
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