St George’s tracks ePMA benefits
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has eliminated instances of incomplete prescriptions on drug charts and increased allergy documentation to 100% using an e-prescribing system.
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Salisbury selects Lorenzo
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has chosen CSC as preferred bidder to provide its Lorenzo electronic patient record system.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Pretty darn Tooting
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is working on making itself a “digitally-based organisation with a bit of paper”, as opposed to a “paper-based organisation with a bit of digitisation.” News editor Rebecca McBeth reports.
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St George’s first with the NEWS
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust is piloting the use of vital signs monitoring equipment that integrates with its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record and new whiteboards.
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Digital Health interview: Roger Killen
The chief executive of The Learning Clinic stepped down at the end of June, after ten years in charge of the company behind VitalPAC. Lyn Whitfield spoke to him.
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Papworth says no to Epic
Papworth Hospital has decided not to go with Epic; and Monitor has announced that it is investigating the installation of the system at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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