EHI’s industry round up 22.12.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up includes news about the benefits that trusts are seeing from deploying new technology, launches and partnerships between leading healthcare technology companies. Trusts reaps service desk accreditation benefits The Primary Care Informatics Unit covering NHS Blackburn with Darwen and NHS East Lancashire says it has seen "tangible benefits" since […]
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Aintree sticks with System C
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new upgraded clinical information system from System C. The trust, which has used System C software for over a decade, has become the latest to upgrade to the company’s Medway Sigma Clinician’s Desktop, which is now in use across the organisation. Over 1,000 staff […]
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Mid Yorks digitises 1.9m records
Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust has begun converting more than 1.9m patient records into digital files as part of a £2.3m contract with the EDM Group. The project, which will run for two years, will see the trust convert around 72m sheets of paper by scanning and turning them into tif or pdf format. At […]
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Pennine Care orders Ardentia data warehouse
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health trust, has ordered a data warehouse system to improve its information management and reporting. The trust has chosen a mental health reporting system from Ardentia, which will enable data to be brought together from multiple sources, including inpatient and outpatient activity, referrals, review records and caseload […]
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St George’s has information InView
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has selected CACI’s InView data warehouse and Business Intelligence solution to support its bid for foundation status and the implementation of a Cerner care record system as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. InView uses a Microsoft-based data-warehouse and a Business Objects reporting and analysis front-end. […]
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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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NHS Manchester buys BI from Ardentia
NHS Manchester has deployed Ardentia’s data warehouse and patient level costing modules to replace in house legacy systems and support commissioning and provisioning. The data warehouse will collect information from the Secondary Uses Service, GP practices and the primary care trust’s provider arm, Manchester Community Health. Relevant staff will be given access to the data […]
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Bristol uses IT to underpin foundation status
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has chosen CACI’s InView data warehouse and reporting system to underpin its transition to foundation status. The new system will allow the trust to improve data quality and support 18 week pathways, Payment by Results, performance monitoring and other information demands. InView is a web-based solution that utilises Microsoft […]
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CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts
The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen within the government’s two week deadline.
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