100 polyclinics to shake-up London
NHS London has set out a five year strategy for overhauling healthcare in the capital that includes plans to move care out of hospitals, open more than 100 polyclinics, and make greater use of email and telephone consultations. IT is at the heart of many of the plans outlined in the newly-published First Stage Report on the capital’s strategic […]
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RiO to be integrated with EMIS and INPS
Community and mental health system supplier CSE Healthcare Systems has announced that its RiO system is to be integrated with the primary care systems provided by EMIS and INPS.
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NHS Oldham cuts power and carbon costs
NHS Oldham has announced that it expects to save £41,000 from its annual energy costs thanks to energy efficient IT solutions installed at its flagship integrated care centre.
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London PCTs pilot polysystem IT
Two London primary care trusts have been chosen to work on a pilot project looking at interoperability in polyclinics.
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Lord Darzi quits government
Lord Darzi is to resign as a health minister but to retain a role as a government advisor. Downing Street said he wanted to give up his ministerial duties to spend more time "on his clinical role and academic research". Lord Darzi was one of a number of non-politicians brought into government by Gordon Brown […]
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Adastra wins London polyclinic contract
Out-of-hours software provider Adastra has announced that it has been selected to provide patient registration, management and tracking for a London polyclinic. The Waltham Forest, Oliver Road Polyclinic is one of five polyclinics opening in the capital and will offer care to registered and non-registered patients from 8am to 8pm, 365 days a year. The […]
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Tower Hamlets drops RiO for EMIS Web
A London primary care trust has opted out of NHS Connecting for Health plans to install the community and child health system RiO, deciding instead to use EMIS Web across primary and community care. The move by NHS Tower Hamlets means the PCT is breaking away from the London Programme for IT’s ‘best of breed’ solution for […]
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World wide EMIS Web
EMIS is not backward about coming forward with its next generation system, EMIS Web. Fiona Barr reports.
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Wandsworth abandons Cerner plans
NHS Wandsworth has abandoned plans to install Cerner Millennium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. The primary care trust said the change to its IT plans was due to repeated delays and concerns about security as well as the unsuitability of Millennium for federated Polyclinic models […]
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ACS buys hosting and outsourcing firm
Advanced Computer Software, the owners of out of-hours software provider Adastra, has bought a hosting and outsourcing firm to accelerate its roll-out of hosted software services.
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