Large scale MiSys EPR goes live in Saudi
Saudi Arabia’s National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), the healthcare facility for the Saudi Arabian military police, has gone live with an electronic patient record system from IT solutions firm Misys. Misys CPR will cover members of the National Guard and their dependents. The company claims that the system will be one of the biggest clinical […]
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Electronic decision support for US veterans
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to introduce a new computer system at all its 158 medical centres to help patients make more informed decisions about their care. VA’s ‘Electronic Support for Patient Decisions’ initiative will use customised software called iMedConsent to provide patients with information about treatment options and standardise procedures among clinicians. […]
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The future of digital imaging
The government recently announced that all acute trusts in England will move to PACS within the next three years. This is a huge undertaking both in terms of costs and especially change management…
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Paperless progress for London GUM clinics
A busy London GUM clinic network has taken the first steps to becoming completely paperless by installing a web browser-based electronic patient booking and admissions systems. Barts Hospital and the London NHS Trust’s GUM and HIV clinics have installed preView SHe (Sexual Health), a specialist system manufactured by Sysmed. It operates over a secure web […]
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Paperless hospital medication pilot launches in Australia
A hospital in Australia has become among the first in the world to install a fully paperless medication management system which covers the patient journey from diagnosis to discharge. The pilot, launched in the Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) by the Northern Territory’s Minister for Health Dr Peter Toyne, will test the MedChart software, which covers prescribing, […]
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Syntegra selects ILOG for ‘data spine’ record handling
ILOG has announced that Syntegra, the consulting and systems integration arm of British Telecom, has selected ILOG JRules, a Business Rule Management System product, to meet record handling standards mandated for the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) component of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). In December 2003 BT Syntegra was awarded £620m, 10-year […]
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Renal Services NSF information strategy published
The Department of Health has published its information strategy to help support delivery of the National Service Framework (NSF) for renal services. Local Service Providers (LSPs) and the National Application Service Provider providing the Data Spine project will have a central role to play in ensuring the success of the strategy. The new information strategy […]
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NHS deals just the start, say Forrester
The NHS’s deals on clinical applications are just a prelude to a much wider adoption these technologies according to US analysts, Forrester Research. In a list of the top 10 healthcare predictions for 2004, Forrester forecasts that 2004 will mark the shift of IT attention from back office to the clinical examination room in a […]
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Fears of patient abuse of e-mail not realised
Doctors’ fears that an e-mail consultation service would be abused turned out to be unfounded, the International e-Health Association Conference in London heard. Dr Paul C. Tang, Chief Medical Information Officer at the Paolo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), California, said that there had been concern about introducing a facility on the foundation’s web service, PAMF […]
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Leeds trust wins technology award
Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust has won the BT-sponsored Health Service Journal Award for “Improving Care with e-Technology” with a project that succeeded in making e-commerce work and contributed benefits worth £425,000 in its first year. The trust says that the project, E-Commerce in Action, is allowing its procurement service to link and streamline all its […]
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