Specsavers signs with eClinicalWorks
Optician chain Specsavers has selected eClinicalWorks to provide electronic patient records for all its 500 stores in the UK and another 1,200 internationally.
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Mental health trust adopts e-prescribing
Inpatient mental health wards at Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust have gone live with an Emis Health e-prescribing system, supported by the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’.
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Trust trials Civica e-prescribing system
Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is working with Civica on a beta-test of a new system for the electronic prescribing of medicines.
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NPfIT transitions ‘high risk’
Four NHS hospital trusts that need to replace their nationally procured electronic patient record systems by the end of the month are deemed “high risk” by the board overseeing the programme.
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Open source e-prescribing in pipeline
An electronic prescribing system open sourced for the NHS may be introduced at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
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Hospital struggles with theatre IT swap
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust may have to revert to an old computer system to manage its operating theatres after experiencing problems with its replacement.
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Special report: Data storage / vendor neutral archiving
Vendor neutral archives tend to be associated with digital imaging. But with the appropriate standards, they can be used for other kinds of record. And that’s leading to a debate about their future; both within trusts and within wider health economies.
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English hospital live with InterSystems
InterSystems’ electronic patient record system TrakCare has gone live in an English NHS trust for the first time with the help of £7 million in central funding.
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Electronic observations at Southampton
Paper patient charts will be replaced by iPod Touch devices when a new electronic observations system is introduced in Southampton hospitals next month.
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Croydon improves safety with VitalPAC
This case study from The Learning Clinic outlines how Croydon Health Services NHS Trust has improved the timeliness of patient observations using VitalPAC; enabling an increase in patient safety.
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