Helix Health links up with Quicksilva
Irish health IT system supplier Helix Health has announced that it has linked up with Quicksilva to achieve compliance with release two of the Electronic Prescription Service in England. Healthcare systems and services specialist Quicksilva is to supply Helix Health with its Compliance-in-a-box consultancy service, Spine Gateway managed service and Spine-in-a-box test harness. Quicksilva said […]
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Heart of England connects with Quicksilva
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has signed a deal with Quicksilva to enable it to get direct access to the NHS data Spine and its services. Quicksilva will provide the trust with its Compliance-in-a-Box consultancy service, Spine Gateway managed service and Spine-in-a-Box test harness. These will enable it to complete the NHS Connecting for […]
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SCR patient consultation could be cut
The length of the patient information programme run before Summary Care Records are uploaded to the Spine could be cut by up to 50% if NHS Connecting for Health plans are agreed.
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NHS Alliance promotes patient records
The NHS Alliance is promoting real-time access to medical records, claiming this will help meet the drive towards patient self-management as well as saving the NHS money. The Alliance says there is evidence to show that record sharing improves relationships between clinicians and patients as well as improving efficiency and the safety and accuracy of […]
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Royal Free evaluates Cerner fixes
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust is evaluating the results of the three month rescue programme to fix known problems in its Cerner Millennium system. Trust board papers state that on 6 October, BT, the local service provider for London, together with the London Programme for IT and the trust, began a 90-day programme of […]
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Making a Detailed Care Record a reality
Tony Megaw, head of primary care IT for NHS Yorkshire and the Humber, tells Fiona Barr how a primary care Detailed Care Record has been delivered.
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New demographics services for Wales
Informing Healthcare is to roll-out its own demographics services from this month after sharing systems with England for more than two decades. The first phase of the Welsh Demographic Services, developed by Informing Healthcare in collaboration with Health Solutions Wales, will deliver online patient tracing, batch tracing and an application programming interface to provide links […]
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This is the year to come
Royal Free says Cerner creates duplicate x-ray risk
Patients at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust are potentially at risk of having duplicate x-rays ordered and receiving double exposure, following the introduction of a new Cerner electronic record system.
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iSoft system links EPS to SCR consent
A GP has claimed that iSoft’s Synergy system requires practices to get patients to give consent for their data to be uploaded to the Summary Care Record before they can use the Electronic Prescription Service. Dr Paul Cundy, a GP in Wimbledon and former chair of the joint IT committee of the British Medical Association […]
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