NME 180 trusts turning to SBS framework
NHS Shared Business Services has received 69 expressions of interest from NHS trusts in regard to its framework to support the procurement of clinical information systems.
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Salford urges move to digital pathology
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has called for the whole of Manchester to use digital pathology services, following a successful pilot with Sectra.
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King’s pilots Apple Watch app
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become one of the first trusts in the UK to use the newly launched Apple Watch as part of patient care.
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West Suffolk telemedicine pilot at risk
West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group has pulled out of a partnership with West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust to pilot a telemedicine service, putting the project at risk.
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Medical apps need CE mark – RCP
Doctors should only use medical apps with an official CE mark, new guidance from the Royal College of Physicians says.
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Threat to hurl tablets into canal
Clinicians at a central London trust threatened to throw their tablet computers into a canal before confidence was built in adopting mobile working, an electronic patient record clinical lead has said.
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United Lincolnshire upgrades Medway
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust will upgrade to a new version of System C’s Medway patient administration system following a series of issues with the previous version.
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NME trusts push back Lorenzo go-lives
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust have put back April go-live dates for the Lorenzo electronic patient record.
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NHS Choices aims to aggregate
NHS Choices plans to become an aggregator platform for a more integrated system of NHS services, its head of business development has said.
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Galileo gets first UK site
Royal Stoke University Hospital is the first UK hospital to go-live with NoemaLife’s Galileo electronic prescribing and medicines administration system.
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