Salford Council adopt new loan management software
Salford City Council’s integrated community equipment service (ICES) has chosen Ethitec’s ELMS2 software to manage all the wheelchair and equipment loans made in the trust. ICES is a DH-funded initiative across health and social care to develop community equipment services in England, remove unnecessary barriers for users and modernise services. The mission of the ICES […]
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N3 Internet gateway fails across NHS
Users of the NHS broadband network across England were left unable to access the internet for about two hours on Tuesday due to a problem with the internet gateway. The failure left NHS users unable to access the web-based version of Choose and Book or web-based clinical knowledge sources. The fault is believed to have […]
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Information Centre to centralise social care records
The Information Centre is working towards producing a new information system for adult social care records, called the Adult Social Care Information Development Programme (ASCID). The aim of the programme is to make patient records of elderly patients more person-centred and flexible. The Information Centre is carrying out a major review of social care information […]
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E-Health Insider wins technology journalism award
E-Health Insider’s editor and co-founder, Jon Hoeksma, was named Technology Journalist of Year in the 2006 techMark Awards last night. The award was given for Jon’s coverage of the troubles of healthcare IT supplier, iSoft. Other journalists shortlisted were: Paul Durman, Sunday Times; Jo Moulds, Daily Telegraph; Andrew Murray Watson, Independent on Sunday and Phil […]
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Birmingham PCT extends electronic incident reporting
Birmingham East and North PCT has contracted with risk management systems developers Vantage Technologies to implement its web-based Sentinel reporting software. Sentinel is a risk management tool which has enabled Birmingham East and North (BEN) PCT to record and manage incidents more effectively and conveniently, and also provides the data for analysis to help identify incident […]
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Guidance on exception reporting published
The publication of exception reporting data for the Quality and Outcomes Framework will reveal total numbers of patients excepted for each indicator but not the reasons behind the decisions. In new guidance on exception reporting NHS Employers and the British Medical Association say the software used to calculate practices’ performance in the QoF, such as […]
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EMIS Web to be rolled out to 1,000 practices
GP computer supplier EMIS is to roll out the next generation of its primary care software, EMIS Web, to 1,000 practices from this month. The company says EMIS Web will provide a common clinical record that can be shared by GPs and community healthcare teams with data accessible anywhere via the web-based application. The aim […]
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High scores on QoF, but wait for exception reporting
Almost one in ten GP practices earned maximum points from last year’s Quality and Outcomes Framework according to data published today. Statistics released by the Information Centre show that GPs increased their average performance in the second year of the QoF by nearly 5% with the average practice earning 1011 points out of the possible […]
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iSoft goes live with results reporting in Ireland
iSoft have announced that it is rolling out its iPM results reporting module across all sites in the Bon Secours private hospital group in Ireland following a successful six-month pilot. The pilot of the browser-based results access system took place across five wards in the 343-bed Cork site. Previously, test results were distributed twice daily […]
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TPP reaches 200 deployments under Accenture
A significant milestone has been reached in the deployment of National Programme for IT systems to GP practices in the North-east and Eastern clusters. Local service provider Accenture and systems supplier TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) announced this week that they had completed its two hundredth deployment of SystmOne GP. There are now 430 GPs live using […]
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