CircleBath paper free with System C
Bath’s newly opened CircleBath Hospital has gone live with System C’s Medway Promixa patient administration system and Alert’s touch-screen electronic patient record system.
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Bus stopping
NHS North West is telling trusts they can get off the Lorenzo bus. Sarah Bruce looks at the implications for the NME.
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Blackpool gets ‘Darzi’ style PACS
NHS Blackpool has implemented a new Agfa PACS system that enable staff working at the town’s state of the art new polyclinic to access and share diagnostic image records with staff at the local hospital trust. Implemented as an extension of Blackpool, Flyde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s existing Agfa Impax PACS, the new […]
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Going live
1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ’09.
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Blackpool: ‘All systems go for Alert’
The board of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has approved the proposal for Alert Life Sciences to become the supplier of the trust’s electronic patient record system. Philip Graham, head of IM&T, told E-Health Insider that the case for Vision – the name given to the project by trust staff – had […]
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CSC markets Alert to the NHS
Computer Sciences Corporation has stepped up its marketing of a Portuguese electronic patient record (EPR) system called Alert to NHS trusts in the North Midlands and East of England. CSC is understood to have invested technical resources in evaluating and testing the Alert EPR over the past six months. The move comes despite ongoing delays […]
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Six hospital connect on oncology with Varian
Six hospitals in the north of England have begun implementing medical oncology software from Varian Medical to help them function as one clinical network. The oncology network includes hospitals in Lancashire and Cumbria, which are rolling out Aria Medical Oncology software to fully integrate the prescribing, preparation, dispensing and administration of drugs for treating cancer. […]
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LSPs fail ‘acid test’ on PAS deployments
Delivery of the patient administration systems due to form the foundation for future electronic patient records in NHS hospitals has stalled with only a fifth of the systems promised in June actually installed. In June NHS Connecting for Health said that 22 acute NHS trusts would get new PAS systems by the end of October. […]
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IMS offers Choose and Book solution
IMS Maxims has announced the immediate availability of its Integrated Choose And Book (ICAB) system which enables NHS and independent healthcare providers with older patient administration systems to start offering date and time slots to the central Choose and Book service and take bookings by return. The system could help trusts break through the barriers […]
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