NHS IC does deal with SAS
The NHS Information Centre has done a partnership deal with SAS for a standardised data management system and unique business analytics platform. The NHS IC says the deal will allow it to integrate, clean, manage and analyse information held on disparate systems more efficiently. It should also enable it to automate the way information is […]
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Virginia Department of Health hacked
An attack on the Virginia Department of Health Professionals (VDHP) website, resulted in a prescriptions website being hacked and a $10m ransom demand for the return of millions of allegedly stolen patient records. US press reports and blogs say the attack involved over eight million electronic patient records and some 35m prescription records. That an […]
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Slovenia rolls out e-health card
The Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia has announced that it will roll-out a new electronic health insurance card system across the country.
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Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety
The Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety was won by NHS National Services Scotland for the Emergency Care Summary. The runners up were VitalPAC at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Emis upgrades Emis Access
Primary care software supplier Emis has announced an upgrade of its online messaging system, Emis Access, which it says is now four times faster and more user friendly. The Emis Access system is used by more than 1,600 Emis practices and 150,000 patients with an average of 45,000 appointments booked online each month and 86,000 […]
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iSoft to develop medication management
iSoft has announced that it will develop its own medication management solution, which will be embedded within Lorenzo. The announcement comes after IBA, iSoft’s Australian parent company, entered into a $15m agreement to acquire Hatrix, a provider of electronic medication management solutions for acute and community healthcare providers. The company says it will use Hatrix’s expertise […]
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Audit Scotland revisits meds management
Scotland’s national audit body has urged the Scottish Government to encourage health boards to take up a national Hospital Electronic Prescribing Medicines Administration system as soon as one is available. In its latest report, Audit Scotland says the NHS in Scotland has improved the management of medicines in hospitals since it last examined the subject […]
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North Cumbria goes live with Ascribe
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has announced a multi-site go live of Ascribe’s hospital pharmacy and management systems. The trust chose Ascribe’s latest web pharmacy system in June last year. It wanted to replace its old pharmacy system, which could not provide the detailed patient medication records that it wanted for its three dispensaries […]
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Information prescriptions expanded
The Department of Health is publicising information prescriptions and has said that an information accreditation scheme should be launched later this year. Thirteen information prescriptions are now live on the NHS Choices website. These were promised in the 2006 white paper, Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, as a way of directing patients to reliable […]
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