Rotherham asks Monitor to back off
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is to ask Monitor to relax its oversight of its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record programme.
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Hinchingbrooke sends electronic letters
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust has reduced the time it takes GPs to receive trust letters from two weeks to 24 hours.
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Norfolk live with e-prescribing
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out e-prescribing on two wards in a phased deployment which will cover the whole trust.
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Mid Yorks deploys Ascribe PAS
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is live with its CaMIS patient administration system from Ascribe.
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The Rotherham moves to best of breed
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has issued a draft informatics strategy, in which it blames a failure to listen to clinicians’ views for its disastrous Meditech v6.0 implementation, and says it will now adopt a ‘best of breed’ approach to EPR.
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Doncaster picks Ascribe
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to Ascribe for its patient administration and A&E systems.
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Ade Memoire
Adrian Byrne, the IM&T director of University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, offers up his own perspective on decision making when building an EPR.
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Ascribe users told to ‘plan do, review’
“Plan, do, review” and spend more time looking at healthcare outcomes, Ascribe’s executive chairman advises users of his company’s systems.
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Saints alive
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust has spent 15 years building an IT environment that raises interesting questions about what it means to be an ‘EPR exemplar.’ Rebecca Todd went to have a look.
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Emis and Ascribe look for ‘sweet spots’
Emis and Ascribe have created a “sweet spots map” of common users to develop exemplars for their integrated care strategy.
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