Glocs gets smart with central funds
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will go live with an InterSystems electronic patient record in November after becoming the first southern acute trust to have government funding approved for the project.
Clinical Software
Open source VNA fits digital ‘jigsaw’
The UK launch of an open source vendor neutral archive is a “key piece of the jigsaw puzzle” to create an open digital health ecosystem, NHS England’s head of open source has said.
Infrastructure
Nottingham kiosks ‘improve efficiency’
Early research on new check-in kiosks at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust shows they have led to improved efficiency, the trust says.e
Infrastructure
Western Isles eyes BI expansion
NHS Western Isles is working with other Scottish health boards to expand its range of business intelligence dashboards.
AI and Analytics
Kwo back in London to lead EPR at UCLH
Health IT industry veteran David Kwo will lead work on a replacement for University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s electronic patient record system, EHI News has confirmed.
News
London off NPfIT Cerner contract
London’s trusts running the Cerner Millennium electronic patient record have all signed new deals to replace their nationally funded contracts; but now face a challenge to move their data out of the BT data centre.
News
Emis widens data sharing ambitions
Emis is set to follow up a data sharing deal with TPP with new interoperability agreements to cover the other suppliers in the market.
News
Planning key to interoperability – BCS
The drive for interoperability across the health and social care system must be backed by strong business planning and organisational change to succeed, new guidelines from the BCS say.
Interoperability
South Central Ambulance first for SCR
The South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust will roll out mobile access to the NHS Summary Care Record for ambulance crews within three months, as part of the implementation of its Ortivus electronic patient record system.
News
Tech fund 2 winners named
NHS England has finally revealed the successful projects from the second round of its technology fund, nearly a year after it first opened for applications.
News