Data identified as key factor in PBC failure
Lack of high quality data is one of the key factors behind the poor progress of practice-based commissioning, the King’s Fund has concluded. The think-tank is calling for a major shake-up of PBC, following an in-depth, two year study of four primary care trusts in England. The report, Practice-based commissioning: Reinvigorate, replace or abandon? says […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards: the winners
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust emerged as the overall winner of the BT e-Health Insider awards at the Millennium Mayfair Hotel last night.
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Vision 4 looks further off
Delivery of the new clinical system Vision 4 from GP system supplier INPS could be moved back to 2011. The latest update on suppliers’ planned release dates for NHS Connecting for Health applications shows that Vision 4 is being replanned; although the company’s hosted version of its Vision 3 system has become the first hosted […]
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GP2GP out-of-date medical records concern
GP practices that have moved from a GP2GP compliant system but left it connected to the Spine have been inadvertently sending patient records to other practices which could be out-of-date. The error came to light after it was discovered that some practices that have moved from INPS Vision 3 or EMIS LV 5.2 have retained live GP2GP […]
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One small step for Lorenzo
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has given Lorenzo a soft landing. Lyn Whitfield went to see it in action.
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Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Talks over BT role in London primary care systems
BT may drop responsibility for delivering new primary care systems in London and focus on building an integration engine for existing systems, EHI Primary Care understands. The local service provider for London is in contract talks about the GP solution that could see it end its responsibility to deliver new primary care systems in the […]
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Healthcare Interoperability Preview 3
Stephen O’Brien tells Jon Hoeksma that interoperability is the starting point for future Conservative healthcare IT strategy.
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DH looks at single urgent care number
The Department of Health has said that it will publish proposals for a single, national telephone number for urgent care later this year. Responding to this week’s Healthcare Commission report on emergency and urgent care, the DH said: “As announced in Lord Darzi’s review of the NHS, we are looking at the benefits of a […]
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GP seeks greater urgency on interoperability
A GP who has pioneered record sharing between GP and community teams wants to see local service providers giving interoperability a higher priority. Dr Kambiz Boomla’s practice was the first surgery in London to trial EMIS Web, the common clinical record system from GP IT supplier EMIS. But he says plans to interoperate with hospital […]
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