Health IT rethink needed amid “colossal” financial challenge
Sir David Dalton has called for a radical shake-up in the way that NHS IT is bought and deployed in a health select committee report that warns the NHS is facing a “colossal” financial challenge.
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh go-live with Sunrise
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with Allscripts Sunrise electronic patient record, deploying it across five sites.
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh gets ready for #HISGoLive
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has set a go-live date for its deployment of Allscripts Sunrise; and created a Twitter hashtag on which people can follow its progress.
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Colin and Clive’s 12 top tips for a successful EPR project
Colin Sweeney and Clive Stringer worked for 20 and 35 years respectively in IT at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. They share their top tips for implementing electronic patient record systems.
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Salford best practice site visit: Rock stars, roadies and sexy data
NHS IT leaders went to Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust to learn from its implementation of electronic patient records and to find out about its DevoManc plans. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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King’s picks Allscripts
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has selected Allscripts to provide its new electronic patient record, which it plans to have in place by the end of 2016.
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Hospital EPRs: Manchester trusts decide
Two hospital trusts in the Manchester region will implement different electronic patient record systems.
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East Sussex faces special measures
The Care Quality Commission has recommended that East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust be put into special measures and cites access to patient records as an area that needs improvement.
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By any other name…
The EPR team at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has named their baby Elsa Penelope Rose. Two years on from her birth, Thomas Meek goes to see how she is developing.
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Southern trusts paid £27m tech funding
More than £27 million in central funding has been paid to 19 NHS trusts and organisations as part of the Southern Local Clinical Systems Programme
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