Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has disbanded its Care Records System team and will implement a system from Ascribe instead. Following Fujitsu’s exit from the National Programme for IT, the trust decided to use its contingency plans to consolidate all of its existing systems into a single system known as ePEX […]
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Portsmouth deploys electronic document management
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has fully deployed an electronic document management system, using barcodes to store information on the location of paper records that have to be kept for legal reasons. The trust deployed the EDM system in May this year, after two years of piloting. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo in London earlier […]
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Royal Berkshire ‘saves £1m’ with e-rostering
New workforce management software has helped the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust to save more than £1m in the system’s first year of operation. Optimize-Roster, a new e-rostering system developed by HR software specialist Powertec jointly with the trust, interfaces with the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR). It enables staff to enter shift requests directly […]
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IBA boss says corner turned on iSoft
Six months after his company bought iSoft, Gary Cohen, chairman of Australia’s IBA Health, speaks to E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma.
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Scottish doctors angry over e-health cuts
Doctors at the Scottish BMA conference have expressed concerns over the Scottish government’s decision to cut £5m from the e-health budget earlier this year. The move, which was announced by the government in February in order to recruit more police officers, has angered Scottish doctors, who say it could endanger patients. Dr Stuart Scott, chairman […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 25.04.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 25 April 2008 featuring supplier news, appointments and awards. Supplier news Sussex HIS use new e-learning for staff training Sussex Health Information Service (HIS) is using e-learning training services from ILX Group to make significant savings and enhancing training provision for its 400 staff. The […]
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Norfolk and Norwich cuts sign-on in A+E
Norfolk and Norwich University Healthcare NHS Trust has implemented a new single sign-on framework, which will enable clinical users to log onto all software applications using one password. The trust will implement single sign-on software from Imprivata, to be installed by Enline, across its busy A&E department in an effort to reduce time spent on […]
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NHS Scotland rolls out document management
All NHS boards in Scotland are to use Version One’s document management and imaging software, as part of a drive to achieve shared services throughout NHSScotland, with the aim of achieving £3m annual savings. Systems are being implemented in five consortia groups covering all 22 NHS boards, which will integrate Version One’s software into existing […]
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NPfIT progress so far
Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the NHS National Programme for IT.
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Misys Healthcare to merge with Allscripts
Misys, the UK-based IT software group, is to merge its healthcare division with smaller US rival, Allscripts to create a larger specialist provider of clinical software and services for the US primary – or ambulatory – healthcare market. In a deal worth almost £500m, Misys will combine Misys Healthcare with Allscripts to create Allscripts-Misys Healthcare […]
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