English NHS urged to adopt Welsh EPS
A pharmacy body is calling for NHS Connecting for Health to adopt the Welsh model for electronic transfer of prescriptions, in place of Release 2 of the Electronic Prescription Service.
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Wales spends £825,000 on telehealth
Wales has announced plans to spend £825,000 on projects to harness new technology and local innovation to improve access to health and social care in rural areas. A total of 13 local projects will receive a share of £525,000 from the Welsh Assembly Government. A further £200,000 will be allocated to Hywel Dda and Powys health boards to […]
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Wales confirms InterSystems labs deal
NHS Wales Informatics Service has confirmed that it has selected InterSystems to provide its National Laboratory Information Management System. As first reported by E-Health Insider last month, the £12.1m deal will provide a regional deployment of InterSystems TrakCare Lab to support 18 laboratories within seven regional health boards. The deal will see 13 computer systems […]
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InterSystems triumphs in Welsh labs deal
InterSystems is set to be confirmed as the winner of a national contract to provide a new laboratory information management system across Wales.
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NHS Wales gets one number for IT
NHS staff at hospitals in Wales are using a new dedicated service desk and one number for IT support.
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GE wins Wales image sharing contract
Hospitals in south-east Wales are to become early adopters of a new system developed with GE Healthcare that will allow them to share radiology images easily by joining up existing PACS. The PACS image sharing early-adopter is scheduled to begin in summer 2010 and run for six months. The work has been agreed under a […]
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Wales to roll out predictive risk tool
Health Solutions Wales is set to roll out a new tool to predict patients at risk of emergency hospital admission on 1 April. The tool, called PRISM, allows GPs to log into a web-based system where they can view their patient population stratified for risk of emergency admission to hospital in the next 12 months. […]
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Welsh e-referral system to roll out
Wales is to begin rolling out its electronic referral system after positive feedback from pilot GP practices, Informing Healthcare has announced. The Welsh IT agency said its Welsh Clinical Communications Gateway, a version of the Scottish Care Information Gateway, will be rolled out to all health communities over 12 to 18 months, starting this June. Informing […]
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Network supports Aneurin Bevan strategy
Surrey-based systems integrator LAN2LAN has won a contract to design, supply and maintain the wireless infrastructure for the Aneurin Bevan Health Board for up to five years. The health board, which covers a population of more than 600,000 across 60 sites in the Gwent area, will deploy the company’s Trapeze wi-fi solution to provide an […]
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First Welsh practice live with IHR
The first GP practice and out-of-hours service in Wales has gone live with Informing Healthcare’s new Individual Health Record solution. The biggest GP practice in Wales, the Argyle Medical Group in Pembroke Dock, which has 27,000 patients, has become the first practice to use the IHR solution from GP system supplier INPS. The pilot will […]
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