SHA overwhelmed by public response to EHR consent
A senior member of a strategic health authority with a new interim electronic record system has told delegates at the Healthcare Computing 2006 conference that there was such an enormous public response to a mailshot detailing their rights to opt-out that they had to take on extra staff. Anne Reed, clinical data repository manager at […]
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Welsh EHR content revealed in updated plan
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has published the second version of its national case, detailing the proposed content of the electronic health record and stressing that the patient will own the data on it. The update was published last week following last September’s National Architecture Week conference, at which clinicians and IT staff met […]
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MoD to announce EHR contract next year
The MoD will award a contract to build an electronic medical record system that will be used across the whole armed services in the early part of next year, E-Health Insider has learned. Two groups headed by IBM and Logica CMG are building separate electronic medical record systems for the Defence Medical Information Capability Programme […]
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US government awards EHR pilot contracts
The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC, IBM and Northrop Grumman to develop four pilot health information infrastructures across twelve locations in ten states, and then release the designs into the public domain. The four groups, the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) consortia, will […]
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Common Scottish EHR in three years, report advises
Scotland should aim to have its own electronic health record system within three years, a report into the future development of NHS Scotland has recommended. The Kerr report, developed by a team led by Professor David Kerr, aimed to set out how NHS Scotland should evolve over the next few decades. Among its recommendations, it […]
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Wirral Health Informatics Service extends EHR capabilities
The Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) has extended the capability of its pilot electronic health record (EHR) system by installing a forms creation toolkit from i-Health. According to New Zealand-based health IT vendor i-Health, the new toolkit will enable WHIS to provide a Wirral-wide solution for referrals, orders and messaging, for all its "customers" in […]
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Walsall’s EHR Attracts Aussie Interest
Australian researchers looking at electronic record systems are investigating the experience of the NHS in Walsall, West Midlands. The research, initiated by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, is questioning patients, doctors and NHS management in Walsall PCT about their experiences of Fusion, their new electronic record system. The system, which reached […]
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