iSoft chosen as partner by SingHealth
iSoft has announced that it has been chosen as a partner by SingHealth to provide health IT solutions to help deliver healthcare reform in Singapore. The decision follows SingHealth’s award of a contract earlier this year for iSoft to deliver its Lorenzo clinical system. The new agreement will create a development partnership between between iSoft […]
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The ‘magic glue’
EHI speaks to Beverly Malone, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, about the importance of raising awareness of IT change in the nursing profession.
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Nurses support IT reform – but lack information
Nurses remain supportive of NHS IT developments and rising numbers feel better informed about them – but the majority still say they have inadequate information or no information at all. This latest snapshot of nurses’ views comes from an online survey by Nursix conducted earlier this year among 1776 Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members. […]
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Welsh health IT prepares for delivery
The Welsh NHS IT reform programme, Informing Healthcare (IHC), has just released its National Case document and formally set up a series of Service Improvement Projects to start the process of implementing electronic health records in a number of key areas. The projects will focus on the areas of chronic disease management, unified assessment and […]
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RCN Congress calls for nurse IT involvement
Nurses need training and guidance to use new IT systems within the NHS or they risk being left on the sidelines, delegates at this week’s Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress in Harrogate have argued. Graeme Elrick, chair of the RCN Information Nursing group, said that it was important that nurses control how IT delivers care […]
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NPfIT clinical leads to attend HC2005
The British Computer Society Health Informatics Forum (BCSHIF) have announced two new sessions at next week’s Healthcare Computing 2005 (HC2005) conference in Harrogate where delegates will have the opportunity to meet that National Programme for IT’s clinical leads. The two sessions will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. The leads will also be joining the […]
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Welsh hospital trust looks to merge patient records
Pontypridd & Rhondda NHS Trust has installed a system that allows patient details to be stored on a central server, transferred between departments and synchronised automatically when they change. The MultiVue system from VisionWare, which runs on a Microsoft BizTalk Server, links the pathology, radiology and critical care clinical information systems with the PAS. According […]
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PACS installed across rural Welsh NHS Trust
North West Wales NHS Trust is to implement LifeImaging PACS software from Ferrania across its nine hospitals, many of which fall in rural areas. According to Ferrania, the filmless system will have particular benefits for the trust as it will save them money and time transporting copies of files between sites, as well as cutting […]
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Scottish NHS IT reform spend inefficient, says Microsoft
Microsoft’s outgoing director for Scotland and new sales director for Europe, Gordon McKenzie, has spoken out against progress so far in Scottish health IT reform, calling current systems inefficient and fractured. “NHS Scotland is still operating in a piecemeal way,” he told Scotland . “Royal Bank of Scotland has 100,000 employees and one IT system. […]
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Health and Social Care chief talks about year ahead
Bob Allen, interim chief executive of the new Information Centre for Health and Social Care, has spoken to E-Health Insider about the centre’s responsibilities when it comes into being as a special authority on 1 April, 2005. The centre takes over some of the role of the NHS Information Authority, which is to be disbanded […]
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