Royal Brompton to pilot EPMA and EDM
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust will run pilots of its Medchart electronic prescribing and medicines administration system and Kainos Evolve electronic document management system before the end of March.
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HSCIC ‘chipping away’ at NME exit plans
Progress is being made in managing the transition away from local service provider contracts in the North, Midlands and East of England, the Health and Social Care Information Centre has said.
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Sheffield picks suppliers for portal
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has announced it will use HP, Orion and Imprivata to create a clinical portal that will give its staff single sign-on access to trust IT systems.
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Royal Brompton takes Lorenzo
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust has agreed a deal with CSC to deploy its Lorenzo and Medchart systems.
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Barnsley live with Lorenzo
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with its Lorenzo electronic patient record system, saying the transition “has not been completely painless.”
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NME move off CSC contracts ‘huge risk’
The transition away from local service provider contracts in the North, Midlands and East is a huge risk that will need to be carefully managed, Mary Barber, who is leading the transition for the HSCIC, has warned.
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Salisbury tenders for EPR
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for an integrated electronic patient record system.
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Leeds takes EPMA from CSC
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £1.8m contract with CSC for its Medchart electronic prescribing and medicines administration system.
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Sheffield to spend £33m on Lorenzo
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the tenth trust to sign up to take the Lorenzo electronic patient record system from CSC and estimates the project will cost £33m over ten years.
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UCLH RIS gets emergency upgrade
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has carried out an emergency upgrade of its aging radiology information system to resolve a backlog in imaging caused by system issues.
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