OpenEHR Foundation launches international standard
An open-source community founded in University College London has produced the first blueprint of an international electronic record standard that they hope will be used as a standard by software developers. The OpenEHR foundation, a not-for-profit company founded in 2003 by staff at University College London and Australian company Ocean Informatics, released the blueprint earlier […]
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Missing link
Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH will have to make for its success.
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Rio to be ‘interim’ mental health system in London
BT Capital Care Alliance, the Local Service Provider for London, has selected CSE Servelec’s RiO system as an interim community and mental health solution to meet the immediate needs trusts in London. The initial order will see RiO deployed at over 20 trusts across London during 2006 by BT CCA as part of the National […]
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Lorenzo CRS solution delayed until late 2007
The delivery of the strategic Care Record Service solution in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been confirmed as running badly late and subject to "significant delays" until at least late 2007. As a result, strategic health authorities in the area are now developing "delay mitigation plans" based on interim use of existing systems […]
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’
A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS trusts working on paper for a week after a disaster was ‘not acceptable’. Sunil Patel, development director of Accenture, LSP for the North east and Eastern regions of England, was referring to the disaster at […]
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Choose and Book target now March 2007
The target date for the implementation of Choose and Book has been moved back again, this time to March 2007. Margaret Edwards, director of access at the Department of Health, has written to strategic health authority and primary care trust chief executives this week to set out the latest targets on the Choose and Book […]
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‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution
Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic next-generation clinical system for another two or three years. E-Health Insider has learned that since late December in the North East, Eastern and North West and West Midlands regions, NHS Connecting for Health has stopped […]
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ePEX accredited for Choose and Book
Ascribe has announced that it has achieved Choose and Book accreditation for its ePEX patient administration system, which is installed in 25% of PCTs in the UK. The ePEX PAS has been designed with primary and community care in mind, with modules that support mental health, learning disabilities, child health and elderly services. The Choose […]
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Enfield PCT selects EMIS for super surgery
A North London primary care trust (PCT) has awarded primary care systems supplier EMIS a contract to supply the PCS system for a new £6.2 million ‘super-surgery’ due to open in Enfield, North London, this year. The system will be used by four GP practices with a combined patient list of 18,300. They will move into the integrated […]
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C+B certificate granted for MedWay PAS
Healthcare systems and solutions specialists, System C, has achieved Choose and Book compliance certification from NHS Connecting for Health for its MedWay patient administration system (PAS). System C says this means hospitals using MedWay will be able to publish appointment slots electronically to the central Choose and Book system and, in turn, it will be possible to book […]
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