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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Primary care to complete NPfIT by 2010
Primary care will have delivered most of its part of the National Programme for IT by 2010, according to Connecting for Health’s joint GP clinical lead Professor Mike Pringle. Prof Pringle told a conference organised by IT system supplier TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) that NPfIT’s vision for primary care was on track while most of […]
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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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Agreement reached on CHIA replacement
Ten London primary care trusts using BT’s troubled interim child health system have agreed to move to CSE-Servelec’s RiO solution for child health, on condition BT meets a series of risk mitigation requirements by August. The decision means that some of the PCTs may have to continue using the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) for […]
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Exercising Choice
When Connecting for Health appointed its GP clinical leads two years ago, there were three big issues on the primary care IT agenda: consent and confidentiality, Choose and Book and systems choice.
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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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