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London and south east NHS trusts want replacement for NPfIT e-record system to enable data sharing and mobile working NHS trusts in London and the south east of England are planning to spend up to £300m on a replacement clinical and administrative information system. The system is intended to enable...
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Department of Health to create content and advisory board to oversee development of electronic emergency care summary The Department of Health is setting up a new organisation to oversee the scope of the clinical content in the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR). It will be known as the summary care record...
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Gill Hitchcock finds that many insiders are skeptical about implementation of the government's NHS information strategy The power of information is a punchy title for the government's health and social care strategy. But while this long-awaited document is powerful on rhetoric, it's weak...
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*** Vinegar, the Patient from Hell, applauds the aims of the Power of Information, but wonders who will implement it So, the Department for Health finally announced its information strategy , The Power of Information. Its aims are splendid, quite like what I was calling for last week : • Consistent use...
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Cabinet Office transparency and open data chief to become national director for patients and information Tim Kelsey has been appointed national director for patients and information by the NHS Commissioning Board. He will take up the post in July and step down as executive director for transparency and...
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NHS informatics leaders believe US-style health sector financial incentives could drive new NHS information strategy The NHS information strategy will be driven by financial incentives, possibly similar to those introduced by US President Obama, Dr Paul Altmann, chief clinical information officer at...
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NHS informatics director Charles Gutteridge says secure personal health record project will close 'over the next year or so' HealthSpace, NHS patients' personal health records organiser, will close within a year, according to Dr Charles Gutteridge, national clinical director for informatics...
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NHS commissioners will find it 'challenging' to invest in IT to meet new government strategy, says think-tank The King's Fund has warned that implementation of the government's long-awaited NHS information strategy raises technical and financial challenges and will rely on the pace and...
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As the health service awaits an information strategy launch, the patient from hell comes up with his own suggestions Katie Davis, director general and managing director NHS informatics at the Department of Health, will be launching her NHS information strategy "real soon". This launch was originally...
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Mental health trust launches patient-held electronic health record MyHealthBox South London and Maudsley foundation trust has launched an online health record that gives patients direct access to their health records. The MyHealthBox web portal uses Microsoft's HealthVault platform and allows patients...
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A health service IT conference sends the Patient from Hell's head spinning. How will the clinicians cope? All the rhetoric at the HC2012 conference earlier this month proclaimed from the rooftops that integration of health and social care is at the heart of patient care, and "information is...
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UK-wide online system letting patients see results within hours of a test may be used by other specialities Patients of 53 renal units across the UK are accessing results and clinical letters through a secure online system, often meaning they get the information faster than their GPs. Renal PatientView...
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North Bristol NHS trust says £2.33m hike in costs of Cerner system in recent months were due to need for extra staff, hardware and technical resources North Bristol NHS trust has confirmed it has overspent on its Cerner electronic patient record (EPR) system by almost 100% in recent months. The trust...
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Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS trusts select suppliers for hardware, infrastructure and patient records contract Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS foundation trusts have named HP and Epic as preferred bidders for the implemenation of a common technology...
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900 clinicians get Samsung Galaxy Tabs to enable mobile working and cut travel time Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS foundation trust has begun the roll out of tablet devices to hundreds of clinicians. The first tablet devices will be given to community services staff next month. By the third quarter...
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