30 January 2013

Birmingham signs with Agfa

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has signed a five-year contract for Agfa Healthcareā€™s IMPAX solution, delivered as a managed
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9 November 2012

NHS CB builds customer service platform

The NHS Commissioning Board is working on a new ā€˜customer service platformā€™ to take over from NHS Choices and NHS
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8 November 2012

New group to be customer for national IT

Tim Kelsey is set to chair a new informatics services commissioning group that will become an ā€œintelligent customerā€ for national
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6 November 2012

Gutteridge: SNOMED at bed is too hard

Clinicians are not using SNOMED coding to capture information about patients because it is technically too hard, EHI Live 2012
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6 November 2012

Poulter says IT key for new DH team

Health minister Dr Dan Poulter has signalled the continued support for NHS IT under its new health secretary in a
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6 November 2012

Bolton: NHS and SMEs must up their game

The NHS needs to make space for small and medium size IT suppliers ā€“ but these same companies need to
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11 May 2011

Fertility tariff defeated by coding row

The Department of Health has abandoned an attempt to develop a specialist tariff after being refused the necessary clinical codes.
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5 May 2011

E-discharge ‘increases drug errors’

A study of an in-house e-discharge project has found that drug error rates increased rather than decreased after it was
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5 May 2011

New body will lead NHS IT

The Department of Health has confirmed that a new body will support NHS informatics in England, while London has set
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4 May 2011

Trust IT costs show no link to users

There is no relationship between trustsā€™ operational IT costs per user and the number of users they have, a study
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