Information Guidance on Shifting the Balance of Power
Guidance on maintaining or improving information flows and structures during the NHS’s Shifting the Balance of Power programme has been published by the Department of Health. Part of a steady flow of guidance from the DH aimed at smoothing the transition in April to the new NHS structure of strategic health authorities and primary care/hospital […]
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Fife Signs up for Oasis
Fife Acute Hospitals Trust has awarded a 15-year contract for electronic patient records (EPR) to Siemens Healthcare who will be provide the Oasis EPR system supplied by its British healthcare systems strategic partners Elan Technologies. Oasis will be delivered in the form of e-oasis, Elan’s browser-based EPR that has been designed to simplify the collection […]
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CHI Reports Emphasise Need to Align Strategy and Operations
Three new reports by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) provide a series of snapshots of how NHS trusts are tackling IM&T modernisation and harnessing information to support clinical governance. Common themes that emerge from the reports include: data quality problems, ensuring clinician involvement, aligning strategy and developments at the operational level, and implementation of […]
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New Special HA Planned to Run Shared Services
A new special health authority is planned for the end of 2002 to run the NHS Shared Services Initiative, it was announced today. The initiative, which was launched in October 1999, is responsible for large scale projects which use advanced technology to provide shared, non-core services across the NHS. The aim is to run functions […]
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NAO Praises NHS Direct Implementation
The first national evaluation of NHS Direct, the flagship NHS nurse-led telephone health advice service, concludes that the service has been a success and praises the way the project has been managed and the key IT system procured and implemented. The telephone advice service, which uses a national clinical decision support system, is redirecting up […]
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DH Wants Board-Level Information Leads in New SHAs
The Department of Health has signalled that it wants to see information management and technology represented at the highest levels in the new NHS strategic health authorities (SHAs). Director of research, analysis and information, Sir John Pattison, told the NHS Information Authority’s annual conference that health minister Lord Hunt was “very keen to establish IM&T […]
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