Millennium R0 not capturing 18 week referrals data
NHS trusts in the South of England using Cerner Millennium Release 0 are not yet able to electronically capture 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) data, one of the government’s key objectives for the NHS. Trusts have been required to report on RTT times since January, with the target to be achieved for all 18-week […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards ’07 judges appointed
Judges for the BT e-Health Insider Awards ’07 have been appointed resulting in a line-up that includes distinguished IT professionals and clinicians with an interest in health informatics. Entry for the awards is open now and the six categories offer opportunities for everyone involved in healthcare IT from the frontline to the back office to […]
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Accreditation win for Barts and London service desk
Barts and The London NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in England to win Connecting for Health accreditation to provide expert IT support to NHS organisations nationally. The accreditation allows the trust to offer 24-hour Front Line Support Services for National Programme for IT (NPfIT) Applications such as the NHS Care Records Service, […]
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BT appoints NHS veteran as London CEO
Paul White, chief executive of Barts and the London NHS Trust is to join BT as chief executive of its severly delayed London NHS IT programme. He will take up the post in the New Year. White who has been CEO of Barts and the London for five years serves on a number of national […]
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Virtual healthcare research institute launched
A group of research institutions and healthcare user groups has joined forces to form the Virtual Institute of Research in Healthcare Practice (VIRIHP). Members will work together via online discussion boards, email and telephone and video conferencing in addition to conventional face-to-face meetings twice a year. One of the institute’s objectives will be to “develop […]
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£1bn NHS electronic procurement network formed
UKprocure have announced the establishment of the NHS Trading Network (NHSTN), which brings together 53 NHS organisations nationwide in one electronic procurement system. The organisations, which include trusts in East London, Oxford, the North-East and Hampshire with a total spend of £1bn, are now banding together in an ‘eMarketplace’ in the aim of achieving savings […]
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Barts and The London chooses Ensemble for integration
Barts and The London NHS Trust has selected InterSystems’ Ensemble universal integration platform to integrate systems at its three hospitals in East London and the City. Ensemble will be used on a range of projects at the three prestigious London hospitals – The Royal London Hospital, St Bartholomew’s Hospital and The London Chest Hospital – […]
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Paperless progress for London GUM clinics
A busy London GUM clinic network has taken the first steps to becoming completely paperless by installing a web browser-based electronic patient booking and admissions systems. Barts Hospital and the London NHS Trust’s GUM and HIV clinics have installed preView SHe (Sexual Health), a specialist system manufactured by Sysmed. It operates over a secure web […]
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Pathology IT future ‘more complex than assumed’
Future developments in pathology IT are likely to be far more complex and unpredictable than current roadmaps are predicting, according to a white paper from laboratory systems specialists, Sysmed. “Only by making managed pathology networks adaptive can pathology services become agile enough to respond effectively to increasing future demand for change,” argues the paper written […]
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Barts and The London chooses Sysmed for pathology
Barts and The London NHS Trust, has selected Sysmed Solutions’ WinPath pathology laboratory information management system (LIMS) to support the modernisation of its pathology services. The new LIMS system supplied will initially link four pathology laboratories, within the Trust and at Newham and Homerton NHS hospitals. Barts and the London currently processes over two million […]
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