Accenture looks set to take over NHSmail
The Health and Social Care Information Centre has confirmed that Accenture is its nominated preferred supplier for the NHSmail service.
Infrastructure
e-Referral Service ‘live on 15 June’
The new NHS e-Referral Service will go-live on 15 June as part of plans to replace all paper-based referrals.
Infrastructure
Open source VNA fits digital ‘jigsaw’
The UK launch of an open source vendor neutral archive is a “key piece of the jigsaw puzzle” to create an open digital health ecosystem, NHS England’s head of open source has said.
Infrastructure
Northampton takes SynApps VNA
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust has bought a vendor neutral archive from SynApps Solutions, on a five-year contract.
Infrastructure
Nottingham kiosks ‘improve efficiency’
Early research on new check-in kiosks at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust shows they have led to improved efficiency, the trust says.e
Infrastructure
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.
Infrastructure
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.
Infrastructure
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.
Infrastructure
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.
Infrastructure
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.
Infrastructure