Europe making progress to eHospitals
A major new survey of IT use in almost 900 European hospitals, including 73 in the UK, has found that their number one priority for IT investment is in document management systems, to help manage paper medical records and as a step towards integrated electronic medical records. The research, which was carried out by Silicon […]
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UCLH goes live
UCLH is the first to go live with Carecast from IDX; what can other trusts learn from the experience? E-Health Insider speaks to chief executive Robert Naylor.
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Outside the inbox
Chris Booth, who has been working with SMS and healthcare for several years, says that text messaging can do more than reducing DNAs; it’s an effective tool for patient engagement.
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First NPfIT deployment plans released
The £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has published a summary of its deployment plans for the first time, indicating what new IT systems are intended to be deployed to NHS organisations and by when, writes Jon Hoeksma. According to the plan, which is available here, deployment of hospital administration and clinical systems will begin […]
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NAO finds Choose and Book running late
Technical problems, delays in delivering upgrades and failure to engage GPs means the roll-out of Choose and Book, the national electronic appointment booking system, is behind schedule and, at best, will only offer 60-70% availability by the end of 2005. As a result the Government target to deliver patient choice by the end of the […]
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E-booking to miss its appointment
Choose and Book, the programme for providing electronic patient appointment booking, will not deliver a fully featured system across the English NHS by December 2005, according to a letter from the Department of Health (DH) seen by E-Health Insider. Almost 15-months after the award of a five-year £64.5m contract to Schlumberger-Sema (since taken over by […]
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NHS treatment centres sign deal for PAS software
IQ Systems, which manufactures patient administration has signed a five-year software supply contract with Mercury Health, an organisation that runs a number of independent treatment units for NHS trusts. The deal, which guarantees revenues to Mercury Health of £214m, will mean that IQ Systems’ IQUtopia PAS system will be put in place in independent sector treatment centres in Sussex, Portsmouth, […]
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McKesson launches text appointment reminder service
McKesson, one of the largest existing suppliers of hospital patient administration systems, has a launched an automated text message reminder service for NHS outpatient which it claims can help save the NHS £300 million a year. The company’s new text message reminder service, provided in association with TotalCare Meditxt, is designed to help NHS Acute […]
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Getting ready for the leap forward
With the National Programme for IT now geared up for delivery, Paul Charnley, regional implementation director for the North West and West Midlands cluster, spoke to E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma…
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National Programme sets strategy for non-LSP suppliers
The majority of current NHS clinical systems in England will be replaced in the next four years, according to new guidance for existing suppliers published today by the National Programme for IT. A small number of departmental systems number will be integrated into two portfolios built around the two dominant solutions – iSOFT’s Lorenzo and […]
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