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EHI’s industry news roundup 12.10.07

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 12 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and events,
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Online access to patient information in Wales

Gateway technology is to be evaluated over the coming months to see if it can be used by NHS Wales
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Lord Darzi pledges IT review

A review of England’s NHS IT modernisation programme to ensure it “delivers real clinical benefits” is promised in health minister
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Scottish and NI GPs top 97 per cent on QoF

GPs in Scotland and Northern Ireland earned more than 97% of the points available from last year’s Quality and Outcomes
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ASCC ‘symbol’ of return to local procurement

Healthcare software vendor, Ascribe, says the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) framework catalogue, designed to expand the range of
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IT underpins development of NHS Direct

NHS Direct is banking on new technology to help deliver better services and cope with record levels of demand, Joe
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MPs say EPRs essential but delivery in doubt

Electronic patient record systems are vital to the future of healthcare in England, but there remain big questions and concerns...
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NHS ICT spend set to hit £2.9bn

The total spend on Information and Communications Technology in the NHS is set to hit £2.9bn in 2007/8 according to
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Wanless warns NPfIT risking NHS modernisation

In a review of NHS modernisation efforts Sir Derek Wanless has criticised the slow progress of the National Programme for
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One quarter of patients favour records opt-out

Two-thirds of patients believe the government’s consent plans for the Summary Care Record (SCR) are acceptable but one in four
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