19 July 2005

Information systems needed for commissioning

Primary care trusts and practices need to urgently discuss how they can develop information systems to support practice-based commissioning according
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19 July 2005

Go live for indirectly bookable services

Wandsworth and Tower Hamlets PCTs in London have gone live with indirectly bookable services (IBS) – the system that enables acute
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19 July 2005

IPPR calls for electronic health record education

  The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has called for the introduction of IT training for socially excluded sections
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18 July 2005

CliniSys acquires European LIMS leader

Pathology software solutions provider, CliniSys, has acquired MIPS, one of the largest and most successful suppliers of laboratory information management
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18 July 2005

Increase seen in patient booking calls

The call centre set up to deal with Choose and Book appointments is beginning to receive a small number of
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18 July 2005

Choose and Book work agreed with McKesson

Health IT specialist, McKesson has signed a framework agreement with NHS Connecting for Health for upgrade work to enable trusts using the
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15 July 2005

Bradford gets UK’s first iSOFT pharmacy solution

Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust has become the first implementation of iSOFT’s i.Pharmacy software in the UK, a move that
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14 July 2005

BT warned it may face chop in London

BT, one of the main contractors responsible for delivering the NHS IT modernisation programme, has been warned that it must
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14 July 2005

‘Thoughtful’ work needed on NHS, says Accenture

  Accenture, the local service provider (LSP) for the North-east and Eastern regions of England, has told analysts that its NHS contracts
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14 July 2005

HL7 explained

In his second article for EHI, Tim Benson from training company Abies explains HL7 V3, the national language of NHS
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