Cerner and Fujitsu deliver first South implementation
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first hospital in the South of England to go live with an electronic patient records system from Cerner, implemented by Fujitsu, under the NHS National Programme for IT. The initial implementation comes almost two years after Fujitsu was first awarded an £896 million local service provider (LSP) […]
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Choose and Book passes 50,000 mark
More than 6,000 appointments a week are now being made through Choose and Book with the total number of bookings now over 52,000, Jane Cummings, the national director for C&B, has revealed. Speaking at a conference organised by the Health Service Journal, Ms Cummings said this was a marked improvement on July when just 100 […]
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Common exception reporting standards called for
Exception reporting rates for the Quality and Outcomes Framework need to be subject to uniform standards to ensure as many patients as possible benefit from the framework, a GP has argued this week in the British Medical Journal. Dr Stephen Corcoran, a GP in north London, says in his letter that variations in exception reporting […]
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Lessons for NPfIT from ‘wild ride’ to US failure
A study of the ‘wild ride’ towards a failed implementation of a new electronic medical record system found a ‘transient climate of conflict’ associated with the adoption of the new way of working. The qualitative study, reported in the British Medical Journal, was completed during an implementation by Kaiser Permanente, the US’ largest non-profit healthcare […]
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QFLU will keep tabs on flu cases
Hundreds of GPs across Britain have signed up to contribute daily reports on flu cases to a new database that will help the government to plan for medical care and vaccine supplies this winter. As the Department of Health launched its annual campaign to encourage take up of free flu vaccinations for eligible groups, GP […]
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CfH approaches 2,000th deployment
Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of the beginning of September. The figure represents an increase of over 800 deployments since the beginning of August, reaching a grand total of 1,864. However, a closer reading of the figures reveals that almost all […]
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Doctors.net.uk launches pharma marketing arm
Doctors.net.uk has announced the launch of MedeConnect, a new division that will provide the electronic marketing and market research services for pharma clients on behalf by the online doctor’s portal and email service. MedeConnect will focus entirely on providing services to pharmaceutical customers. Services will include communication with doctors and market research of individual doctor’s […]
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New QMAS software will focus on excluded patients
Changes to the payments software for the Quality and Outcomes Framework mean practices and primary care trusts will be able to check exception reporting details on the system from this autumn. Connecting for Health has announced changes to the functionality of the Quality Management and Analysis System (QMAS) including the addition of exception reporting information. […]
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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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Pharmacy system accredited for ETP
A patient medication record software for pharmacies, eclipsePMR, has successfully completed testing for electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) and will begin its first installation next week. Michele Hulme, commercial director of Hadley Healthcare, said: "We have just passed the sandpit test. The next stage from that is putting the system live." The practice and the pharmacy, […]
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