NHS launches cancer toolkit
The NHS has formally launched a Cancer Commissioning Toolkit to help local NHS managers to develop better cancer-fighting strategies based on national standards and data. Until recently, data on the effective use of cancer drugs, treatments and waiting times has been held in 15 competing databases and often in paper format. The toolkit is a […]
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CfH aims for 4 million HealthSpace users by 2014
NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by 2014. The ambitious target is understood to form part of the business case for HealthSpace, for which Treasury funding is being sought. Development plans for the patient portal are still awaiting Treasury approval. HealthSpace has […]
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Bulgaria launches electronic records
Bulgaria has launched a national health portal as the entry point to its first electronic health records. The portal, developed by InterComponentWare (ICW), will give state administration employees access to a modern, electronic version of the paper-based Personal Ambulatory Book that is used to keep track of medical appointments. The Electronic Personal Ambulatory Book has been […]
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Follow my leader
In the latest feature from NHS Connecting for Health, Dr Raj Kumar and Dr Andrew Coley discuss the NHS Clinical Leaders Network.
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Information at heart of NHS Constitution
Providing information to support choice is a “major priority” for the health service, according to the new NHS Constitution for England. A handbook published to support the constitution, which was launched at a “historic signing ceremony” at Downing Street yesterday, highlights a number of areas in which IT and information services will be developed to […]
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OLPC has potential for health
Computers provided to children in developing countries as part of the One Laptop One Child initiative could also be used to deliver health education and healthcare, according to a new report. Researchers from the National Library of Medicine in the US looked at how the laptops could be used in medical settings and concluded that […]
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NHS anti-obesity drive goes online
The government has kicked off 2009 with the launch of a three-year anti-obesity initiative with a high profile multi-channel advertising campaign that will span TV, print, billboards and the Internet. Launched on Friday the campaign, called ‘Change4Life’, begins with £8m worth of television advertisements and a range of initiatives to get people to eat better […]
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Sheffield rationalises printing with Xerox
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a £6m agreement with Xerox, which will take control of its printing processes. The trust is one of the largest in the country and has more than 3,200 output devices for printing, faxing, copying and scanning. Xerox analysed the trust’s usage of these devices and found that […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 18.12.2008
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round covers system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Data Transfer Service contract negotiations complete NHS Connecting for Health has announced that it has completed contract negotiations for the ongoing provision of the Data Transfer Service with BT. Existing contractual arrangements ended in […]
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iSoft announces new products at Medica
iSoft has launched two integrated care systems for the German market, based on the company’s new Lorenzo software.
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