Ascribe trials medicine management in Manchester
A new electronic medicines management solution, developed by software provider Ascribe, is being trialled at the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The software allows medicines prescribed from the patient’s bedside to be automatically screened and recorded, then ordered and dispensed from the hospital pharmacy, which also runs Ascribe software. Mark Hindle, group project manager at Ascribe, told […]
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Meet the suppliers: Ascribe
EHI talks to Stephen Critchlow, head of healthcare IT group Ascribe, about his clinical background and future plans for consolidation.
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Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside
Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new solution enables users to raise requests for prescriptions to the hospital pharmacy through authorised web-access points. Ascribe says the main benefits are considerable time-savings and further reductions in errors, also that solution also marks a major […]
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Ascribe acquires HEIS in £6.5m deal
Healthcare solutions group, Ascribe, has acquired clinical and management information system supplier, HE Information Systems, in a £6.492m deal designed to enable Ascribe to “restructure its efforts in line with the opportunities offered by the delays in the National Programme for IT.” HE Information Systems (HEIS) supplies software to 21 hospitals within the NHS, many […]
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Ascribe buys Jade Health
Acquisitive Bolton-based health IT group Ascribe has bought Jade Health from Jade Software Corporation, extending its product into mental health, and providing it with a presence in the Australasian market. Jade Health provides IT solutions to 24 hospitals and health service organisations in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. Under the terms of the agreement, […]
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Contract success for Ascribe
Health IT software company Ascribe has announced it has been awarded several new contracts in its pharmacy and primary and unscheduled care divisions, including one for a ‘super surgery’ planned for Liverpool this summer. Ascribe will be supplying a bespoke web-based healthcare IT system featuring both clinical and administrative features to Assura, a subsidiary of […]
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Ascribe buys into the PAS market
Ascribe, the healthcare IT group, today announced its entry into the patient administration system market with the acquisition of Barwick Systems in a £2m cash deal. Barwick Systems provides software to 13 hospitals around the UK, many of which also use Ascribe’s pharmacy or accident & emergency systems. Ascribe said: “This acquisition enables Ascribe to […]
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Ascribe moves into A&E
Ascribe Plc has announced that it has acquired A&E specialist software company Footman Walker Ltd for £2.6 million. Footman Walker is a supplier of information systems to hospital Accident and Emergency Departments and minor injuries units. According to Ascribe the firm’s software is used in 30% of A&E departments within the UK NHS. The purchase […]
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Ascribe seeks AIM listing
Medicines management software specialist, Ascribe is poised to seek a listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and raise £5.5m to develop the company. Ascribe, which was established in 1989, expects to have a stock market capitalisation of about £20m. Managing director, Stephen Critchlow, a former hospital pharmacist, confirmed to E-Health Insider that the funds raised by […]
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Ascribe recruits former Torex CEO
Manchester-based pharmacy and electronic prescribing systems supplier Ascribe has appointed former Torex Health chief executive Steve Garrington as its commercial director to launch its web-based clinical software. Ascribe says that its suite of pharmacy software has already won over 50 per cent share of the UK market while its electronic prescribing solutions have been adopted […]
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