Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment: go live
Sarah Bruce catches up with Benenden Hospital’s deployment of an Oasis electronic patient record system.
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Data blindness
The latest scandal to hit the NHS was obscured for years in rows about data. Its legacy should be far better systems to capture patient experience.
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Mid Staffs death rates – poor care not poor data
A trust that tried to blame high death rates on inadequate systems for recording patient data is to be condemned for “appalling” standards by the Healthcare Commission.
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CHKS acquired by Capita for £11.6m
UK healthcare intelligence specialist CHKS has been bought by outsourcing specialist Capita Group Plc for £11.6m. CHKS specialises in providing data, coding and performance analysis services to NHS organisations. The sale was made by CHKS parent Healthcare Knowledge International, a European benchmarking performance and analysis information provider. In the financial year to 31 December 2008 […]
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DH and London move on shared services
NHS chief executive David Nicholson is encouraging the health service to make greater use of shared services as London’s primary care trusts prepare to set up their own commissioning support organisation. Nicholson wrote to trust chief executives last week to encourage them to use NHS Shared Business Services or other shared services for back-office functions. […]
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Procurement blocks innovation: report
The Policy Exchange has attacked the government for not doing enough to drive innovation in the NHS and called for a shake-up of financial incentives and procurement processes to drive new technologies and working practices into the service. The right-leaning think-tank says that as things stand, new drugs, devices and other technologies “inch” their way […]
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Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment: part two
In July, E-Health Insider visited Benenden Hospital in Kent, as it prepared to deploy an Oasis electronic patient record system. Barry Murphy provides a progress update.
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CRS problems cost Barts and the London £3m
Barts and the London NHS Trust projects a £3m shortfall in income this year due to serious data, reporting and technical problems with its new Cerner Millennium Care Records System. The new CRS system, installed by BT in April, has left the London trust unable to accurately report on inpatient and activity. As a result […]
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One in ten hospital episodes miscoded
Almost one in ten hospital episodes is incorrectly coded, according to an analysis carried out by the Audit Commission. The spending watchdog’s analysis of more than 50,000 episodes of care, equating to approximately £73m of expenditure under Payment by Results, found an average error rate of 9.4% – with error rates across trusts ranging from […]
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