A grand NHS patient record system that was intended to computerise every patient record - before being abandoned - has cost UK taxpayers £10bn so far. Furthermore, hundreds of millions of pounds more in costs are expected to emerge ...
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The Department of Health (DoH) has invited bids for the provision of an electronic staff record (ESR) system in a contract that could be worth up to £450m. The DoH released a "prior information notice" on the Official Journal of the ...
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The government and NHS will invest £1bn in technology over the next three years in a bid to improve patient care and ease pressure on A&E departments, health secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today. The move is part of ongoing efforts ...
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About 50,000 clinicians are expected to learn how to code over the next few years, according to NHS England's director of patients and information, Tim Kelsey. Kelsey said that a new initiative called Code4Health will launch this autumn ...
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Second Sight Medical Products has secured Medicare coverage for its Argus II retinal prosthesis system (Argus II) designed to treat the patients affected with blindness from the untreatable orphan disease retinitis pigmentosa in both the US ...
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NHS England has issued a tender worth between £200,000 and £2m to train 100,000 people in basic online skills, in its bid to boost health literacy. The plan comes under NHS England's commitment in 2013/14 and 2015/16 to reduce ...
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GP practices could be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if they fail to warn patients that identifiable data will be extracted from their electronic health records to be used by the National Health Service (NHS) ...
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A report on 14 of the UK's hospital trusts with persistently high mortality rates has found that staff struggled to comprehend data to improve performances. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh was asked by the Secretary of State for Health, and ...
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GlaxoSmithKline has received approval from the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), for its platelet-boosting drug Revolade in the treatment of adult bleeding disorder, chronic immune (idiopathic) ...
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The NHS has announced that, from 2014, all NHS Trusts and providers must use patient NHS numbers as the primary identifier. The move - which seems simple, but could save a huge amount of unnecessary paperwork - means medical records can ...
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Google Glass should be banned entirely, according to one in five UK and US adults who took part in cloud hosting provider Rackspace's new survey. The survey, dubbed "The Human Cloud: Wearable Technology from Novelty to Productivity", was ...
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NHS Wales expects to save £1m per year once it has gone live with document management solutions from software provider V1, as well as a range of e-trading solutions across the health service. Further reading Caldicott review: ...
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Big data is not yet being embraced, according to Adrian Asher, chief information security officer (CISO) of the Skype division at Microsoft. Asher told delegates at Infosecurity Europe 2013 that big data is currently just a buzzword used ...
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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK, has recommended Novartis' Lucentis (ranibizumab) be approved for use in the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales. Ranibizumab is used to treat ...
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has announced an agreement with HP, allowing the enterprise services provider to implement an electronic patient records (EPR) system eHospital programme aimed at improving services. Worth over ...
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