Fraudster sentenced for selling old-for-new IT to NHS
The former managing director of a Yorkshire computer company has been sentenced to 180 hours community service for selling used computers to the NHS in place of new machines a trust had ordered. Gordon Rae Wallis of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, formerly managing director of Networking Solutions (UK) plc, denied obtaining a money transfer by […]
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Patients positive on ICRS but worried about security
Patients are positive about the government’s planned Integrated Care Records Service (ICRS), but cautious about security issues and unhappy about the idea of people outside a close circle of trusted NHS staff having access to their records. The findings come from extensive qualitative and quantitative research conducted by independent market rearchers for the Consumers Association […]
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UK Doctors Still ‘Out of Office’ to Patients Online
Email may be the most powerful new communications tool since the telephone. But despite its clear potential in health, the BMA remains sceptical and few British doctors have yet embraced email communications with patients. Stephen Pincock reports on why most doctors remain ‘out of office’ online. Ask the British Medical Association about its view on […]
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CSW and Oracle Demonstrate Scalability of Case Notes
CSW Health announced this week it had successfully completed initial scalability tests for its Case Notes shared electronic records system. The tests have been carried out with technology partners including Oracle. John Chelsom, managing director of CSW Health, said: “The Case Notes product is the result of over ten years research and development on XML database […]
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Tablet PC Vs PDA – The Debate Continues (Part 3)
Over the past month E-Health Insider readers have debated the relative merits of PDAs and Tablet PCs in healthcare. This week we publish two further perspectives, in a debate that appears more timely than ever with the announcement of the merger between iSoft and Torex. Which device will the new merged health IT giant be […]
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Open Source: Tablet PCs Wrong for Doctors – Steve Garrington, CEO Torex Health
Last week hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, shared his experience of testing a Tablet PC on the wards. Steve Garrington, chief executive of Torex Health, uses our Open Source column to respond and argues the case for PDAs rather than Tablet PCs for clinicians. I found Andrew Harrison’s piece on his testing of a Tablet PC […]
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City Selects Doc@Home for Remote Monitoring Trial
City University, London, is to evaluate Doc@Home, a remote online clinical data gathering and healthcare management service provided by Docobo (UK), as part of a European Union (EU)-funded trial of remote clinical monitoring for 300 patients with chronic conditions at four different sites in England, Portugal and Estonia. The work forms part of a project […]
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Two PCTs Choose Graphnet for Integrated Electronic Records
Halton primary care trust (PCT) and Warrington PCT are to develop an integrated XML-based repository of real-time patient records that will make integrated electronic patient records available to all local authorised healthcare staff. The solution, to be provided by Graphnet, will extract and integrate patient data from the different IT systems of individual GP surgeries […]
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Hammersmith & Fulham Integrate Care Electronically
Nationally, health and social services suffer from a lack of integrated IT systems. However, a few local authorities have started to innovate in linking the two, writes SA Matthieson. One is the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which has developed a Joint Electronic Transfer (Jet) extranet project, designed to allow doctors to view social services […]
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Electronic Social Care Record To Be Phased
The December 2004 target for implementing full electronic social care records (ESCR) is not achievable and the roll-out is now due to take place between 2008-2010, at the same time as the English NHS integrated care record service (ICRS), a conference heard this week. Roger Staton, head of the Social Care Information Policy Unit at […]
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