By any other name…
The EPR team at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has named their baby Elsa Penelope Rose. Two years on from her birth, Thomas Meek goes to see how she is developing.
Clinical Software
Tom’s digital health disruptors: Press start
Gamers love getting high scores and being rewarded for them. So why not apply these rewards to wellness and treatment activities? Tom Meek looks at some pioneering projects to bring gamification to healthcare.
Digital Patient
Wye Valley second trust for openMaxims
Wye Valley NHS Trust has signed a five-year deal with IMS Maxims to implement its open source electronic patient record openMaxims.
Clinical Software
NME to retain most NPfIT-era systems
The end of NPfIT contracts in the North, Midlands and East looks unlikely to trigger an immediate, large-scale change in IT systems, with the HSCIC and industry contracts predicting that 60% of systems installed by CSC will be retained.
Clinical Software
DH refuses to release IT savings report
The Department of Health has turned down a Freedom of Information request from Digital Health News to see a report that purportedly shows how technology can save the NHS billions of pounds each year.
News
Cumbria launches social care referrals
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust is now able to refer patients to social care services at the “press of a button.”
News
SCR ‘at tipping point’ with clinicians
The Summary Care Record is approaching 50,000 views per week, according to figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Infrastructure
Wales pilots GP2GP service
Wales has started piloting a GP2GP service to digitally transfer a patient’s record from one medical practice to another.
Infrastructure
Sheffield steels itself for EDM project
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has picked Restore’s CCube as its electronic document management system as part of its transformation into a digital hospital that will also see it go-live with CSC’s Lorenzo next month.
Clinical Software
Tech support offered to vanguards
Interoperability and information governance are among the technological priorities for NHS ‘vanguard’ sites, according to a support package published by NHS England.
News