Madrid’s iSoft incident reporting wins prize
iSoft Spain’s incident reporting system due to be rolled out to seven Madrid hospitals has been awarded the prestigious Spanish “Professor Barea” prize. The iSoft developed and installed Incidences Management System (IMS) is set to be completed early next month as part of a €300,000 project to ensure all incidents in the hospitals are reported. […]
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One in ten EPS pharmacies scanning all barcodes
Only 11% of pharmacies enabled for the Electronic Prescription Service are scanning every barcode prescription with problems including slow download speeds, the barcodes themselves being too faint to scan and slow log-in times, according to a survey. A total of 365 pharmacies took part in a survey, carried out jointly by the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating […]
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Southampton to deploy 18-week reporting system
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust is to deploy a new 18-week wait, data warehouse and patient level costing system from Ardentia, in a bid to meet targets and monitor costs. The trust will use Ardentia’s Pathway Manager in order to meet national 18-week reporting requirements and manage patient pathways from initial GP referral to acute […]
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Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?
GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they have been known to date.
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Integrated children’s system failed to prove itself
The Integrated Children’s System, the electronic case record system for social care, has failed to prove itself fit for purpose according to an independent evaluation commissioned by the government but never published. Completed in May 2007, the report from the University of York states that the evaluation “raises serious reservations about the design and use […]
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Europe-wide project to detect drug reactions
QResearch, the not-for-profit research partnership between EMIS and the University of Nottingham, is supporting a new European-wide initiative, the ALERT project, to detect adverse drug reactions (ADRs) faster. The project will involve a consortium of 18 leading European research institutions using clinical data from the electronic healthcare records (EHRs) of over 30m patients from European […]
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NHS Direct reports lower calls, higher web traffic
NHS Direct has reported a fall in telephone calls received, attributed to an increased usage of its website for health information and advice. Though full figures are yet to be disclosed, the service has issued initial figures showing that on a month-by-month basis, caller numbers are down approximately 7% on 2006, with around 400,000 calls […]
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Report advises annual QoF negotiation
The National Audit Office has advised the Department of Health to renegotiate the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) every year and allocate a percentage of QoF points for local negotiation. In a 57 page report on the new contractual arrangements for GPs, NHS Pay Modernisation: New Contracts for General Practice Services in England, the NAO […]
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PbR held back by NHS data failures
A new report into the progress of Payment by Results (PbR) has concluded that problems with the quality and timeliness of data remain significant barriers to the policy having more impact on NHS activity and efficiency. The Audit Commission report, The Right Result,singles out the Secondary Uses Service (SUS), developed by NHS Connecting for Health and […]
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Countdown to the 18 week wait
By December 2008 all non-urgent NHS patients should start their hospital treatment within 18 weeks of referral, a major challenge with IT at the heart of providing the solutions.
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