Lewisham PCT chooses iPlato for SMS reminders
A primary care trust is hoping to reduce missed GP practice appointments by 25% in a year with the aid of a text messaging service. Lewisham PCT has signed a deal with mobile healthcare applications specialist iPlato to use its Patient Care Messaging solution for patients at seven surgeries across the trust. Patients will be […]
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iSoft’s financial troubles mount
Troubled UK health IT software firm iSoft was plunged into further financial crisis on Friday after it announced it had again delayed publication of its full year results because it had been unable to conclude negotiations with its banks. The indications are that iSoft has been unable to complete renegotiation with its banks while its […]
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North Staffs announces ‘big bang’ implementation
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has started its trust-wide ‘big bang’ implementation of a new iSoft patient administration system, together with specialist clinical systems as part of its move towards an electronic patient record. Several of the trust’s legacy systems, many of which were bespoke, have now been replaced in PAS A&E, theatre, maternity, clinical […]
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Welsh GP surgery offers video podcasts
A rural general practice in Wales has started offering video podcasts for its patients covering a variety of subjects, starting with inhaler technique. Builth & Llanwrtyd Medical Practice in Powys, which stretches over two sites and covers 7,700 people, has uploaded its first video, instructing patients in effective use of an inhaler, onto its site […]
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London Cerner switch announcement imminent
NHS acute trusts in the capital will next week receive letters from BT notifying them that it has terminated its contract with GE Healthcare and instead awarded a contract to Cerner to supply its Millennium clinical software to hospitals. The imminent switch to Cerner, first reported by E-Health insider on 13 June, is expected to […]
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iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby
iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nearing completion on the trust’s surgical and urology departments. Following this initial pilot of the order communications component of iCM – enabling clinicians to electronically order and receive test results – is now being rolled […]
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Patient safety becomes priority for NHS IT
The NHS National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has worked with Connecting for Health to build a rigorous system of safety checks which may, if necessary, delay product release, a conference has heard. Clive Flashman, head of the national learning and reporting system at the NPSA, outlined extensive work done to a conference in London this […]
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CfH aims to install at 22 acute trusts by October
NHS Connecting for Health and its prime contractors have told a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee that they will deliver at least 22 new patient administration system (PAS) replacements to NHS acute trusts by the end of October this year. The figure does not include any London trusts. To date the programme has […]
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Tower Hamlets PCT cuts down PBC reporting times
Data mining software has cut down the length of time that one PCT needs to prepare PBC reports from two days to under an hour. Tower Hamlets PCT installed the Monarch system in order to go through their reports and pull out the necessary data from 38 practices, such as outpatient appointments, non-elective admissions […]
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Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children to install Vocera
Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children is to install the Vocera hands-free wireless voice communication system. The new system, which provides staff with hands free voice communication using a simple badge device, will form part of the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children’s (RBHSC’s) new wireless voice and data infrastructure. Staff currently use a range […]
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