Search for NHS England’s new CITO drags on
NHS England has extended its search for a new chief information and technology officer, after initial interviews failed to find an suitable candidate.
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Wireless monitoring of sick kids rolls-out in Birmingham
Birmingham Children’s Hospital will roll-out personalised wireless monitoring of sick kids, with an early warning system that can alert clinicians hours before a life threatening event.
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Radiology transformation through collaboration
Ireland’s National Radiology Quality Improvement Programme used the Conserus Workflow Intelligence solution to drive quality improvement against national guidelines; and its success has made McKesson keen to promote similar initiatives in the UK
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh gets ready for #HISGoLive
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has set a go-live date for its deployment of Allscripts Sunrise; and created a Twitter hashtag on which people can follow its progress.
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E-prescribing use remains extremely low in the NHS
Levels of electronic prescribing in NHS hospitals remain stubbornly low, with less than a fifth of hospitals making widespread use of inpatient e-prescribing.
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Special report : E-prescribing
The roll-out of e-prescribing across the NHS in England is glacially slow; and the sudden removal of tech fund money has all but frozen the market. Find out more in our Special Report.
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Digital Health interview: Gordon Lorimer
The managing director for Cambio in the UK and Ireland was appointed to grow the firm’s EPR presence. He speaks to Digital Health news editor Rebecca McBeth about its ‘fantastic’ reference site in Harlow and joined up working back in Sweden.
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Southern TrakCare trusts reschedule go-lives
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has put back its go-live date for its InterSystems TrakCare electronic patient record; as have the other two trusts in the Southern SmartCare programme.
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And breathe: West Suffolk the other side of its Cerner go-live
Dermot O’Riordan, chief clinical information officer of West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust, talks to Lyn Whitfield about its “not quite full big bang” go-live with Cerner Millennium earlier this month and what comes next.
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Sandwell and West Birmingham picks Cerner as IT partner
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust has chosen Cerner for a major investment in IT that will include an electronic patient record, interfacing to community and GP systems, and a patient portal.
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