Using IBM Watson cognitive technology to enhance the patient experience
At Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, a focus on cognitive computing is helping to support patients as they come into hospital – supporting the creation of a hospital which can effectively think and feel, and providing the foundations for greater use of cognitive methods into the future.
AI and Analytics
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust introduces children’s app
An app which helps children during their stay at hospital has been launched at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, one of the 16 hospital digital exemplar trusts in the English NHS.
Digital Patient 1
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital frees up time to care
Nuance Dragon Medical integrated into the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit’s electronic patient record captures the patient story at the point of care. Elaine Scott, Lead Nurse within the PICU, explains how this is helping to meet its challenges.
Health CIO
Alder Hey hospital upgrades IT system
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new version of the Meditech electronic patient record.
Clinical Software
Alder Hey picks BT as strategic partner
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a £50m contract to BT as a strategic partner to improve its IT, help to implement a new electronic patient record, and prepare for a move to a new hospital.
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Burton plans Meditech v6.0
Alder Hey issues £50m tender
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has issued a £50m tender for a strategic IT partner and will implement Meditech v6.0.
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Alder Hey trials ‘bring your own device’
Alder Hey Children’s and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trusts are trialling a series of tablet computers in a ‘bring your own device to work’ scheme.
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Alder Hey projects shake-up IT
Alder Hey Children’s and Liverpool Women’s NHS foundation trusts have announced a document management project and plans to outsource their IT support, while continuing with a major EPR tender.
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Alder Hey picks JAC for e-prescribing
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is to undertake a a trust-wide roll out of JAC’s electronic prescribing and medicines administration system.
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