NHS Informatics Review says trusts need ‘interim’ systems
NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems as a result of the NHS Informatics Review.
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Major weaknesses found in maternity systems
The Healthcare Commission has urged trusts to invest in maternity information systems in a report that identifies major weaknesses in services for pregnant women and new mothers. The outcome of a two-year review of maternity services in England, launched after a series of inquiries at trusts, identifies a lack of good maternity information services as […]
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Servicio Extremeno de Salud selects Autonomy
Spanish public healthcare service provider Servicio Extremeno de Salud has selected Autonomy to provide it with an enterprise-wide search platform to underpin a new prescription alert system Servicio Extremeno de Salud (SES), a provider of health services to a million citizens in the Extremadura region of Spain, will use technology supplied by Autonomy to quickly […]
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NHS informatics review set to stress continuity
As part of the next stage review of the health service will see the publication of the blueprint for NHS informatics, to accompany last week’s ten year blueprint for the health service ‘High Quality Care for All: The NHS Next Stage Review’. The accompanying informatics review matters as the Darzi direction of travel is all […]
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Sectra to provide Galician hospitals with PACS
Swedish Picture Archiving and Communications System supplier Sectra has signed an agreement with Spanish healthcare service provider Sergas to install PACS at five of the regions public hospitals. Sergas is the organisation that runs public healthcare services in the Galicia region in the northwest of Spain. Sectra PACS (system for handling radiology images) will serve […]
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Europe aims for interoperable EHRs by 2015
The European Commission has published new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records across the continent by the middle of the next decade. At the heart of the recommendation is the premise that the basic components needed to support cross-border interoperability also apply to the local, regional and […]
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iSoft introduces LabCentre in Netherlands
iSoft has announced that its LabCentre laboratory information system is to be introduced in the Netherlands. An iSoft spokesperson told EHE the system will be available immediately in the Netherlands and is to offer benefits including “extremely rapid implementation, ease of use, improved remote requesting, improved test turn around, embedded word processing and cancer dataset […]
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EMIS extends online patient record access
GP IT system supplier EMIS is extending its online patient record access service to all of its practices. Latest figures show that GP medical records have so far been viewed 10,853 times with the EMIS Access system, which has been piloted in a small number of practices over the last 18 months. Sean Riddell, managing […]
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Aberdeen Royal Infirmary uses ExtraMed software
Screenshot of BEDS system from ExtraMed NHS Grampian is planning to roll out a real-time bed management system across its nine hospitals following a deployment at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. The BEDS system from ExtraMed has replaced a paper-based system in which ward managers would monitor and report on the bed status of their ward twice-daily. […]
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Winchester deploys single sign-on software
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has deployed single sign-on software from Evidian to simplify access to key applications. The software enables clinicians to use all the trust’s web-based services with a single user log-in and password. The trust’s head of IM&T, Tunde Ishola, said: “Previously, staff had to remember up to 15 unique sets […]
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