Italy develops chronic disease tools
The Italian health service is aiming to make use of its IT to create an integrated tool to improve care for people with chronic conditions, a Ministry of Health official has announced. The ministry’s general director for information systems, Walter Bergamaschi told the recent World Health Congress in Barcelona that elderly people required a different mix […]
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SNOMED sold to new standards organisation
The intellectual property rights of SNOMED Clinical Terms have been sold for $7.8m (£3.6m) to a newly-formed board called the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, based in Denmark. The IHSTDO is made up of nine nations – Australia, Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, The Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom with Connecting […]
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OECD countries need ehealth to reform
The vision of eHealth records being accessible in different European Union countries and beyond is now being looked at by many different countries, according to the OECD’s Martine Durand. Speaking at the recent Berlin E-health conference she said "All OECD countries are facing challenges meeting the pressures in their healthcare systems. They are all struggling with questions […]
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iSoft director says NPfIT systems ‘interchangeable’
Nick Harte, product management commercial director at iSoft (pictured right), says the systems being delivered into the five clusters of the English NHS National Programme are all “interchangeable”, thanks to Connecting for Health’s decision to adopt a Service Orientated Architecture based around the spine services. Harte, who led the development of iSoft’s Lorenzo product, said that this […]
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Nine companies in GP systems beauty parade
Nine companies including one newcomer to the market presented their GP IT systems to GP and primary care trust representatives as part of the GP Systems of Choice procurement process last week. The beauty parade of GP IT suppliers, including the eight existing suppliers plus one company developing a new system, took place over two […]
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Cayton says legacy systems could have offered more
England’s NHS National Programme for Information Technology will lead to better patient care but greater emphasis on building on existing systems could potentially have delivered results faster and cheaper, according to the Department of Health’s national director for patients and the public, Harry Cayton. The patients’ ‘tsar’ who is also chair of the Care Record […]
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Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’
Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final stages of being drawn up by Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider understands that the supplier catalogue plans being drawn up may cover […]
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Readv3 systems non-compliant with GP2GP ‘for some time’
Three GP IT systems used by more than 600 GP practices in England are incompatible with current activity in the Connecting for Health’s GP2GP record transfer project because of the version of Read codes used in the systems. TPP, Healthy Software and Seetec Enterprise all use Read code version 3 compared to version 2 used by […]
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OJEU notice signals start of GP systems procurement
Procurement for GP Systems of Choice will begin this week and be complete in three months’ time, finally delivering the right to IT system choice enshrined in the 2003 GMS contract, NHS Connecting for Health has announced. CfH has received approval from the Treasury to proceed with the procurement and a notice has today been […]
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CSC delivers seven new systems in North East and East
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it deployed seven new IT systems to GP practices and healthcare community settings, in the first two weeks of taking over responsibility as local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North East and East of England. Rotherham Primary Care Trust in South Yorkshire has gone […]
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