Healthcare IT news in brief
This week’s round-up includes the news that Gloucestershire Hospitals has again delayed its TrakCare EPR go-live and North Staffordshire hopes to deploy CSC’s Lorenzo EPR in 2017.
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Coventry makes moves to reduce paper
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is sending letters electronically to all GPs in its local area and deploying electronic blood tracking as part of its efforts to become paperless by 2016.
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East Kent uses Bloodhound on iPods
Staff at East Kent University NHS Foundation Trust will use Apple iPods at the bedside to match patients with blood products using its new Bloodhound system.
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Oxford pilots decision support
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is piloting electronic ordering linked with decision support to reduce inappropriate use of blood products.
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Ready, teddy, go
EHI news editor Rebecca Todd visited Oxford to find out what bad karma, hugging teddies, and the Welsh rugby team have to do with a major NHS IT go-live.
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Nottingham deploys Bloodhound
Two trusts sign blood tracking deal
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust have signed a deal with MSoft for its blood tracking systems.
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Royal Hants deploys MSoft bloodtracking
The Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester has begun rolling out a blood tracking system from Msoft across 20 of its wards. MSoft will provide a web-based, electronic tracking system that will control staff access to blood fridges and provide a bedside management system to match barcoded blood units to barcoded patient wristbands. Dr Shaun Webb, […]
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Liverpool tracks blood with MSoft
The Royal Liverpool and Broad Green University Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with a bespoke blood tracking system from MSoft.
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Paperless without a PAS
Sarah Bruce talks to Stephen Parsons, IM&T projects manager at Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust.
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