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Moorfields merges help desks
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Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has implemented service management software from Hornbill enabling it to consolidate its three service desks into one. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Disease matching network spreadsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Software tools that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe are being developed and rolled-out to find children with closely matched conditions. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
iSoft cuts support and delivery staffEmail this article to a colleague.
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Australian software company iSoft has made 36 people redundant from its UK customer support and delivery department as a result of the restructuring project it launched in the summer. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 20, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Bury sets criteria for Lorenzo successEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Bury will accept or reject its newly implemented Lorenzo electronic patient record system on its own criteria, according to documents released by the trust. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Siemens wins west London LAN dealEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Kensington and Chelsea has signed a contract with Siemens Enterprise Communications for a single voice and secure data network. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
UnitedHealth buys ScriptSwitch for £50mEmail this article to a colleague.
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ScriptSwitch, the provider of drug comparison software, has been acquired by UnitedHealth UK, for a reported sum of £50m. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 19, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Kingston to go-live on 30 NovemberEmail this article to a colleague.
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Kingston Hospital NHS Trust plans to go live with Cerner Millennium on 30 November, in what has become a critical milestone for the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 18, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Intel launches text readerEmail this article to a colleague.
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Intel has launched a handheld mobile reader that allows people with learning disabilities and those with poor vision to photograph text and have it read aloud to them digitally. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Barcoded wristbands compulsory by 2011Email this article to a colleague.
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The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has called for patients to wear barcoded wristbands and for trusts that do not comply by July 2011 to be penalised. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 17, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
LSPs paid a quarter of contract priceEmail this article to a colleague.
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The local service providers of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been paid £1.1 billion, less than a quarter of the projected amounts for their projects. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 16, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
East Kent saves £80,000 with SSOEmail this article to a colleague.
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East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it has saved £80,000 by implementing Single Sign On technology from Imprivata. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 16, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
London SCR roll out announcedEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Department of Health has announced that the Summary Care Record is to be rolled out across London from this week. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 16, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
ICO could fine trusts up to £500kEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Ministry of Justice has launched a consultation into whether the Information Commissioner's Office should be able to penalise organisations that make serious data breaches with fines of up to £500,000. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
CfH to crack down on C&B 'misuse'Email this article to a colleague.
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NHS Connecting for Heath is hoping to crack down on the misuse of Choose and Book through new guidance that will be published in the next few weeks. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 13, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Newcastle makes switch to CernerEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully gone live with its new Cerner Millennium hospital information system. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
North East Essex tags infantsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Fryatt Hospital in Harwich, Essex, has installed a new infant protection system to prevent children from being abducted. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 12, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Guernsey progresses InterSystems EHSCREmail this article to a colleague.
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InterSystems has announced that Guernsey Health and Social Services Department has gone-live with key elements of its island-wide Electronic Health and Social Care Record (EHSCR). (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 11, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
The Rotherham slams 'unhelpful' SHAEmail this article to a colleague.
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Brian James, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, has said its strategic health authority threatened it with a "double whammy" of costs to stop it going outside the National Programme for IT in the NHS. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 11, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
West Dorset improves Down programmeEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled-out a maternity solution from GE Healthcare to provide a vigorous Down Syndrome programme for women in West Dorset. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 11, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Cohen: 25 trusts to get Lorenzo in 2010Email this article to a colleague.
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The head of ISoft has said 25 NHS trusts will go live with the company's 'strategic' electronic patient record, Lorenzo, next year. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 10, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
NHS Direct aims to become 'web first'Email this article to a colleague.
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NHS Direct aims to shift a 'substantial amount' of its work from the telephone to the web next year, its chief executive has revealed. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 10, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
NHS aims to become 'web first'Email this article to a colleague.
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NHS Direct aims to shift a 'substantial amount' of its work from the telephone to the web next year, its chief executive has revealed. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 10, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
SCR may have London roll outEmail this article to a colleague.
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The head of the London Programme for IT has admitted that the 'one size fits all' approach to deploying Cerner Millennium was a "mistake". (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Kelsey - info should be compulsoryEmail this article to a colleague.
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GPs and all other NHS providers should be mandated to publish routine, standardised data on their outcomes, according to the chairman of health information firm Dr Foster. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Four in ten readers expect cutsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Four out of ten NHS IT staff are expecting their budgets to decrease next year, and a further 36% expect them to be frozen at this year's level. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 9, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Newcastle set to switch on MillenniumEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning for a "low-key" go live of its new Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system tonight. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Information quality mark launchedEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Information Standard accreditation scheme has been launched at the King's Fund. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 6, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
InterSystems 'wins Scottish PMS deal'Email this article to a colleague.
