Emis loses preferred vendor status in Wales following procurement review
Emis has announced it has lost preferred vendor status for GP practices in Wales which means 195 practices will now have to be transitioned to a new supplier.
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Advisory Series: Transformation
As reports emerge about cancelled operations, “black alerts” and soaring hospital admissions, it is clear that NHS is struggling to cope with winter pressures. Can technology come to its rescue and drive the transformation to help ease those significant pressures? Jennifer Trueland investigates.
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East Lancashire Hospitals confirms Cerner EPR procurement
East Lancashire Hospitals has confirmed it is ditching paper records after more than 30 years, after selecting Cerner as its new EPR supplier.
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An app to put photos into clinical records? Yes, please.
If images taken from smart phones can appear in photo streams in our laptops and PCs, then why isn’t there a more streamlined way of getting photos into electronic health records. Dr Neil Paul explores.
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Incidents in Manchester and Wales mean NHS hit by two major IT failures in 24 hours
The NHS has experienced two major network outages in the space of 24 hours, after IT problems struck trusts in Manchester and Wales on Wednesday (24 January).
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Welsh patients warned of ‘backlog’ following widespread network failures
A widespread network failure at two data centres in Wales has now been resolved but there has been warnings that some areas may experience a “backlog”.
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The challenge of funding cloud using ‘Monopoly money’
While NHS Digital’s latest guidance on cloud services is helpful, Darren McKenna says we need revenue funding instead of capital budgets to drive up cloud adoption.
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NHS green-lights cloud technology for storing patient data
NHS Digital has issued new national guidance for health and care organisations considering cloud services for storing patient information.
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Emis faces multi-million pound penalty for GPSoC breach
Emis has notified investors it expects to incur penalties “in the order of upper single digits of millions of pounds” after failing to meet unspecified contractual requirements in its GP Systems of Choice contract governing the supply of electronic patient record systems.
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Lack of dedicated mobile apps leading NHS to develop its own, new Digital Health research suggests
Against a backdrop of limited clinical apps from suppliers and constrained funding, NHS organisations are simply developing their own, research published by Digital Health Intelligence suggests.
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