Granger says ‘consultation’ led to records delays
Richard Granger, the director general of IT for the NHS today (26 April) told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that he blames the two year delay in delivery the electronic patient record system at the heart of the NHS IT programme on ‘consultations’ taking longer than anticipated He said: “Some aspects have been delayed by […]
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PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South
All NHS hospital trusts across London and the South of England have now received systems to enable them to capture and store digital diagnostic images as part of the health service IT modernisation programme. NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for NHS IT, yesterday confirmed to E-Health insider that 56 digital picture archiving and […]
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SCR opt-out sets ‘onerous’ conditions, says GP
Patients who want to opt-out from having a Summary Care Record will have to apply for exemption under section 10 of the Data Protection Act, on the grounds that it will cause them ‘substantial damage or distress’, according to new GP guidance. Dr Paul Cundy, chairman of the General Practitioners Committee Information Technology subcommittee, told […]
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Sunderland uses e-SAP to unite health and social care data
Sunderland Teaching Primary Care Trust has rolled out a new electronic Single Assessment Process system from Liquidlogic in an effort to standardise the assessment process for adult care across the Sunderland Health and Social Care Community. e-SAP has been rolled out in partnership with City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and Sunderland City Council and […]
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EMIS becomes first GP supplier to commit to CUI
Primary care systems supplier EMIS is to become the first major clinical software vendor to the health service to incorporate elements of the new NHS Common User Interface (CUI), developed by Microsoft on behalf of Connecting for Health, into its software. EMIS revealed to EHI Primary Care last week that it will incorporate components of […]
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Privacy GP calls records opt out pledge a ‘decoy’
A GP who has campaigned for patients to secure an opt-out from the NHS Care Records Service (NCRS) is claiming that current plans will still put confidential patient information at risk. Dr Paul Thornton has written a 12 page report which claims the government’s pledge of an opt out right from the Summary Care Record […]
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Summary care records planned for end of 2008
Connecting for Health is planning for every patient in England to have a complete Summary Care Record by the end of 2008. Guidance prepared by CfH for strategic health authorities makes it clear that the Clinical Summary Record will be implemented in two phases. Phase one, due to begin by Easter, will consist of an […]
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Medical Tablet PC launched by Intel
Intel, Motion Computing and NHS Connecting for Health have announced the launch of a new mobile computing device, designed from the ground up for use by clinicians in hospital and community environments. The Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) is lightweight rugged tablet PC with a built in carrying handle designed to withstand the knocks and spills […]
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Read code will trigger care record opt-out
The Read code 93C3 will be used as one way of identifying patients who do not wish to have a summary care record written to the NHS Spine, the Summary Care Record Advisory Group has agreed. The group, which met for the first time last week, accepted a recommendation from Connecting for Health (CfH) that […]
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Call to use Spine to find drug trial patients
The BioIndustry Association has expressed an interest in tapping into the NHS’s Spine database and using patient information to identify potentially willing drug test subjects. Speaking to the Scotsman, the association’s chief executive, Aisling Burnand said: “The UK has a real opportunity because the NHS’s patient records make this a unique place in the world […]
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