Great Ormond Street implements electronic prescribing
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has begun implementation of JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System. The new EPMA system now provides clinicians at the trust with software for the electronic prescribing and administration of medicines on a nephrology ward, and work has now begun on introducing the system into other wards […]
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Cancer network claims time saved by teleconferencing
The Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire (SWSH) Cancer Network has upgraded its videoconferencing systems to allow members to collaborate without travelling, thus freeing up travel time to spend with patients, it says. Terminals have been installed in several hospices, allowing clinicians working in palliative care to link into cancer units. The upgrade also means that […]
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Newcastle opts for ChemoCare
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust has signed up for a chemotherapy prescribing solution which will operate across three sites and provide the foundations, if required, for deployment across the entire Northern Cancer Network. CliniSys Solutions has won the contract with its ChemoCare chemotherapy prescribing solution – a multi pharmacy application for adults, haematology and paediatrics. Dr […]
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Study shows ROI on mobile technology in NHS
A study jointly commissioned by George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and NHS Connecting for Health into the impact of mobile technology in acute clinical environments has identified significant potential time and resource savings. The findings suggest that investment in mobile networks, devices and wireless-enabled applications can deliver a measurable return on investment (ROI) for healthcare […]
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Award for time-saving medical images system
An online system that has reduced the time taken to make clinical images available to consultants from four weeks to about four minutes has won a major award for the senior clinical photographer who developed it. Simon Dove, head of medical illustration at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital won the ‘Innovation in Service Development’ category of the first […]
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Making NP fit
Access to centralised records as promised by NPfIT will force a redesign of the way information is handled in the NHS, Colin Jervis of Kinetic Consulting argues.
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Upgrade leaves practice without consultant letters
A practice has had to run consultations without access to consultants’ letters for almost a month because of an IT problem it says was created by a server upgrade for Choose and Book. Dr Paul Thornton, a GP in Kingsbury, Warwickshire, contacted EHI Primary Care this week after what he described as “extensive attempts” to […]
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Accenture signs with Agfa for PACS
Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the North East and East of England, has signed a sub-contract with Agfa to provide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to the NHS across the two regions. Connecting for Health has awarded Accenture a contract worth £235 million over nine years to June 2013, […]
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NHS telecoms fraud survey taken on by consultancy
An international consultancy company has stepped in to fill what it says is a hole in NHS telecommunications fraud prevention services created since the wind-up of the NHS Information Authority (NHSIA). Steve Mason, senior consultant at Vega, previously worked in telecoms fraud prevention at the NHSIA before it was disbanded in April. After most of the NHSIA’s responsibilities […]
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Europe-wide heart monitoring trial shows promise
The organisers of a recently completed pan-European trial aimed at finding out if telecare can be an effective tool in monitoring patients with chronic heart disease have called the project a success. Eleven centres in three countries, England, Poland and Italy, participated in the Heart Failure in Hospital and Home (HHH) trial, which was supported […]
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