Insider view: Lyn Whitfield
E-Health Insider’s managing editor reports on yet another NHS reorganisation and wonders what this one is really meant to achieve.
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Insider view: Fiona Barr
Lorenzo to be developed until 2012
ISoft has announced that it will continue to develop its Lorenzo electronic patient record software under the National Programme for IT in the NHS until September 2012.
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EMIS ‘well placed’ for white paper world
Healthcare IT supplier EMIS has announced that it is trading is in line with expectations, with a £300,000 rise in turnover for the first six months of the year to £29.02m. The company said it continues to focus on its next generation system EMIS Web and that ‘first of type’ testing was on track for […]
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‘Large numbers’ of staff to lose jobs
The Department of Health’s informatics directorate is one of the few areas of the NHS that is safe from change for the moment, a letter from NHS chief executive David Nicholson has warned.
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Lansley leads information revolution
The new NHS white paper promises an information strategy for the NHS this autumn, but a report from the National Quality Board provides clues to its content.
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White paper backs Choose and Book
The ‘Liberating the NHS’ white paper backs Choose and Book as part of radical plans to extend patient choice, but has little to say about personal health records.
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PCTs to go in massive NHS reorganisation
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has announced that primary care trusts are to be abolished as part of a massive reorganisation of the NHS.
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It’s cold out there
Malcolm Newbury of IHE UK says it’s time to break out of Groundhog Day and find a new way of doing interoperability in the post NPfIT world.
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Lords: e-records essential for genomics
The government has been urged to place the development of a national electronic health record system at the top of its agenda to secure the full benefits of genomic medicine.
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