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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GP2GP milestone reached
More than 5,000 GP practices are now using GP2GP software to transfer electronic records, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. The latest uptake figures for the CfH project cover practices using EMIS LV and INPS Vision 3 clinical systems, the only two GP systems currently accredited for GP2GP. CfH said that reaching 5,000 GP practices […]
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MPs urge DH to report security breaches
MPs want the Department of Health to provide more information on data security breaches in the NHS and to set out clearly the sanctions that staff face for breaking data security rules. The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee made its recommendations as part of its second report on the National Programme for IT in […]
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PAC gives NPfIT six months to deliver CRS
The National Programme for IT in the NHS should be given six months to get effective care record systems into acute trusts, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has concluded.
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Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients
More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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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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Ex-IDX boss is new Oasis chief executive
Oasis Medical Solutions, the independent UK healthcare IT specialist, has appointed Chris Spence as its new chief executive. Spence joins Oasis from GE Healthcare, where he was responsible for the international strategy of its Enterprise Solutions business. He has a 15-year track record in health IT, and was previously head of operations for IDX Corporation […]
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CfH proposes training accreditation scheme
NHS Connecting for Health is asking NHS IT training departments to complete an online questionnaire to support the business case for an NHS accreditation scheme for IT training departments. CfH says it has been asked by strategic health authorities and other local NHS organisations to provide a voluntary, nationally funded accreditation scheme. The IT agency […]
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IT templates for long term care plans
GPs and primary care staff will be expected to offer personalised care plans to almost 15m people living with a long term condition by 2010, according to latest guidance. An IT template, currently being piloted in Yorkshire for patients with diabetes, will be made available across England by the National Programme for IT in the […]
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Fuji Film acquires Russian subsidiary
Fuji Film Corporation has acquired its Russian distributor of medical and imaging products. The acquisition, carried out through its European local corporation, Fuji Film Europe GmbH, will see the company buy Fuji Film-RU (herefater, Fujifilm Russia), a Russian independent distributor of its medical and imaging products, from Marubeni Corporation. The deal establishes a direct sale […]
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