ComMedica Unveils Web-Based Patient Record
ComMedica, a spinout company from London University’s Imperial College of Science and Technology, this week formally unveiled its Patient Record Library System (PiRiLiS) at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Windsor. The web-based system is being used for pathology and radiology records initially and is receiving enthusiastic support from consultant users who can gain remote access to […]
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Pathology Messaging Upgrade for Torex Users
GP practices using Torex Health solutions are to receive a software upgrade which will enable them to receive encrypted pathology results from their local NHS laboratory. Torex announced this week that it has negotiated a bulk discount with the NHS Information Authority to fund the upgrades, so the 2,000 or so individual practices using the […]
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GP Pathology Messaging Contracts Under Negotiation
A central procurement process has started to ensure that GPs have the right software to handle online pathology reports and results, the NHS Information Authority announced this week. The roll out of online pathology messaging is due to be completed by the target date of December 2002. The service – the first national system to […]
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PCTs Told to Freeze IT Procurement Plans
Primary Care Trusts have been told to put their plans for integrated primary and community electronic patient records on hold while new national plans for IM&T strategy are drawn up. A new wave of Primary Care Trusts and strategic health authorities was created on 1 April, when health authorities were abolished replaced by 302 Primary […]
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Can EPRs Save Time? Yes, But…
Tentative evidence that electronic patient records can save time has emerged from a survey of users at Poole Hospital, Dorset – but the hospital’s head of IT counsels caution in interpreting the results, especially in terms of cash savings. The survey’s findings presented to the Graphnet Users Group by Poole’s head of IT, Andy Hadley, […]
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Path Links Contract Awarded to iSOFT
Path Links, the pioneering integrated pathology programme in Greater Lincolnshire, has placed the largest ever UK contract for Pathology Laboratory Information Management Systems with iSOFT for its APEX system. Money for the multi-million pound contract has come from the government’s pathology modernisation fund. APEX will be rolled out as one complete integrated system serving five […]
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GPs Get Connected to NHSDirect
Patients registered with a group of practices in South West London have become some of the first to benefit from encrypted clinical messaging to link together out of hours services, NHS Direct and GP practices. The new system enables a record of the details of an NHS Direct out of hours consultation to be securely […]
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Electronic Prescriptions Project Schedule Under Threat
One of the key figures behind the development of electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) in the UK has publicly questioned whether the Department of Health (DH) can achieve its target of rolling out ETP nationally by 2006. Ewan Davis, chairman of PharMed, which is leading the Transcript consortium — one of three approved ETP pilots […]
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Misys Wins its Biggest Health IT Contract
UK IT firm Misys plc has signed its largest ever healthcare contract – in a deal to supply an enterprise-wide laboratory information system to Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS), the second largest public health system in the United States. With an initial value of $17.7 million, the contract will see Misys Healthcare […]
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Smart Specimen Bag Launched
A new version of the humble pathology specimen bag that can integrate test request information with the electronic patient record is being piloted at NHS hospitals around the country. Speci-Sak II, made by MailmateSPS, is a plain specimen request form with a bag attached which goes through a specially adapted laser printer. Information recorded on […]
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