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Burton upgrades Meditech EPR

23 December 2015

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust plans to upgrade its Meditech electronic patient record in the next few months.

Healthcare IT appointments in brief

23 December 2015

The last appointments round-up of 2015 has news of change at the very top of the Department of Health, at the controversial care.data programme, and at trusts and healthcare IT suppliers in the UK.

Southampton plans three-site EDM project

22 December 2015

A Southampton hospital plans to digitise its existing patient records and replace paper processes with electronic forms using Hyland’s electronic document management system OnBase by Hyland, before closing its records library in 2017.

Hunt: tech money to go on free NHS wi-fi

21 December 2015

Free wi-fi will be available across all NHS buildings in England as part of the government’s commitment to a paperless health service by 2020, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has said.

Mental health data in Leeds Care Record

21 December 2015

The medical records of patients at a mental health trust in Leeds are now available on the city’s shared electronic care record.

King’s picks Allscripts

18 December 2015

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has selected Allscripts to provide its new electronic patient record, which it plans to have in place by the end of 2016.

Healthcare IT news in brief

18 December 2015

This week’s round-up of health tech news includes the creation of a clinical informatics council in Wales and a delay to the implementation of RiO at Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust.