Hunt spells out local ownership moves
Health minister, Lord Hunt, who was responsible for setting up the National Programme for IT, has defended its strongly centralised initial approach but made plain that the future lies with local ownership. Speaking to the opening session of the Healthcare Computing 2007 conference in Harrogate, Lord Hunt, back at the Department of Health after a […]
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EMIS becomes first GP supplier to commit to CUI
Primary care systems supplier EMIS is to become the first major clinical software vendor to the health service to incorporate elements of the new NHS Common User Interface (CUI), developed by Microsoft on behalf of Connecting for Health, into its software. EMIS revealed to EHI Primary Care last week that it will incorporate components of […]
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BMA sits on critical Choose and Book survey results
The British Medical Association has decided not to publish its own survey of Choose and Book which is highly critical of the e-booking system. A copy of the survey has, however, been obtained by EHI Primary Care. At the beginning of February BMA chairman Mr James Johnson promised the survey would be published “shortly” but […]
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“It’s not about politics – it’s about patients”
In the concluding part of E-Health Insider’s exclusive interview with the chairman of the BMA, James Johnson, he tells us why political motivation is damaging Healthcare IT. Joe Fernandez reports.
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New post-Shipman information guidelines issued
The government has released new guidelines on the use of information to ensure NHS organisations have systems and processes in place to protect patient safety. The guidelines form part of the Safeguarding Patients report, released yesterday in response to the fifth Shipman inquiry report, initially released in December 2004. This week’s report also takes into account […]
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DH embraces wireless safety technologies
A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by health minister Lord Hunt. The Department of Health believes that auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) technology has the potential to tackle mismatching errors in particular, as well as bringing other efficiencies and cost savings. Lord […]
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BMA chair says smart card policy ‘preposterous’
Connecting for Health’s policy of requiring doctors to repeatedly log-in with a smart card every time they use a computer system has been described as ‘preposterous’, by the chairman of the British Medical Association. Speaking exclusively to E-Health Insider Mr Johnson said: “The idea that we have to log in and out of each terminal […]
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Initiate first to achieve new HL7 compliance level
Initiate Systems, a specialist in master data management solutions has announced it has become the only vendor to have achieved Health Level 7 Version 3 (HL7 V3) for Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) Manager and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) Manager interoperability standards. It demonstrated compliance with the interoperability standards at the Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE) […]
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Lord Hunt returns as NHS IT minister
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath is back at the Department of Health and will be taking ministerial responsibility again for NHS information technology after a gap of nearly four years. He replaces Lord Warner who retired last month saying that he wished to spend less time with his ministerial red despatch boxes. Lord Hunt will […]
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iPod access to health records launched in US
New software called HealthFrame 2.1 has been launched in the US allowing patients to access their personal health records using an iPod. HealthFrame is described as a software system designed to permanently record, organise and help users, and those to whom they permit access, to understand their personal health more easily and completely. Suppliers, Records for Living […]
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