A world of good
Some of the best ideas for e-health around the World were brought together for the Imagine Cup. Joe Fernandez reports.
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BCS calls for complete overhaul of NHS IT project
A new report from the British Computer Society has called for a fundamental rethink of the NHS IT programme, including putting one hold current plans for a national system of summary records and for the scope of NHS Care Records Service to fundamentally re-defined. Rather than attempt to build a monolithic national database of records […]
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Heart of England invests in digital retinopathy
Information management and storage specialists, EMC Corporation, have implemented two EMC Centera content storage systems at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust to b e able to more effectively store and provide rapid access digital diabetic retinopathy images. One hundred Birmingham and Black Country community-based optometrists will be participating in a regional diabetic retinopathy […]
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N3 Internet gateway fails across NHS
Users of the NHS broadband network across England were left unable to access the internet for about two hours on Tuesday due to a problem with the internet gateway. The failure left NHS users unable to access the web-based version of Choose and Book or web-based clinical knowledge sources. The fault is believed to have […]
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NHS broadband network provider wins ISO accreditation
BT has announced that its NHS New National Network service provider arm (N3SP), the unit within BT responsible for building and supporting the broadband network for the NHS has achieved ISO 20000 accreditation for effective IT service management. N3 is the broadband infrastructure for the £12.4 billion NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT). ISO […]
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Virtual Consulting Room successfully piloted
A Virtual Consulting Room offering healthcare professionals the facility to compare notes for medical consultations has been developed by staff and students at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and the Royal Free and University College Medical School in London. The Virtual Consulting Room (VcR) is an internet-based medical consultation application, which streamlines patient care […]
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Warner rejects call for CfH architecture review
Health minister Lord Warner has rejected calls from leading computer academics for an independent review of the technical architecture of the NHS national programme for IT. Speaking at a conference in London yesterday he said: "…I do not support at the call by 23 academics to the House of Commons Health Select Committee to commission […]
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Hounslow PCT launches remote access
Network integration specialist Scalable Networks has teamed up with Hounslow Primary Care Trust to set up a new home and roaming access service for 700 staff. The system has been set up to prepare the trust for its implementation of CSE-Servelec’s web-based Electronic Care Record system, RiO, at the end of next month. RiO will allow […]
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NHS Direct patient database approaches first birthday
NHS Direct, the health service’s telephone and online advice service will celebrate the first birthday of its single national database next month, launched in partnership with clinical decision support software (CDSS) specialists, Clinical Solutions. The database records all individual patients who contact the NHS Direct phoneline and holds details of their enquiry and any advice […]
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Some N3 links ‘too slow for Choose and Book’
A fanfare for the near completion of the new NHS network, N3, has been met with complaints that some GP practices with new broadband connections are not receiving enough bandwidth even to use the e-referral system, Choose and Book, effectively. Announcements last week from the network’s purchaser, Connecting for Health, and supplier, BT, brought numerous […]
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