LSPs fail ‘acid test’ on PAS deployments
Delivery of the patient administration systems due to form the foundation for future electronic patient records in NHS hospitals has stalled with only a fifth of the systems promised in June actually installed. In June NHS Connecting for Health said that 22 acute NHS trusts would get new PAS systems by the end of October. […]
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Ethnic minority electronic health library launched
A new NHS Electronic Library for Ethnicity and Health has been launched to help fill gaps in knowledge of how treatments impact on ethnic minorities. The Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health (SLEH) was created by the UK Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity Health and Diversity (CEEHD), based at Warwick Medical School and the Mary Seacole […]
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EuroKing launches Miracle in Scotland
Maternity information systems suppliers EuroKing has partnered with bms (Scotland) Ltd in a bid to get the company’s Miracle system used more widely in Scotland following a recent NHS announcement changing the way maternity scans take place in the country. Scotland’s NHS Quality Improvement Board has recommended that by 2007 every pregnant woman in Scotland should be offered […]
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Metal medicine
E-Health Insider looks at the continuing work into robotics in healthcare being carried out by Imperial College, London.
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Less than 1.5% of electronic prescriptions seamless
E-Health Insider has learned that of the 1.6m electronic prescriptions issued by the Electronic Prescription Service, just under 30,000 have been seamlessly sent and received all the way through to dispensing. Out of the 1.6m scripts created electronically by GPs, just 29,386 have then been sent over the NHS spine, received and called down by […]
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Virgin to upgrade telemedicine across fleet
Virgin Atlantic is to install telemedicine equipment on board all of its aircraft after signing a deal with British hardware company Remote Diagnostic Technologies. The system, which is designed for small spaces, will use the plane’s satellite telephone to communicate with medical professionals on the ground. The Tempus system (below), which is designed to be […]
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Choose and Book fails on air
Enthusiasts and sceptics among the GP community had their say about Choose and Book on a BBC investigation of the national e-booking system last night and one user had the embarrassing experience of taking the presenter through a booking that failed. Dr Andrew Langton a GP in Avon who has carried on using Choose and […]
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European public health portal launched
A multi-lingual pan-European Public Health Portal has been launched that will provide a gateway to simple and reliable health information on topics ranging from bio-terrorism to babies’ health, and infectious diseases to health insurance. The portal was launched last week at the EU eHealth conference in Malaga, Spain. Initially available in English only, the portal […]
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Review: Plundering the Public Sector
Michael Cross reviews David Craig’s latest book which concentrates on the role of consultants in the National Programme for IT.
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LogicaCMG to supply armed forces with EHRs by 2010
LogicaCMG has won the £80m contract to fully supply the armed services with electronic health records by 2010, following a four year procurement process. The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) will start piloting at the end of the year and officials expect the first implementations of EHRs for military personnel and their families in […]
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