London to roll-out eRedbook
A handful of London trusts are about to start trialling the eRedbook child health record, ahead of a capital-wide roll-out.
Digital Patient
Ade Memoire: ID, log-in, do stuff
Adrian Byrne, the IT director of University Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, considers the latest developments in patient access to records; and the key factors for success.
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An Epic journey
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is three years on from signing its landmark deal with HP and Epic – and eight months on from going live with the electronic patient record. Thomas Meek reports.
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My kind of thing
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust won the last EHI Award for the ‘best use of technology to share information with patients and carers’ for its myhealth@QEHB portal. Paul Curran finds out why.
Digital Patient
Link consumer tech to health IT – Newton
More interoperability is needed between consumer health technology and NHS systems, Public Health England’s chief innovation officer John Newton has argued.
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Microsoft to quit HIS market
Microsoft is to stop selling its Amalga Hospital Information System to new customers, the company will also cease development of the Amalga HIS product family.
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Health Space launched in Canada
Candian telecoms firm Telus has announced the availability of Telus Health Space, it’s personal health records service based on Microsoft’s HealthVault platform.
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Records pledge in Conservative manifesto
The general election The Conservative election manifesto has reiterated the Tories’ pledge to give patients online control of their own health records. No details are given of how this will be achieved; leaving open the possibility that a Conservative government might look beyond the NHS’s own HealthSpace to more eye-catching deals with Google or Microsoft. […]
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EHE interview: Harald Deutsch
Sarah Bruce talks to CSC’s vice president, EMEA, healthcare, about the future of healthcare IT on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Microsoft unveils CDM project
Coverage from HIMSS10 Microsoft and the Cleveland Clinic yesterday announced the results of a chronic disease management project for patients with hypertension, diabetes and heart failure. The one year project prescribed patients monitoring devices linked to personal health records and the hospital’s electronic medical record. It found that by doing this it was possible to better […]
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