Leeds and York Partnership NHS FT selects CareWorks for new EPR
The trust issued a tender for a new EPR in September 2017 and currently runs Civica’s Paris EPR, which was deployed in 2011 on a seven-year-contract.
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Special Report: Medicines Management
With national funding pledges to increase the uptake of e-prescribing in hospitals, digital medicines management is occupying a prominent place on the national agenda. But does that mean it can now finally hold a consistent place across NHS activity in local organisations? Jennifer Trueland investigates.
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Nottingham University goes live with orders and results software
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) has gone live with System C’s orders and results software, which it is anticipated will handle around 4,000 orders and 38,000 results per day.
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS FT signs five-year e-prescribing deal
Dr Sue Elcock, the trust’s medical director, told Digital Health News that would begin piloting would begin piloting Civica’s system on a specialist forensic unit some time between “August and September”, which ties into the go live date of the trust’s Servelec electronic patient record.
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Countess of Chester partners up with Cerner in 15-year deal
Cerner Millennium will replace the Meditech electronic patient record that has been in use at the trust since 1999, the contract for which expires at the end of next year.
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Government minister calls for NHS and councils to prioritise CP-IS
Nadhim Zahawi’s announcement follows a plea by the children’s commissioner for England who urged all NHS organisations in the country to adopt CP-IS as soon as possible, after it was revealed that just over half of NHS sites have implemented it.
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Nervecentre to launch new ‘first-of-its-kind’ EPR in June
According to Nervecentre, the new system gives hospital teams access to vital real-time information at the patients’ bedside, with the company claiming it is the only EPR in the UK to be built ‘from the ground up’ to tackle the specific needs of NHS hospitals.
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Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust finally gets Epic approval
Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust is to proceed with the implementation of an electronic patient record (EPR) from US-based company Epic, more than four years after it selected the firm as its preferred supplier.
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Clanwilliam Group acquires Informatica Systems Limited
The company, which will become part of Clanwilliam’s NHS division, provides predictive analytics technology to every GP practice in Wales to help doctors predict when specific patients are at risk of developing chronic diseases.
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St Helens and Knowsley completes ‘massive programme of work’ with new PAS deployment
The trust has deployed System C’s Medway patient administration system (PAS) within its two main acute sites, St Helens and Whiston, as well as Newton hospital.
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