DHI snapshot report shows digital maturity of most NHS trusts remains low
Few NHS trusts are yet to reach the top levels of the HIMSS digital maturity benchmark, a new Digital Health Intelligence snapchat report has shown.
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Patient portals: How to open the digital front door to better NHS care
All non-specialist acute trusts must have procured a portal solution by September. In the light of NHS England’s mandate, Bruno Botelho, director of digital operations at a major London trust, explains how to roll out a portal that delivers huge benefits for patients and staff.
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Learning from experience: what makes for a successful IT deployment?
Deploying a core hospital system is a major undertaking for any Trust and can carry significant risk. System C has developed a standard deployment methodology, based on over 25 years of tried and tested experience leading to a 100% success rate.
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NHS professionals across Fife obtain crucial data via TrakCare
NHS Fife’s acute and community hospital staff are now using real-time information to further deliver patient care after going live TrakCare.
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Trusts make PACS refresh solo effort
The lack of collaboration between trusts on picture archiving and communication systems deals is surprising, the clinical lead for the National PACS programme has said.
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South trusts tender for EDM and portal
A group of three Southern acute trusts has gone out to tender for an electronic document management system and a clinical portal.
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East Kent trials Notify
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation trust will alert medical staff in real time about acute kidney injury patients, starting this month.
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South acute group issues £60m tender
The first group of acute trusts in the South Local Clinical Systems programme has gone out to tender for a clinical information system worth up to £60m.
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£180m for South Acute
More than £80m of central funding will be available to southern NHS trusts to buy clinical IT systems as part of the South Acute programme.
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South Acute Programme approved
The outline business case for the South Acute Programme has been approved by HM Treasury and the first procurement is due to launch this summer.
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