New Portal Opens Doors to ECDL
A new web portal for NHS staff offering basic skills training in IT and preparation for the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) will go live on March 21. The NHS Information Authority says the new portal, at http://www.ecdl.nhs.uk , will provide staff who need to improve their IT skills with a range of resources including […]
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Row Over Health Records Review Secrecy
Campaigners this week alleged that the Department of Health (DH) had broken undertakings to keep fees low for patient access to manual health records and had further worsened the situation by conducting a review of health records and data protection in secret. The DH issued a defence against some reports of the row, but conceded […]
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National IT Programme Looks For Additional Expert Resources
Wanted: expert hands and heads to get the National IT Programme rolling asap. Director General of IT, Richard Granger, has issued an OJEC notice to recruit “additional expert programme management resources” for the delivery of NHS National Programme for IT, as set out in ‘Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS’. With the contract […]
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Civica to Implement Microsoft Enterprise Agreement
The NHS has placed an order worth £19.4 million over twelve-months with software and services firm Civica to implement the three-year Microsoft Enterprise Agreement across the NHS in England. The contract covers implementing the landmark Enterprise Agreement – a three year deal national corporate licensing between Microsoft and the NHS, originally signed back in October […]
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AAFP Explores Open-Source EHR
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is considering developing and selling low-cost "open-source" electronic medical records (EMR) software to provide its members with access to low-cost electronic record systems. According to a report in American Medical News, published by the American Medical Association, the AAFP will submit a business plan to its board on […]
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Two Key Contracts Awarded to Consultants
Two vital contracts, covering technical and IT standards, and management of the National Information Programme, have been awarded to external consultancy firms who are not specialists in healthcare IT. ASE Consulting and computer services firm Xansa have been awarded a contract by the National Programme Office to establish a new ‘design authority’ for the National […]
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DH Places Advert for Prime Contractors
The UK Department of Health has published an advert in the Official Journal of the European Commission (OJEC) for prime contractors to deliver the National Implementation Programme for the national NHS IT programme: Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS. The advert, which was placed just ahead of Christmas, guaranteed that many would-be prime […]
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The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You (part 2)
Last week, E-Health Insider published a round-up of comments from readers on the apparent new hard line on suppliers being adopted by NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger –The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You. Since then your emails have continued to roll in. One reader emailed to ask about our readership: "Has anyone […]
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10 Ways To Improve NHS IT – a Hospital Doctor’s View
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, worked in IT before studying medicine. His unusual background prompted E-Health Insider to ask him to list the top 10 improvements he would like to see in healthcare IT. Read on for the result… Until the age of 29 I was a computer programmer working in the City. Then I decided […]
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Microsoft and MSN Launch Public Services Channel
Microsoft Ltd and MSN have announced the launch of the online Public Services Channel offering access to online government and healthcare services for its monthly 11.2 million users. The new online channel, which went live on December 7, can be accessed through the MSN home page http://www.msn.co.uk and provides online access to health information and details […]
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