NHS to switch ESR to IBM in June
The Department of Health has confirmed that the transition to a new electronic staff record system for the NHS in England and Wales will begin in June this year as part of a phased rollout to conclude in November.
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Nurse Tech Fund helps Humber go mobile
Humber NHS Foundation Trust has agreed a deal with BT and TotalMobile to provide hospital staff with a system to view patient records on mobile devices.
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Bradford migrates data to BridgeHead VNA
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has migrated 1.7 million radiology studies to a vendor neutral archive after signing a five-year contract with BridgeHead Software.
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Special report: digital dictation
Digital dictation is evolving. Increasingly, trusts are looking to use voice recognition to speed up the production of letters – and change whole workflows. Kim Thomas reports.
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Royal Brompton speeds up network
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust is working with Alcatel-Lucent to upgrade its network infrastructure as part of a clinical systems transformation project.
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In for a bad XPerience
Six months after Microsoft ended general support for Windows XP, EHI ran a short survey to find out whether it is still an issue for trusts. It is. Lis Evenstad and Lyn Whitfield report.
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Special report: voice recognition
Can voice recognition make it easier for clinicians to adopt electronic patient records? Fiona Barr investigates.
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Special report: voice recognition
Trusts need to get discharge summaries and other clinical correspondence out of the door faster. As a result, they are looking at voice recognition. Fiona Barr reports.
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Special report: voice recognition
Digital assistants such as Apple’s Siri have raised public awareness of voice recognition; which is also raising its profile in the NHS.
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Special report: voice recognition
Digital dictation and voice recognition is moving from lab to enterprise-wide deployment. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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