Heart of England digitises records
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to complete a project to digitise all of its 1.7m paper patient records by 2015.
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Wirral RTT stats down to Millennium use
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has blamed a glitch in the use of Cerner Millennium for its apparently poor performance on long waits.
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LAS plans for IT go-live and failure
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust may terminate its contract with American supplier Northrop Grumman if a second attempt to go-live with a new dispatch system fails.
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Three more PACS collaborations formed
Three more trust collaborations have been formed to tender for picture archiving and communications systems ahead of the end of national PACS contracts next year.
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RCN and RCM come out against bill
The Department of Health has expressed its “disappointment” with the decision of two royal medical colleges to announce their opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill.
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Barts cuts DNAs with text service
The introduction of a mobile text messaging service has resulted in improved appointment attendance at Barts and the London Hospital NHS Trust.
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Yorks telehealth delays run up costs
The planned benefits of the largest telehealth scheme outside the whole systems demonstrator programme have not been realised and GPs are now being given incentive payments to use it.
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Royal Liverpool pilots kidney alerts
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust is to pilot a system that may improve the detection and prevention of acute kidney injury.
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Staffs trust first on spine mini-service
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has become the first to go live with an ITK spine mini-service by using Quicksilva’s orQestra for direct access to the PDS.
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US finds winning cancer apps
Developers in the US have created mobile applications which make use of public data to help detect, prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
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