BMA leader calls for NPfIT to be scrapped
One of the leaders of the British Medical Association has described the NHS IT programme as “the worst case of planning blight across the NHS” and called for it to be ended.
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Permanente way
Kaiser Permanente is making rapid progress with electronic health records. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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St Helens gets scan-on-demand EPR
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has begun roll-out of a electronic patient record based on a scan-on-demand document management system. The new system allows relevant patient records to be scanned a few days before a patient attends an appointment. The aim is to make latest patient information available to authorised clinicians and […]
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Nicholson warns of ‘unprecedented’ savings
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned the NHS that it may need to make “unprecedented” levels of savings from 2011 to 2014. In his third annual report on the state of the health service, Nicholson says NHS investment will grow by 11% over the next and final two years of the present comprehensive spending […]
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Government’s CIO praises NHS progress
The government’s chief information officer has praised IT systems in the health sector but has highlighted the need to “drive value out of IT investments” throughout the recession. The comments come in the government’s latest Transformational Government progress report. In a year when the government spent £13.7 billion on IT, the report says the recession […]
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Politicians question major IT projects
Opposition politicians are lining up to promise to scrap major IT projects as the full scale of the coming public spending squeeze becomes apparent. But home secretary Jacqui Smith has indicated that the government plans to press ahead with plans to store communications data and make it available to the emergency services, health and other […]
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Telecare delivers savings in Scotland
Telecare in Scotland has delivered savings of more than £11m and is improving health and social care delivery and quality of life for users, according to an evaluation report. The report on Scotland’s Telecare Development Programme concludes that it has delivered savings of £11.15m in 2007-08, based on 7,902 people receiving telecare equipment. It estimates […]
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No cuts, but low growth in budget
Chancellor Alastair Darling has told the Commons that the government does not plan to “cut” its way out of recession while delivering a budget that promises low spending growth and big demands for efficiency savings from the public sector.
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Treasury targets £2.3 billion annual IT savings
The Treasury’s Operational Efficiency Programme has recommended £7.2 billion of annual efficiency savings could be achieved on government IT and back-office operations.
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 19.03.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. SpeechMagic rolled out at HCA International Nuance Communications has announced that its SpeechMagic technology is being rolled out across the private healthcare group, HCA International. With two-thirds of the roll-out complete, 96% of dictations are being […]
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