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E-Health Insider understands that InterSystems has won the contract to provide a national patient management system (PMS) to the NHS in Scotland. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Mobile Solutions Village on showEmail this article to a colleague.
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One of the highlights of the E-Health Insider Live '09 exhibition will be the O2 and BlackBerry Mobile Solutions Village. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Third of trusts miss wristband deadlineEmail this article to a colleague.
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The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to meet the requirement to generate and print standardised patient wristbands. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
N3 Voice Services reaches 100th siteEmail this article to a colleague.
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N3 Voice Services is due to implement its 100th N3 VoIP site today. Len Chard, NHS Connecting for Health's programme head of N3, said the milestone showed how the service had developed since the NHS' broadband network was VoIP-enabled in July 2007. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 5, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
King’s Fund: choice yet to drive qualityEmail this article to a colleague.
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The government's choice policy has yet to be fully implemented and has yet to drive quality in the NHS, a study by the King's Fund has concluded. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 4, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Connelly sets benchmark for NovemberEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Department of Health's chief information officer, Christine Connelly, has spelled out the criteria against which progress on the delivery of the Lorenzo and Millennium care records systems will be judged. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 4, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
EuroKing Miracle may be bought by HSSEmail this article to a colleague.
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EuroKing Miracle today announced that it expects to conclude negotiations to be purchased by Healthcare Software Systems Ltd (HSS), the radiology information system specialists. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
New ASCC procurements promised for SouthEmail this article to a colleague.
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Christine Connolly says the NHS will run "a series of procurements utilising the ASCC framework in January 2010" to provide systems for trusts in the South of England. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Bury goes live with first Lorenzo PASEmail this article to a colleague.
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E-Health Insider has learned that NHS Bury has gone-live with Lorenzo Release 1.9, the first version of the software to include native patient administration functionality. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Multimedia organ donor campaign launchesEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a UK-wide multimedia campaign to promote organ donation. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Blackpool: 'All systems go for Alert'Email this article to a colleague.
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The board of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has approved the proposal for Alert Life Sciences to become the supplier of the trust's electronic patient record system. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
SRC and PCTI sign dealEmail this article to a colleague.
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Digital dictation and voice recognition software supplier SRC has announced that it has signed an agreement with document management specialist PCTI Solutions to enable NHS trusts to deliver electronic documents to GP surgeries. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 3, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Tories promise records for allEmail this article to a colleague.
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Patient-held records are one of the Conservative Party's priorities for health, according to plans published today. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 2, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Lorenzo has just 174 'regular users'Email this article to a colleague.
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Figures released by the government show that a year after the first trust went live with Lorenzo there are only about 174 "regular users" across the five NHS trusts using the system. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - November 2, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
NHS Dudley builds new data centreEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Dudley has completed a new state-of the-art data centre after signing a contract with XMA/2bm. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 30, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Toolkit to nail interoperability - JonesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The new NHS interoperability toolkit has the potential to drive down the cost of interoperability and innovation, according to the Department of Health's chief technology officer. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Bury misses early planning go-liveEmail this article to a colleague.
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NHS Bury has failed to meet its early planning go-live date for Lorenzo Regional Care (Release 1.9). (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Great Western integrates with EnsembleEmail this article to a colleague.
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Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with InterSystems' Ensemble three months after it began implementing the platform. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 29, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Trust loses cancer patient dataEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust has been criticised by the Information Commissioner for losing three unencrypted USB sticks containing sensitive information about cancer patients. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Digital Healthcare texts reduce DNAsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Digital Healthcare, a supplier of software to UK Diabetic Retinal Screening Services, has developed a module that uses text messages to help reduce the number of patients who miss appointments. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 28, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
CQC criticises discharge summariesEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Care Quality Commission has warned that the NHS may be failing to prevent harm to patients by failing to share information when they move between services. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 27, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Barts faces fines over Cerner problemsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Barts and the London NHS Trust faces fines of £400,000 a month for missing patient care targets as a result of problems with its new Cerner Millennium Care Records System, MPs have been told. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 27, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
Swedish pilot fights fake medicinesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Siemens IT Solutions and Services and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) have launched a medicine coding pilot project to help to combat counterfeit medicines. (Source: E-Health-Insider)
Source: E-Health-Insider - October 27, 2009 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
