Epic goes live at Cambridge
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with its Epic electronic patient record system as part of a £200m IT overhaul.
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CCIO profile: Afzal Chaudhry
Claire Read talks to the clinical lead for IT at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust about preparing for its Epic electronic patient record implementation.
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Three months and counting to an Epic event
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust aims to go live with its Epic electronic patient record on 25 October. But first it needs to train 7,000 staff. Lis Evenstad reports.
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Back to school
Chief clinical information officers held their second annual summer school in Cambridge last week. Sam Sachdeva asked Joe McDonald and Jon Hoeksma what went on; and found a new spirit of openness and trust had been in the air.
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What you read in 2013
For the first time in a long time, the National Programme for IT failed to provide the ‘most read’ news stories on EHI in 2013, with company news, big IT failures, big IT contracts and money attracting most interest.
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Live from Birmingham
The NHS needs to focus on transforming the way health care is delivered, rather than on technology itself, visitors to EHI Live 2013 were told. EHI news editor Rebecca Todd reports.
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An Epic test
Epic is setting exams for Cambridge’s eHospital programme. And passing is not easy, programme director Carrie Armitage tells Lis Evenstad.
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From the frontline
Andrew Carr is the clinical lead for IT at the emergency department of Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, where a major IT project is underway. He wonders why so few of his fellow nurses are involved in something as critical as healthcare IT.
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Twenty twelve
The ‘Liberating the NHS’ reforms became law, the government issued a new NHS IT strategy, CSC’s deal for the NME was on and off an finally on again, and the ICO got cross. Lyn Whitfield looks back at 2012.
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New consultancy wins Cambridge contract
A new company, EPR Works, has won the contract to project manage the eHospital programme at Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts.
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