Birmingham reboots central care record
A “proof of concept” trial for a Birmingham central care record is underway, following an overhaul of the troubled project.
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Birmingham rethinks failed record plan
Plans to establish a Birmingham central care record have been cut back and given to a new organisation, after the region’s GP leaders raised concerns.
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Health CIO profile: Daniel Ray
The director of informatics at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has the affinity for a data set that a composer has for a piano. He spoke to Sam Sachdeva.
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Birmingham develops benchmark tool
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has helped to create an international hospital benchmarking tool to understand variations in healthcare systems across the globe.
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Birmingham spends £7m on paediatric EPR
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will use £3.3m from the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ to create a paediatric e-prescribing system as part of its electronic patient record project.
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Birmingham LMC objects to shared record
GP leaders in Birmingham have serious concerns about the region’s Central Care Record project to share patient information across health and social care.
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17 orgs tender for central care record
Seventeen health and social care organisations across Birmingham, Sandwell and Solihull have gone out to tender for a joint central care record system.
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‘Empty plinth’ to fill at EHI Live 2013
EHI Live 2013 has an ‘empty plinth’ in its conference programme; like its famous counterpart in London’s Trafalgar Square, the occupants of the platform will be filled after public debate and discussion.
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Examining: University Hospitals Birmingham
In the first of a series of features looking at the decisions that trusts are making as England’s PACS/RIS market refresh gathers pace, Daloni Carlisle asks why Birmingham has moved to Agfa.
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Birmingham rolls out Safe Mobile Care
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust is rolling out the Safe Mobile Care system to hundreds of patients living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure.
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