Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out
Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly when a patient goes home. The hospitals’ newly-installed Info-flex system from Chameleon Information Management Services (CIMS) collects the relevant clinical data and produces a discharge summary. The summary is sent electronically via the Anglia Healthcare messaging […]
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E-mail mentoring to help budding nurses
The University of East Anglia has set up an e-mail mentoring programme to help 14-15 year-olds from deprived backgrounds who have expressed an interest in entering nursing and other health professions realise their dreams. Students from UEA’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, along with students from the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice and […]
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Norfolk hospital gets electronic cancer care system
A hospital in East Anglia has installed an electronic cancer management system in its oncology department, which is designed to bring greater efficiency, greater patient throughput and reduced waiting times. Until now, the software has not been available in Europe. The Colney Centre at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is using VARiS MedOncology from Varian Medical Systems, […]
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TeesPath and CSW launch lab-links project
County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority (CDTV SHA) has signed a contract with CSW to use its CaseNotes product to link together the information contained in the pathology systems locally. The aim is to reduce inefficiencies and improve access of information to clinicians. The contract, brokered through the local Clinical Network of Pathology services […]
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Harrogate GPs get order communications
GPs in Harrogate are now able to request pathology tests online using an order communications system implemented by Anglia Healthcare Systems and EMIS. The new system enables test requests ordered by GPs and the subsequent reports generated to be electronically linked to secondary care systems and integrated into the GP patient record. Roll out of […]
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NHS Direct “Will More than Double” by 2006
NHS Direct is set to more than double in size, handling 16 million calls by 2006. The service is also due to launch a personal health organiser on its Internet service, NHS Direct Online, to enable members of the public to store key health information. Announcing the plans, health minister, John Hutton, said, “NHS Direct […]
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by other partners in the local health economy. Called the Joint Clinical Information System project, the project is being run by three project partners – Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the […]
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