Royal United Hospital Bath shelves Millennium go-live
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust has shelved its planned 12 July implementation of a new Cerner Millennium patient record system due to uncertainty created by Fujitsu’s departure from the NHS IT programme. The decision was taken just days before the trust was to begin transferring data from its old TDS patient administration system. Hundreds […]
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GS1 and CfH sign 110 hospitals to ‘scan and save’
Barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that 110 NHS hospitals across England have now signed up to ‘scan and save’.
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Benenden to deploy Oasis EPR
Private healthcare group, the Benenden Hospital Trust has signed a five year contract with Oasis Medical Solutions, to implement the Oasis patient administration system. Benenden, whose main hospital is in Cranbrook, Kent, has been using a legacy PAS for the last ten years, but, due to an increase in NHS business as part of the […]
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Nordrhein-Westfalen first to use e-health cards
The German government has announced the Nordrhein-Westfalen state will be the first to be given new electronic health cards, once roll-out begins. The state, known as the North Rhine region, will be the first in Germany to distribute e-health cards, following an agreement between the state government and federations representing health insurance funds, doctors, dentists […]
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QRisk2 helps to predict risk of heart attacks
Researchers have used anonymised GP records to develop a new method for assessing whether people are at risk from cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which they claim will improve national diagnosis rates and better identify those at risk among black and minority ethnic groups. QRisk2 is a new equation developed to help doctors identify those most at risk […]
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Safer surgery tool launched by WHO
The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications and deaths. Currently, the checklist is only available on paper, but its developer Professor Atul Gawande of Harvard University, told E-Health Europe, that work was underway to create an electronic version. The checklist identifies three phases of […]
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Safer surgery checklist launched by WHO
The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications and deaths. Currently, the checklist is only available on paper, but the surgeon who developed it, Professor Atul Gawande of Harvard University, told E-Health Insider, that work was underway to create an electronic version. The checklist […]
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Fujitsu staff talks: 700 possible redundancies
Seven hundred staff working on the NHS Southern Programme for IT face possible redundancy, following the termination of Fujitsu’s £1.1bn contract by Connecting for Health two weeks ago. The former local service provider is to hold discussions with the 1000 members of staff working on the NHS IT contract this week, telling them their options […]
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DrThom makes the pill available online
Women can now purchase the contraceptive pill using the online medical service, DrThom without having to go to a doctor. The service will cost £29.99 for a three month supply and will only be made available to women who have taken the pill before. Patients will need to register on the DrThom website, and then […]
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Moscow laboratory group chooses iSoft system
Gemotest, a Moscow-based private laboratory group, has signed a deal with iSoft to deploy the LabCentre laboratory information system. The system is to be installed initially at Gemotest’s main laboratory in Moscow this year. At the main laboratory, 50 of the group’s 100 staff process 10,000 specimens a day. LabCentre will be integrated with 16 […]
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