Coventry to procure new EPR
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is looking for a new electronic patient record to replace its existing in-house clinical results reporting system.
Clinical Software
Cumbria turns on sexual health EPR
Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new electronic patient record for sexual health from Inform.
Clinical Software
Rotherham updates Meditech
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has upgraded its Meditech electronic patient record system to version 6.07, three years after the troubled implementation of its predecessor.
Clinical Software
Value of apps and wearables questioned
The potential for smartphone apps and wearable devices to have an effect on health outcomes has come under question in an article published by the BMJ.
Digital Patient
Nurse Tech Fund helps Bucks go mobile
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has completed the roll-out of a new mobile technology tool provided by Vodafone and TotalMobile for its community nurses and midwives.
Infrastructure
Accenture looks set to take over NHSmail
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has confirmed that Accenture is its nominated preferred supplier for the NHSmail service.
Infrastructure
Cerner app on time for Apple Watch
Cerner has developed a personalised healthcare data app to use on the Apple Watch, hailing the device as “the next evolution” in healthcare.
Digital Patient
Lancashire spends £1.5m on consultants
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has spent £1.5 million on consultancy firm Ernst and Young to improve its performance management and reporting functions after a series of failures in the area.
AI and Analytics
NHS to switch ESR to IBM in June
The Department of Health has confirmed that the transition to a new electronic staff record system for the NHS in England and Wales will begin in June this year as part of a phased rollout to conclude in November.
Infrastructure
Nurse Tech Fund helps Humber go mobile
Humber NHS Foundation Trust has agreed a deal with BT and TotalMobile to provide hospital staff with a system to view patient records on mobile devices.
Infrastructure