That was the year that was…
Speakers announced for 2008 HL7 UK conference
Speakers at the sixth annual HL7 UK Conference will include a strong supplier and international line-up. They include Matthew Swindells, the author of the NHS Informatics Review and now head of Tribal Health and international speakers who are due to speak come from Holland and Canada. Industry speakers will include individuals from BT, Cerner, CSC, INPS and […]
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Keogh outlines priorities for new head of IT
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has stepped down as the Department of Health’s interim director general for informatics and handed over to new chief information officer for health, Christine Connelly. But the architect of surgical outcome reporting in the UK has pledged he will remain involved in NHS informatics. Sir Bruce and Connelly were […]
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SUS public consultation launched
NHS Connecting for Health has launched a public consultation on the wider use of patient information held in the Secondary Uses Service that is being created as part of the NHS Care Records Service. The 12-week consultation run by Tribal Consulting will collect patient views on who should have access to data, what purposes it […]
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Prof Sir Bruce Keogh interim DH IT director general
Sir Professor Keogh, the Department of Health’s medical director, is to become the department’s interim director general of informatics. He will take over from Matthew Swindells, the current DH director general of informatics, who has announced earlier this month he is to join consultants Tribal Group at the end of his current secondment. Swindells, who […]
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Swindells to urge NHS IT pros to play part
The departing Department of Health CIO Matthew Swindells is expected to use his keynote speech at Healthcare Computing today to call on IT professionals to ‘play their part’ to help deliver the change underway in the NHS. Swindells is the keynote for the HC2008 conference on Monday, 21 April, where he will call for greater IT involvement […]
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PCT commissioning data and IT suppliers named
Suppliers offering expertise in data analysis and IT solutions to support commissioning are included in the 14 organisations chosen by the Department of Health to provide PCTs with support. The DH last week announced the names of the suppliers it has selected for its Framework for procuring External Support for Commissioners (FESC). The framework is […]
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Cerner problems ‘reported before NOC go-live’
A problem with appointment bookings that hit Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital when it went live with its new Cerner system had been reported previously by a London hospital, according to a television report. The problem resulted in some patients not receiving appointments and others presenting when the hospital was not expecting them. It also resulted in […]
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Database aims to improve mental healthcare of young
The First Episode of psychosis Research Network (FERN) has awarded a contract to Tribal Technology for development of a mental health database to improve the provision of mental healthcare to young people. Under the contract Tribal Technology will deliver a dedicated database solution to enable FERN to manage its data collection and analysis requirements as […]
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GPs get a voice
New efforts are to be made by the NPfIT to engage GPs. E-Health Insider Primary Care talks to Dr Gillian Braunold, joint GP clinical lead for the programme.
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