Fujitsu picks McKesson for Child Health
McKesson has been selected by Fujitsu to provide its CarePlus child health software to NHS trusts across the South of England under the NHS IT modernisation programme. Fujitsu is the prime contractor – or local service provider (LSP) – for the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the South, responsible for upgrading NHS […]
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Remote storage secures data despite floods
Many GP practices in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have been able to keep electronic patient data safe from the recent severe floods in the region, thanks to local service provider Computer Science Corporation’s (CSC) remote data storage policy. Since Monday, torrential rain across northern England has resulted in severe floods, with towns remaining submerged in water. […]
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TPP gets accredited for GP2GP record transfers
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced that it has been accredited by Connecting for Health to send and receive patient records between TPP practices as part of the GP2GP record transfer project. The company says CfH has confirmed that its SystmOne product meets the safety standards required of internal GP2GP transfers. Almost a million […]
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The end of the beginning?
Are we at the end of the beginning of NHS IT modernisation? Jon Hoeksma tests Churchill’s famous quote against the evidence.
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CSC highlights benefits of ‘horizontal integration’
Local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has opened up the possibility of integrating healthcare systems across education and social services. CSC’s director of primary care Leigh Donoghue told a conference organised by primary care software TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) that CSC saw the potential to be gained from integrating health systems with local authority […]
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Shared records aid cuts in outpatient visits
Electronic consultations by secondary care clinicians with access to shared care records can save up to 70% of outpatient appointments, a conference heard this week. Dr Richard Pope, consultant diabetologist and medical director at Airedale NHS Trust, told a conference run by primary care IT supplier TPP that e-consultations had the potential to transform care, […]
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Hopes for GP2GP completion by end of 2008
Connecting for Health hopes to rollout its GP2GP record transfer project to every practice in England by the end of next year, according to GP representatives. The British Medical Association’s General Practitioner Committee told local medical committees this week that the current plan is for every practice in England to be able to send and […]
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TPP develops text messaging service
Primary care and community healthcare IT providers, TPP, have introduced text messaging to work alongside their flagship SystmOne solution. The solution has been piloted by Holycroft Surgery, a GP surgery in Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust which was also the first GP practice to use SystmOne. Using the text messaging addition, the surgery can send […]
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500th practice goes live with SystmOne GP system
StowHealth Centre has become the 500th practice to go live with the SystmOne integrated GP record system provided by TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) and delivered by the CSC Alliance for NHS Connecting for Health. The new GP system, which provides a shared GP clinical record, will support the delivery of care for the 15,500 […]
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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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