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Focus on: Kent and Medway HIS

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In the first of a series of articles looking at health informatics services, Rebecca Todd speaks to Kent and Medway Health Informatics Service about its business intelligence service.
23 January 2012

Is there a regulation for that?

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Apps are flooding into the healthcare market. But regulators are struggling to catch up – and many people in the industry don’t want them involved. Shanna Crispin reports.
23 January 2012


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Oldham launches telehealth service for COPD patients

NHS Oldham is launching a new telehealth service to 150 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The project is being run in collaboration with Oldham Council and will see patients have their information monitored by the mymedic system. Clinicians will be able to remotely monitor their vital signs including blood pressure, pulse rate, and blood oxygen on a daily basis.

 

17 January 2012




Guy's and St Thomas' develops appointments app

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has developed an iPhone app that enables patients to log appointments on their iPhone calendar, receive alerts about upcoming appointments, and find information on how to get to the trust's hospitals by public transport. The trust spent £12,500 developing the app, which is available for free through the iTunes AppStore.

 

30 November 2011



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Kaiser makes personal records mobile

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Kaiser Permanente has developed an Android application that allows patients to access its 'my health manager' electronic medical records and healthcare services.
27 January 2012

Lloyds to offer smart pill service

19 January 2012

Barts cuts DNAs with text service

18 January 2012

US finds winning cancer apps

16 January 2012

CfH issues tablets safety warning

13 January 2012 13

Medicine Jim, but not as we know it

12 January 2012 3
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Forty CSOs to support new NHS
The majority of primary care trust clusters are planning to set up their own commissioning support organisations for clinical commissioning groups, it has been reported.
27 January 2012

Clinical audit data to be published

26 January 2012

Call for new records standards body

25 January 2012 2

NHS Alliance calls for input on NHS 111

24 January 2012

Bromley GPs redesign e-referral letters

24 January 2012

NHS 'salami slicing' cuts - Dorrell

24 January 2012 3

Wales nears 70 per cent e-referrals

23 January 2012

Patient access concerns voiced by GPC

20 January 2012 10

3millionlives concordat signed

20 January 2012 4

RCN and RCM come out against bill

19 January 2012 4

Praxis commits to encrypt patient data

19 January 2012 1

'Most complex' NHS 111 pilot runs in NW

19 January 2012

Lloyds to offer smart pill service

19 January 2012

CSOs need CCG support to survive - Hakin

18 January 2012 1

EMIS Web reaches 360 practices

17 January 2012

Yorks telehealth delays run up costs

17 January 2012 4

100 strong CSO up and running in NW

17 January 2012 4

Patient Partner on all EMIS systems

17 January 2012

Wales launches access ratings scheme

13 January 2012 3

CfH issues tablets safety warning

13 January 2012 13

Medicine Jim, but not as we know it

12 January 2012 3
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EHI Primary Care Issue 354, 18 January 2012


EHI Primary Care Issue 354, 18 January 2012 An astonishing report has shown that the largest telehealth scheme outside the whole systems demonstrator programme has been forced to start paying GPs to implement hundreds of unused devices.

EHI Primary Care Issue 353, 11 January 2012

EHI Primary Care Issue 352, 4 January 2012

EHI Primary Care Issue 351, 21 December 2011

EHI Primary Care Issue 350, 14 December 2011
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North Bristol tackles Cerner issues
North Bristol NHS Trust has gone back to paper to process some outpatient appointments as it works to fix issues with its implementation of Cerner Millennium.
Homerton extends deal with Cerner
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has signed a new contract directly with Cerner for its Millennium electronic patient record.
Call for new records standards body
Health and social care organisations have called for a new body to be set up to develop clinical record standards to support the development of electronic health records.
Bacon calls for halt on Millennium
Conservative MP Richard Bacon has called for a halt to all Cerner Millennium deployments following appointment problems and delays at the latest trusts to go-live with the system - North Bristol and Oxford.
North Bristol tackles Cerner issues
North Bristol NHS Trust has gone back to paper to process some outpatient appointments as it works to fix issues with its implementation of Cerner Millennium.
Royal Surrey calls in police
Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has asked its regulator and the police to investigate “potentially irregular transactions.”
CSC set to write-off £1bn spent on NPfIT
Computer Sciences Corporation has notified investors that it has been told it will not get a long-anticipated revised NHS IT deal from the UK government worth £2 billion.
Bacon calls for halt on Millennium
Conservative MP Richard Bacon has called for a halt to all Cerner Millennium deployments following appointment problems and delays at the latest trusts to go-live with the system - North Bristol and Oxford.
Brighton faces fine for drives on eBay
A Brighton trust may become the first NHS body to be fined by the ICO after a contractor that it paid to destroy hundreds of hard drives instead sold them on eBay.
Homerton extends deal with Cerner
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has signed a new contract directly with Cerner for its Millennium electronic patient record.
Kaiser makes personal records mobile
Kaiser Permanente has developed an Android application that allows patients to access its 'my health manager' electronic medical records and healthcare services.
Bacon calls for halt on Millennium
Conservative MP Richard Bacon has called for a halt to all Cerner Millennium deployments following appointment problems and delays at the latest trusts to go-live with the system - North Bristol and Oxford.
Patient access concerns voiced by GPC
GP leaders have said they are concerned giving patients access to their online record could risk their medical history being used against them, and may create more work for GPs having to explain medical terms to worried patients.
Homerton extends deal with Cerner
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has signed a new contract directly with Cerner for its Millennium electronic patient record.
Bacon calls for halt on Millennium
Conservative MP Richard Bacon has called for a halt to all Cerner Millennium deployments following appointment problems and delays at the latest trusts to go-live with the system - North Bristol and Oxford.
Brighton faces fine for drives on eBay
A Brighton trust may become the first NHS body to be fined by the ICO after a contractor that it paid to destroy hundreds of hard drives instead sold them on eBay.
CfH issues tablets safety warning
NHS Connecting for Health has warned trusts about the risks of using tablet devices, saying they are less secure and more likely to be stolen than traditional technology.


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