Systems integration
First steps towards fully integrated working in the London
Borough of Newham
Multi-agency information sharing and data matching issues have
recently raised serious concerns throughout the public sector.
Acknowledging the importance of integrated working in improving
outcomes for children and young people, the London Borough of Newham
sought a solution to address the inefficiencies of pre-existing
disparate systems. March 2008.
read more ...Making Choose and Book work for secondary care
Professor Angus Wallace, chair of the National Specialty
Reference Group (NSRG), outlines the work he and his team in NSRG
have conducted to improve a crucial element of Choose and Book and
what it holds in store for consultants.
Understanding the organisation
through process and information modelling
Donna Burbank of Embarcadero Technologies explains how
understanding the critical interrelationships between data,
process and organisation can be facilitated by the use of
graphical models. read more ...
Salford City Council equipment services.
 Salford
integrated community equipment service (ICES) and Salford Wheelchair
Service were using separate service management IT systems and
required a shared system to support full integration. The integrated
system dramatically cut waiting
times for wheelchairs.
July 1007. read more ...
New integration platform for Plymouth trust
Plymouth ICT Shared Services has replaced its current integration
platform with new rapid integration software, Ensemble from. This will enable the Plymouth healthcare community to integrate its legacy clinical applications with the data-centre-hosted suite of applications provided by Connecting for Health.
July 2007
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Simon
Mehlman |
A lateral approach to systems integration
Ascribe’s Simon
Mehlman and Gary
Mooney propose an
alternative to NHS
Connecting for Health’s
approach to systems
integration.
For the vision of electronic
healthcare records (EHRs) to
become a reality, there needs to be
a means by which automated
interactions between the computer
systems in different healthcare
provider settings can be carried out.
April 2007. Read article...
Linking the islands
Cisco UK’s Terry Espiner offers his opinion on the
potential of unified communications.
Many businesses have realised that by migrating to a single,
converged network supporting IP telephony, videoconferencing,
video-on-demand and contact centres, productivity gains that would
have seemed unimaginable a few years ago can be achieved. The adoption of this
private-sector unified
communications model by the NHS will enable
healthcare trusts to ensure that
voice, video and data
communications are integrated
into a unified service, rather than
functioning in isolation. April 2007. Read
article ...
Integrated medicines
management system
for Winchester
hospital
Winchester and Eastleigh
Healthcare NHS Trust has
recently become the first UK trust to
install a second-generation electronic
prescribing and medication
administration system (EPMA). April 2007.
Read article ...
Coventry trust switches to automated reporting
The daily list of required patient records generated by the
hospital’s existing appointments system had to be converted to a
format that could be shared with logistics company TNT’s systems for
transporting the records. April 2007 Read
article ...
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