TPP to add Numed Capture to SystmOne
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced plans to integrate an image capture device into its software SystmOne. TPP and Numed, suppliers of diagnostic and patient monitoring devices, integrated Numed’s Biolog 3000i ECG device into SystmOne earlier this year and now plans to add Numed Capture. Numed Capture is a specially designed auto-focus camera with […]
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Scottish GPs call for GP system choice
GP representatives in Scotland will this week hear criticism of government plans for an integrated primary and community care system and calls for Scottish GPs to have an initiative to guarantee IT system choice. The Scottish Local Medical Committees’ conference will debate a motion criticising the Scottish Government’s plan to procure an Integrated Primary and […]
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Does Lorenzo mean the end of GP electronic patient records?
GP Mary Hawking asks whether the introduction of shared electronic records marks the end of GP electronic records as they have been known to date.
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CSC plans to integrate SystmOne into Lorenzo
Local service provider CSC is planning to integrate TPP’s SystmOne with the strategic software Lorenzo,currently being developed by iSoft. The LSP for the North, Midlands and East region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has already released details of its plans to deploy Lorenzo in four phases between 2008 and 2012, creating a […]
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Phase two EPS accreditation due within months
The first pharmacy and GP system suppliers expect to receive technical accreditation for release two of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) in April and May this year, according to Connecting for Health (CfH). The IT agency has published the status of GP and pharmacy systems currently progressing through the compliance process for release two of […]
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Moving to hosted systems
Disagreement over extended access could impact the speed of movement to hosted systems. Fiona Barr reports.
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CfH tells PCT it can’t mandate LSP solution
Connecting for Health has prevented a PCT from insisting that GP practices signed up to GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) must eventually move to a local service provider solution. North Yorkshire and York PCT told practices that signing up to GPSoC meant they were committing themselves to migrate to the fully integrated LSP solution when […]
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N Yorks GPs protest over system choice
GPs claim their PCT is acting outside the GP Systems of Choice initiative by outlining a plan to encourage all practices to move onto the local service provider solution TPP’s SystmOne. North Yorkshire and York PCT ‘s IM&T strategy states that the introduction of SystmOne will be “actively promoted and supported by the PCT” giving […]
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TPP used to support Bradford research project
The Born in Bradford project – a large study that will track the progress of more than 10,000 babies from pregnancy to adulthood – is to use data recorded on TPP SystmOne GP systems. Born in Bradford is thought to be the world’s biggest study of children’s health ever to be undertaken. Parents-to-be are invited […]
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Lorenzo plan unlikely before year end
Alternative delivery plans – codenamed Penfield – developed by Computer Sciences Corporation for delivery of the next generation Lorenzo clinical software for three-fifths of the English NHS are unlikely to be completed before the end of the year. One of the NHS chief information officers taking a lead on the Lorenzo Penfield plan has told […]
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