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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.
Levels of electronic prescribing in NHS hospitals remain stubbornly low, with less than a fifth of hospitals making widespread use of inpatient 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
