Yorkshire HIS audits software assets electronically
The Health Informatics Service, which provides IT services to 12 healthcare organisations across South West Yorkshire, can now electronically audit all the software and devices in its area, using the Centennial SAM.Suite. IM&T portfolio manager, Neil Asling, told E-Health Insider that manual audits were taking engineers weeks to complete and the service was unable to […]
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Barking goes-live with EuroKing maternity system
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system, E3, to help achieve better data collection, reporting and audit. The system has been implemented across Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital, which between them deliver 10,000 high and low risk births annually. The trust is using the […]
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London pharmacies use SMS for stop smoking drive
Pharmacies in London are to use text messaging to launch a smoking cessation campaign and offer customers support to kick the habit. The pharmacies will use iPLATO’s Patient Care Messaging for Pharmacies service to validate smoking status, invite “quitters” to smoking cessation services and “follow up” with them over a year. They will also receive […]
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Patient aged 12 told to use Choose and Book
A patient aged 12 has become the youngest patient to use the Choose and Book appointment system, after her practice required her to use the system to book a hospital appointment. Shani Sakin was sent a letter by her GP practice near Bristol asking her to contact the Choose and Book team to select an […]
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Scotland superbug alert system delayed
The Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland system, which will be used to alert doctors to superbug outbreaks, will not be launched until next year. The web-based early warning system was meant to be deployed later this year. However, Health Protection Scotland, the agency responsible for ECOSS, says linking Scottish diagnostic labs to the system […]
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Milton Keynes’ CRS caused ‘near melt down’
The deployment of a national programme care records system at Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust “developed into an untenable situation which resulted in near melt down of the organisation.”
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Patientline acquired by Hospedia
Patientline UK has announced its decision to enter administration and been acquired by the newly formed Hospedia Ltd, a hospital entertainment and telephony company funded by the existing Patientline banking syndicate. The acquisition, which was announced late on Friday, will see £35m of Patientline’s debt wiped out through a debt for equity swap, if it […]
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EHI’s news roundup 25.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 25 July 2008 featuring supplier news and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Norfolk NHS website struck by Asprox virus The personal details of thousands of internet users who visited several key government and consumer websites are at risk because of a new form […]
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Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment
EHI goes behind the scenes at Benenden Hospital, as it prepares to go-live with an Oasis electronic patient record system.
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Royal Free flags training issues
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has rebutted local newspaper coverage claiming that it has suffered a "month of computer chaos." The trust admits there has been some issues since it went live with the London Cluster Release 1 version of Cerner Millennium. However, it says these were not unexpected and staff are already seeing […]
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