New e-health strategy planned for Scotland
A new e-health strategy for Scotland in spring 2008 is promised in a national healthcare action plan, Better Health, Better Care, published this week. The action plan says Scotland’s incremental approach to deploying technology will continue and the new strategy will build on this. “We do not plan to produce some large single database of […]
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Verbal agreement on IM&T DES payments
GP representatives say they have verbal agreement that GP practices can still be paid for IM&T DES work after the scheme ends next March. The two-year DES ends on 31 March 2008 and in theory GPs who have not completed the work by that date would not be able to claim payment. However the BMA’s […]
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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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GP2GP transfer software installed in 2000 practices
Connecting for Health has announced that it has rolled out GP2GP record transfer software to its two thousandth practice and transferred more than 25,000 records using the software. The two milestones for the project mean that nearly one in four English GP practices now has access to GP2GP. So far the rollout only involves practices […]
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Mobile SAP helped Swindon’s flood victims
During the summer’s floods housebound patients in Swindon were visited and assessed by community practitioners, who used mobile devices running the web-based Single Assessment Process software from Liquidlogic. The software integrates health and social care data between Swindon Borough Council and Swindon PCT and allows practitioners to use a shared assessment platform via an internet-based […]
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Healthcare booths go on trial in Scotland
Patients in Scotland will be able to get treatments in specialised health booths, as part of a new collaboration between Cisco and the Scottish Centre for Telehealth.
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Yorkshire and Humber SHA plan TPP-based EPR
Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority has adopted a new IM&T strategy that explicitly plans for the possible non-delivery of Lorenzo.
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Heart of Birmingham to be first VoIP enabled N3 site
The Heart of Birmingham PCT has become the first NHS trust to sign up to BT’s N3 hosted voice service, enabling them to make free on-net calls and cheaper calls to mobile phones. It follows BT’s announcement in July that the N3 network is now voice over internet protocol (VoIP) enabled. The enhancement means that […]
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Shared services discussed in Northen Ireland
Northern Ireland’s health department has launched a consultation on setting up a shared services organisation for health and social care. The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) consultation document states that up to 10% of IT staff posts and 5% of information management staff posts could be lost if the province was […]
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Suppliers set routes on the GPSoC roadmap
TPP’s SystmOne and the wide area network version of EMIS PCS should meet Connecting for Health standards for hosted systems by the end of the year, according to their suppliers. The eight suppliers that have been accepted onto the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) framework have published details of when they expect to achieve the […]
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