31 May 2006

Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients

Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking
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30 May 2006

June Choose and Book target ‘impossible’ in London

The GP incentive scheme target for 25% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book in June appears to
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30 May 2006

EMIS software now tracks kidney disease risk

EMIS have developed an upgrade to their PCS and LV general practice record software that trawls records to identify patients
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30 May 2006

Care records now running 2.5 years late

Health minister Lord Warner has said that plans to introduce an integrated electronic medical record for every NHS patient in
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30 May 2006

Doctors back calls for review of NHS digitisation

An overwhelming majority of GPs and hospital doctors have backed the calls of senior academics for an independent assessment of
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26 May 2006

US conference gets a reality check on NPfIT

Former National Programme for IT industry liaison manager, Phil Sissons, delivered a transatlantic reality check this week, exposing some of
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26 May 2006

Requirement needed for joint planning

Hopes that forthcoming government guidance will require the NHS to plan jointly with local government for care outside hospital have
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25 May 2006

Crossroads for Kodak

Jon Hoeksma talks to Kevin Hobert, senior vice president at Eastman Kodak Company and president of the Health group, about
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25 May 2006

Granger says NHS chief exec fully backs NPfIT

NHS IT director-general Richard Granger claimed this week that the service’s acting chief executive Sir Ian Carruthers is fully behind the programme and the
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25 May 2006

GP lead warns on political perils

Connecting for Health GP clinical lead, Dr Gillian Braunold, has challenged colleagues to keep arguments about the minutiae of IT
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