Graphnet consortia completes ITK tests
The discharge summary target Graphnet has announced that its consortium of IT suppliers has successfully completed proof of concept witness testing for NHS Connecting for Health’s standards for electronic discharge summaries. The standards have been developed as part of CfH’s Interoperability Toolkit and were published in January, with the aim of completing proof of concept projects […]
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It’s cold out there
Malcolm Newbury of IHE UK says it’s time to break out of Groundhog Day and find a new way of doing interoperability in the post NPfIT world.
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One Health Alliance launched
A new ‘best of breed’ healthcare IT alliance has been launched, saying it will deliver technology and information solutions to both public and private healthcare organisations. The One Health Alliance has eight member companies covering; procurement management, network infrastructure, clinical IT and workflow consulting, electronic patient records clinical information systems, document and workflow solutions, business […]
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GPs see the sun go down on dawn2
Six GP practices have become the first NHS early adopter sites for the new public sector network in Wales. The Public Sector Broadband Aggregation (PSBA) network will provide a single communications and information network for all areas of public service, including local government, health, education and the emergency services. The health sector is the first […]
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Barts and The London deny CRS crash report
Barts and The London NHS Trust has denied reports in a tabloid newspaper alleging their new Cerner Millennium system crashed on its first day of operation. The project is the largest hospital go-live yet under the £12.4bn NHS IT programme. The Sun newspaper yesterday reported the new “computer scheme crashed on launch day…forcing doctors at […]
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda
Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in the recovering US city of New Orleans, Neil Versel writes. An Accenture study released at the start of last week’s meeting suggested that two-thirds of Americans consider electronic health […]
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Kent hospital’s server hits the headlines
A hospital IT department’s firm action on unauthorised material loaded by staff onto their PCs has landed it in a national newspaper. A server crash at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate, Kent, required repairs and reloading of data. IT staff noticed the exercise was taking longer than it should and realised several […]
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Kodak chosen for Finnish e-health project
Eastman Kodak’s Health Group has been selected as the main supplier of Finland’s RATU e-health project, which aims to integrate the medical imaging and information systems across five Finnish hospital districts. The €2.7m RATU project focuses on the development of e-health in Northern Finland and is funded by five hospital districts and the Finnish Ministry […]
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US government awards EHR pilot contracts
The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC, IBM and Northrop Grumman to develop four pilot health information infrastructures across twelve locations in ten states, and then release the designs into the public domain. The four groups, the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) consortia, will […]
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Log on for a late night librarian
A project that gives health professionals late-night access to librarians’expertise by using an instant messaging (IM) link between the UK and Australia has won a prestigious International Information Industry Award. ‘Chasing the Sun’, a partnership between South West Information for Clinican Effectiveness (SWICE) and South Australian Health Services Libraries’ Consortium (SAHSLC), allows clinicians in one country […]
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