Electronic mental health record system goes live in Wirral
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust has just implemented an electronic patient record system from local company Strand Technology. The CareNotes system also features instant messaging between users, automatic generation of e-mails, faxes and text messages to clients, other staff members and patients themselves, and a web-based interface. This would allow, for instance, notification of […]
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PR heavyweight appointed to sell NHS CRS
The NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT) has appointed communications consultancy giant Porter Novelli, part of the global marketing conglomerate Omnicom, to help deliver staff and public information campaigns about the NHS Care Records Service (CRS). Porter Novelli, one of the top seven PR agencies internationally, will help to deliver public information campaigns about […]
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Wirral tenders for new patient care system
A trust that pioneered the use of IT in the NHS is tendering for a new patient care information system because its 15-year-old software will not last until a replacement arrives from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). An OJEU advertisement issued by Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust says that implementation is planned to start in […]
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N3 plans unclear after shake up of aggregation boards
The future of the regional bodies charged with aggregating public sector broadband purchasing, including that of the NHS, has been thrown into uncertainty after the DTI announced it will cease funding the National Aggregation Board. According to the DTI, Regional Development Agencies are to decide whether or not to continue funding regional allocation boards (RABs), […]
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Gartner awarded market intelligence contract
The National Programme for IT has awarded a one-year £154,000 contract to IT analysts Gartner to provide it with market intelligence services. The deal follows the award of a £117,000 contract to Ovum for ‘supplier relations’ services in July. According to NPfIT the market intelligence to be supplied by Gartner will help it monitor the […]
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Granger promises to make PACS ‘deployable’
A promise to deliver at least 50% cuts in the pricing of Picture Archiving and Storage Systems (PACS) and make it a “deployable technology” came from NHS IT Director General Richard Granger in his address to Healthcare Computing 2004. Local Service Providers (LSPs) are due to submit their latest proposals on how they would deliver Picture […]
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Portsmouth pioneers reverse e-auction for generic drugs
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust claimed an e-health first this week with an announcement that it had completed the UK’s first reverse online pharmaceutical supplies auction. A reverse auction works, as the name suggests, in the opposite way to a conventional auction in which prices start low and bidders increase their offers. In Portsmouth’s reverse auction […]
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South Manchester Chooses InFocus Health
In Focus Health Ltd has won the contract tender to supply South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust with its web-based clinical performance reporting and benchmarking system. InFocus Health will supply South Manchester with its HiPPO 21 system. Installation is due to begin immediately with the system due to be rolled out to 250 users across […]
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Online Recruitment Plan for NHS in England
Details of the long-delayed project to put NHS jobs in England online have emerged from the Department of Health (DH). A pilot electronic recruitment service is due in summer 2003 and a full-roll out is expected in late 2003 or early 2004. Sites for NHS jobs in Wales and Scotland are already up and running […]
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Digital TV Service Goes To Tender
A national healthcare digital television (DTV) service took a step nearer to becoming a reality this week with the issue of an advertisement inviting expressions of interest from suitable suppliers. The advertisement published in the press and as an OJEC notice sets a deadline of 22 May for submissions. The tender document accompanying the invitation […]
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