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Exploring the best examples of how digital is enabling the transformation of health services at scale, ranging from clinical care to back office and support functions. With particular focus on productivity and safety.
When The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust ran into problems with a big EPR implementation, it added a ‘skin’ to link up its systems. This has developed into a sophisticated portal that now underpins the area’s IT strategy, as Laura Stevens discovered.
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust have digitalised tens of thousands of records ahead of announcing a new EPR.
Just two firms – Emis Health and JAC – have been given ‘preferred bidder’ status for an e-prescribing framework contract in Scotland that should be completed and signed by the end of next month.
This week’s healthcare news round-up delves into a progress on e-referrals in Ireland, how doctors are getting involved in healthcare social media platforms, and some clever tech from Lincolnshire.
iPads will be deployed to more than 200 paramedics in Kent to help them manage and send patient electronic information remotely.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has a pure best of breed approach to IT, has been at the forefront of deploying e-observations and vital signs technologies, and is now trialling wearable monitors. Kim Thomas went to visit.
