The NHS and the IT Industry: Over to You
Last week, E-Health Insider asked for responses to the new NHS IT Director General, Richard Granger’s reported advice to suppliers that they should desist from rocking the boat or publicly questioning the national programme – or else. Never before has a single topic generated such a lively response from our readers. Here are some extracts […]
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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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Show Power To Deliver, Granger Tells Suppliers
NHS IT Tsar Richard Granger pledged this week that a new procurement strategy will be published in January 2003 and gave some heavy hints about the new direction for IT procurement that would be used to deliver the NHS IT programme. Speaking to suppliers at a forum in London he promised that the new procurement […]
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Data Grid Announced for UK Mammography Research
IBM, Oxford University and the U.K. government have announced plans to build a distributed computing network, or next generation ‘data grid’, to share and store mammograms among health care providers and researchers The aim is to enable early screening and diagnosis of breast cancer, and to allow medical professionals to collaborate and share information that […]
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Green Light for New Shared Services Authority
The NHS Shared Services Initiative, which is responsible for shared NHS financial services, the finance and e-commerce project and the development of the electronic staff record, has received approval to establish itself as a special health authority. The new authority will come into being in April 2003. The announcement about the change of status says […]
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New Zealand Launches Online Register of Doctors
The New Zealand Medical Council has launched an online register of doctors that enables members of the public to freely check the details of 10,000 doctors. The register contains details of each doctor’s qualifications and any restrictions on their practice. The register also confirms whether a doctor holds a practising certificate, and the type and date […]
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Growing Interest in EPR Systems Around Europe
Increasing interest in electronic patient record systems is found in a new study of European healthcare IT vendors by consultants, Frost & Sullivan. The attraction lies in the ease with which EPR systems can be devised using existing technologies, but the report’s author, Chris Cherrington, points to a significant problem. "While hospitals and healthcare standards […]
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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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IT Strategy – You Have Your Say
E-Health Insider’s request for fantasy IT strategies for the NHS struck a chord with many of you who sent in a range of suggestions over the course of the week. A common theme was the feeling that any new IT strategy must have a strong thread of cultural change and people management, and that a […]
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Scotland Invests in Joined up Health and Social Care
The Scottish Executive announced last week that it will invest in developing data sharing and common data standards to help provide joined up health and social care as part of a £30 million programme of investment in e-government projects. The funding will be used to support the development of smartcards, data sharing, data standards and […]
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