Cerner wins big contract with Viapath
Viapath has awarded a contract to Cerner for its PathNet pathology system as part of a transformation project.
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Trusts win up to £8.2m in ‘tech fund 1’
Fourteen trusts received more than £3m in funding from the first round of NHS England’s technology fund, which puts an unexpected focus on electronic patient record projects.
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GPs call for patient opt-in to care.data
GPs have called for patients to be able to opt in to their data being extracted from GP practices as part of care.data.
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Barnsley finances could impact EPR
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is concerned its financial difficulties could impact on getting benefits from its Lorenzo electronic patient record system deployment.
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Medway PAS trouble for Barking
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust has paused all further go-lives of its Medway modules due to trouble with the patient administration system after going live despite being aware of “outstanding issues”.
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Norfolk plans 2015 Lorenzo go-live
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has had its business case to take the Lorenzo electronic patient record system approved by the CSC LSP Programme Board.
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Ambulance trust tenders for EPR
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for an electronic patient record system.
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CQC highlights doctors’ poor handwriting
Doctors’ illegible handwriting in medical records could put patients at risk, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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NHS England to spend £33m on 111 tech
NHS England will spend £33m on re-procuring technical elements of NHS 111, a board paper has revealed.
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Lorenzo teething problems at Walsall
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust has hired 25 temporary staff to help tackle data quality, reporting and backlog issues with its newly implemented Lorenzo electronic patient record system.
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