Lorenzo problems linked to year-long delay for Sheffield patients
15 February 2017
A glitch in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts Lorenzo PAS meant ten patients were not seen for over a year.
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Exclusive: Great Ormond Street picks Epic in potential £50m deal
14 February 2017
One of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK, Great Ormond St, will become the first specialist trust to deploy an Epic electronic patient record.
Morecambe Bay plans Lorenzo revamp despite lack of clinician buy in
13 February 2017
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is pursuing a Lorenzo development plan despite “significant” problems with the system.
New central IT requirements for personal health budgets and integrated personal commissioning
10 February 2017
NHS England is concerned about the “varying quality” of IT supporting the roll-out of personal health budgets and integrated personal commissioning.
Health IT news in brief
10 February 2017
This week’s Health IT round-up includes tweaks to e-referral services for GPs and new order communications system connecting hospitals, GPs, and prisons.
Poor information sharing barrier to NHS integration – NAO
9 February 2017
The report, from the National Audit Office, says reticence to share information across health and social care is one three major barriers to integration.
Cyber-attack leaves anti ISIS message on trust website
9 February 2017
Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust had its homepage hacked into by cyber attackers wanting to push their political message.
North East and Yorkshire trusts adopt tech for faster scan results
10 July 2026
NHS England is expanding the rollout of Hexarad to help patients in the North East
Digital Health’s monthly roundup of contracts and go lives
10 July 2026
Our latest roundup features Powys Teaching Health Board rolling out an electronic prescribing and medicines
NHS AI blood test could reduce invasive cancer exams for women
9 July 2026
Thousands of women could avoid invasive diagnostic procedures for suspected womb cancer under an NHS
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board rolls out Better ePMA
9 July 2026
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board has begun rolling out the Better Meds electronic prescribing and
NHS staff to face sack or prison for unlawful patient data access
8 July 2026
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey has said NHS staff face the sack or
