iSoft to develop medication management
iSoft has announced that it will develop its own medication management solution, which will be embedded within Lorenzo. The announcement comes after IBA, iSoft’s Australian parent company, entered into a $15m agreement to acquire Hatrix, a provider of electronic medication management solutions for acute and community healthcare providers. The company says it will use Hatrix’s expertise […]
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Winchester deploys new e-prescribing system
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust deployed a hospital wide e-prescribing system in just four days. The trust decided that its old e-prescribing system was outdated and chose JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration solution to replace it. Damien Kelly, the trust’s lead pharmacist electronic prescribing and pharmacy systems IT manager said: “The usual approach […]
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InterQual to manage care across Rotherham
Rotherham Health and Social Care Economy Partnership is deploying an evidence-based decision support and care management system developed and widely-used in the US. The partnership between Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Rotherham, and Rotherham Social Services was developed in July 2008, to meet national imperatives to use health services appropriately. It is now rolling out […]
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Best Practice online
The BMJ is launching an online point-of-care decision support tool that aims to provide immediate access to expert opinion, guidelines and the latest evidence. Best Practice has been built for doctors and clinicians to use as they are working with patients. It aims to deliver information in “bite-size chunks” to people in settings such as […]
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Clinical Solutions gets a Mentor
Clinical Solutions has signed a three year deal with primary care IT supplier EMIS to integrate EMIS’s Mentor drug database into its decision support software. The deal means the Mentor Drug Database Module will be integrated into Clinical Solutions’ IntefleCS Face to Face software, providing access for clinicians working in urgent care centres, walk-in centres […]
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On the right pathway
The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health looks at the work of the award winning NHS Pathways team.
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Review calls for shake-up of pathology
The Department of Health should put in place IT connectivity for NHS pathology services as a matter of priority, a two-year review has concluded. The review of pathology services, chaired by Lord Carter of Coles, calls for DH electronic order communications pilots for primary care to be rolled out as soon as possible and suggests […]
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Philips scores top in patient monitoring
Royal Philips Electronics says its customers have rated Philips Healthcare in first place in overall service performance for Patient Monitoring Systems in a US survey carried out by IMV ServiceTrak. In the independent survey, customers were asked to rate patient monitoring systems manufacturers on a number of criteria. The 2008 US survey scores Philips in […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 13.11.2008
The E-Health Insider industry round up returns to cover system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Three London trusts automate medical supply systems Omnicell and its UK distributor Aventec have announced that two London foundation trusts have jointly selected OmniSupplier cabinet systems to improve their management of medical […]
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Elsevier launches German version of MD Consult
Elsevier has announced the launch of DoctorConsult the German language version of its MD Consult clinical decision support tool. Elsevier says the launch forms part of its focus on developing interactive clinical reference and clinical decision support (CDS) tools to new European markets. The company says the German DoctorConsult product is the first of a […]
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