Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside
Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new solution enables users to raise requests for prescriptions to the hospital pharmacy through authorised web-access points. Ascribe says the main benefits are considerable time-savings and further reductions in errors, also that solution also marks a major […]
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Major Multilex DDF update to support CfH requirements
First Databank Europe (FDBE) has completed a major upgrade to its Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) to include integration of SNOMED-CT and the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (NHS dm+d). FDBE says the new release is designed to support customers in meeting NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) requirements, including the National Care Records […]
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Victoria signs with Cerner
Australia’s state of Victoria has selected Cerner as its latest healthcare IT partner. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Under an agreement signed with the Victorian Department of Human Service’s Cerner will provide the company’s Millennium clinical IT solutions to public hospitals and clinics across Australia’s most populous state. In January iSoft was awarded […]
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CAS buys Clinical Solutions
CAS Service, the UK-based supplier of access management and clinical decision support systems for the healthcare market, has announced it is to acquire Clinical Solutions LLC, a US developer of clinical content. The price paid for Clinical Solutions was not disclosed. The deal brings together the CAS’s experience as the firm that supplies the software […]
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Newcastle goes out to tender for EPR
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to break ranks with the NHS Connecting for Health IT programme and go out to tender for a new clinical information system. The large acute trust has this month placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for a new […]
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FDBE chosen to implement dm+d guide
First Databank Europe (FDBE), the specialist provider of electronic drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support systems, has been selected by NHS Connecting for Health to author the next Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) implementation guidance. The new guide will provide support and a reference point for all systems suppliers implementing the dm+d and […]
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Ambulance service reports savings through IT
East Midlands Ambulance Service is claiming that installing a telephone assessment system and decision support tool has saved it around £1.8 million in 2005 through preventing unnecessary ambulance journeys. The TAS Odyssey system, from Plain Healthcare, helps to triage the least urgent category C calls received by the ambulance service. Despatchers put these calls […]
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Guy’s and St Thomas’ chief calls for flexibility in NPfIT
The case for introducing more flexibility into the National Programme for IT was set out this week by the chief executive of one of England’s largest NHS foundation trusts. Sir Jonathan Michael, chief executive of the Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, said that the need for the national programme was as great as […]
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Lorenzo CRS solution delayed until late 2007
The delivery of the strategic Care Record Service solution in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been confirmed as running badly late and subject to "significant delays" until at least late 2007. As a result, strategic health authorities in the area are now developing "delay mitigation plans" based on interim use of existing systems […]
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’
A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS trusts working on paper for a week after a disaster was ‘not acceptable’. Sunil Patel, development director of Accenture, LSP for the North east and Eastern regions of England, was referring to the disaster at […]
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