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CSUS: big differences in usability of clinical software

The Clinical Software Usability Survey has found big differences in the reported usability of the software used by NHS staff; with wide variations across NHS sectors and between different systems serving the same sector.

Southern TrakCare trusts reschedule go-lives

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has put back its go-live date for its InterSystems TrakCare electronic patient record; as have the other two trusts in the Southern SmartCare programme.

Healthcare IT news in brief

This week’s healthcare IT round-up focuses on software deployments, ranging from the addition of electronic referrals to palliative care from Cumbria’s e-referral service, to another trust rolling out wi-fi for patients.

Alder Hey works with Watson on ‘cognitive hospital’

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has entered a collaboration with the Hartree Centre to use IBM’s artificial intelligence programme Watson to create the UK’s first ‘cognitive hospital’; starting with a tool to help anxious children.

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