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.
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has announced plans to implement Epic’s electronic patient record
PharmacyX has been announced as the latest healthcare technology supplier to help deliver an electronic
Beverley Bryant said that two-factor authentication is the biggest deterrent to cyber attacks in the
A feature which allows patients to trace the status and readiness of their prescriptions has
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