NHS to Introduce Own Gateway Reviews
The Department of Health is to introduce its own Gateway Review process to examine major NHS IT and building projects, modelled on the Gateway Review mechanism developed by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC). E-Health Insider understands that the new arrangement, expected to be announced at Public Sector Expo this week, is a compromise, under […]
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NHS Counter Fraud Services Partner With SAS
Health Minister Lord Hunt has announced a partnership between the NHS Counter Fraud Service (NHS CFS) and business intelligence software company SAS in a move designed to provide a much greater capacity to target fraud in the NHS. The value, duration and terms of the partnership deal between NHS CFS and SAS were not disclosed […]
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Kaiser Permanente Aims for E-Health within Three Years
Kaiser Permanente, the second biggest integrated health delivery organisation in the US, has announced that it will invest $1.8 billion in advanced ICT systems including electronic medical records, electronic appointment booking, electronic prescription refills and referral requests. The programme represents one of the largest and most ambitious implementations of electronic medical records yet seen, in […]
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GP Poll Shows High Awareness of Broadband
81% of English GPs claim awareness of broadband, but they are less knowledgeable about its applications and sceptical about its power to improve the patient’s experience of the NHS, according to an NOP Poll. NOP interviewed 101 GPs in mid-December 2002 using the GPnet omnibus research panel. Asked to rate the importance of broadband benefits […]
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CSW Builds HRI Prototype
CSW Health has announced that it has developed a Health Records Infrastructure (HRI) prototype for South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust in support of the NHS Information Authority’s development of a national HRI infrastructure. Currently undergoing final testing the new system, which provides an index of all records held on an individual patient in local clinical […]
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e-Lock Secures UK Drug Database Samples
Samples in the UK’s leading comprehensive drug identification database are kept secure by E-lock, rather than old style locks and keys. The database, kept at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, contains 17,000 samples of tablets and capsules ranging from illicit drugs to herbal remedies and even confectionery that may be mistaken for drugs. Sound […]
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by other partners in the local health economy. Called the Joint Clinical Information System project, the project is being run by three project partners – Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the […]
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CHI’s Reminders on Caldicott and Confidentiality
A browse through recent clinical governance reviews from the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) reveals that many trusts are being told to bring their compliance with Caldicott principles on patient-identifiable information up to scratch. With the exception of a few beacons of good practice, the reviews point to lapses of confidentiality and a widespread lack […]
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Suppliers Told Details of IT Strategy Imminent
A unique meeting held in London last week saw over 200 leading NHS IT suppliers, and would be suppliers, gather to hear details of how the NHS plans to deliver the new NHS IT strategy. Many left with more questions than when they arrived. Describing the objective Sir John Pattison, DH Director of research, analysis […]
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Oxford Clinical Intranet Links Local NHS
The potential of networked local NHS communities is being demonstrated in Oxfordshire by the Oxford Clinical Intranet, which uses easy-to-use Internet technology to make test results electronically available to GPs. Where in the past getting test results depended on doctors making time-consuming phone calls or awaiting paper results by mail, the new system — developed […]
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