Peterborough latest to Evolve records
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning to have fully implemented Kainos’ Evolve electronic document management system by this autumn.
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City workers view images from EPR
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust staff will be able to see imaging data from within their Meditech electronic patient record using Agfa HealthCare’s enterprise imaging platform.
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Camden takes ‘quantum leap’ with iPads
Staff at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust will access patient records on iPads following the introduction of a new electronic patient record system in September.
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SCR ‘at tipping point’ with clinicians
The Summary Care Record is approaching 50,000 views per week, according to figures released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
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Wales pilots GP2GP service
Wales has started piloting a GP2GP service to digitally transfer a patient’s record from one medical practice to another.
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NHS gets smart with contactless cards
NHS trusts will have access to contactless smartcards, so staff can log into clinical systems on tablet computers, from autumn this year.
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Luton turns records space into clinics
Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has digitised more than 1.25 million patient record documents, working with Xerox.
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Guy’s and Tommy’s transform data centres
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust non-clinical service’s arm has signed a deal with ANS Group for its £10 million data centre transformation programme.
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Accenture wins NHSmail as crash reported
The Department of Health has announced that consultancy firm Accenture has won a £60 million contract to provide the new NHSmail service the same week the current system was out of action for several hours.
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EE to provide interim NHSmail SMS
EE will take over the provision of SMS services for GPs in England using NHSmail from 1 July, replacing the current supplier Vodafone on an interim basis until 31 September.
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