Fate of NPfIT funds “complicated”
In an exclusive interview with eHealth Insider, health minister Earl Howe hinted that capital funding will be available for NHS IT, but their nature will be “complicated.”
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In an exclusive interview with eHealth Insider, health minister Earl Howe hinted that capital funding will be available for NHS IT, but their nature will be “complicated.”
Four TPP practices are piloting a scheme to provide patients with access to their health records online; but the company’s clinical director has said many GPs still have concerns.
The new NHS information strategy urges health and social care services to make full use of online technologies to put patients in control of their health and health records.
Providing patients access to their online records by 2015 is one of the few specific commitments in the government’s newly released information strategy.
The new NHS information strategy says that every health care organisation needs to appoint a ‘board-level’ CCIO, or equivalent senior clinical leader, to be its local information champion.
North Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is investing £5m in designing and implementing a clinical information system using Civica’s PARIS software.
Doctors at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be able to access the organisation’s electronic patient record system from the bedside using iPads.
An online survey of UK GPs by the BMJ has revealed that one in five
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has deployed CLEO Systems’ electronic prescription system (EPS) across a
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has gone live with the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
More than half of acute trusts have signed up to the NHS federated data platform,
GP blood testing services across south east London have been restored following the cyber attack