Orion develop document tracking software
Orion Health are building a new document tracking solution for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to help keep track of over seven million paper records across the trust’s 15 sites. The trust needed a new portal solution to help them to improve access and filing for patient paper notes, which were becoming more […]
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Hewitt launches ‘Choose and Book’ librarians
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has launched ten ‘choice’ library pilots. Librarians in the pilots will be trained to help people find and make sense of information about different healthcare providers and "choose and book" their hospital appointment. A DH spokesperson told EHI that the librarians would help people better understand the choices available to them, but would […]
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Starting gun fired for Summary Care Record roll-out
The government’s ambitious plan for a national system of electronic summary care patient records (SCR) will begin trials tomorrow at two GP practices in Bolton, in the north-west of England. Approximately 14,500 patients will have a summary of the GP record, containing details of name, address, medication history, serious illnesses and allergies, uploaded to a […]
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda
Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in the recovering US city of New Orleans, Neil Versel writes. An Accenture study released at the start of last week’s meeting suggested that two-thirds of Americans consider electronic health […]
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Kodak announces mammography archive partnership
Kodak has announced a partnership with the US-based National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) to create new solutions enabling hospitals to better manage, archive and process images and information related to mammography screening. The aim of the collaboration is to “support the European mammography market’s transition from analog imaging to digital imaging and information technology.” The […]
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Opt-out consent model to be kept for SCR
The government is to stick to its plan that patients must opt-out of the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS), although some patients will now get the chance to view their record online before information is uploaded for sharing. The decision appears to have won the backing of the British Medical Association and the Royal College […]
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Healthcare Commission’s website opens up all NHS data
The Healthcare Commission is today launching a website to give NHS patients and the public access to its entire database on NHS trusts. The website accompanies the launch of the Commission’s annual health check results in which all of the 570 NHS trusts in England will be rated on their quality of services and the […]
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IM+T DES participation check advised
Primary care trusts are being advised to contact all GP practices to check if they intend to take part in the IM+T directed enhanced service as an information portal for the DES is launched. Primis+, the primary care data quality service, is hosting the portal as part of its commission from NHS Connecting for Health […]
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Complete Microsoft’s survey and help the NSPCC
Microsoft is developing a web portal dedicated to IT professionals working within the NHS. To ensure that they develop a site that best meets your needs they would like to hear from E-Health Insider readers through an online survey. For every 100 complete responses, Microsoft will donate £250 to the NSPCC. You can access the survey […]
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European public health portal launched
A multi-lingual pan-European Public Health Portal has been launched that will provide a gateway to simple and reliable health information on topics ranging from bio-terrorism to babies’ health, and infectious diseases to health insurance. The portal was launched last week at the EU eHealth conference in Malaga, Spain. Initially available in English only, the portal […]
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