Ealing improves discharge with SRC
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust in London is using a electronic discharge summary solution from SRC to deliver discharge summaries to GPs within 24 hours of patients leaving hospital.
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Hillingdon gets SRC discharge summaries
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust has signed a deal with SRC to implement the company’s electronic discharge summary. The web-based clinical information management system will give doctors and pharmacists the ability to send accurate, legible discharge summaries and prescriptions to a GP within 24 hours of a patient leaving hospital. The trust selected SRC following a competitive […]
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Staffs gets Medisec discharge summaries
A Staffordshire hospital is using software from clinical correspondence specialist Medisec Software to deliver discharge documents to GPs within 24 hours. University Hospital of Staffordshire is using an electronic template developed by Medisec Software to gather clinical information during a patient’s hospital stay. This is then sent electronically to GP practices across Stoke-on-Trent and North […]
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Discharge data getting worse – Alliance
The discharge summary target The NHS Alliance says hospital discharge information has got worse over the past three years, based on the results of its latest nationwide survey of GPs. The survey found 57% of responding GPs had seen patient safety put at risk in the past year because of poor discharge information. And seven […]
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PCTI offers free software to GPs
Document management software supplier PCTI is offering its electronic document transfer software free of charge to GP practices. The company says the software, which normally sells for £750 per practice, enables trusts to send messages securely to practices and claims the offer could be worth £3m to the NHS. PCTI said some GP practices were […]
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Kainos launches EDMS from Ipswich trial
Consulting company Kainos and infrastructure software provider Autonomy have launched an electronic document management system following a successful implementation at Ipswich Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Graphnet consortia completes ITK tests
The discharge summary target Graphnet has announced that its consortium of IT suppliers has successfully completed proof of concept witness testing for NHS Connecting for Health’s standards for electronic discharge summaries. The standards have been developed as part of CfH’s Interoperability Toolkit and were published in January, with the aim of completing proof of concept projects […]
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PCTI delivers to GPs in Herefordshire
The discharge summary target NHS Herefordshire is delivering discharge summaries and radiology report messages to its 24 GP practices using software from document management specialists PCTI. The primary care trust said it wanted a solution to send discharge summaries from all inpatient wards at Hereford Hospital and radiology reports from the hospital’s Carestream radiology information […]
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Acute trusts go-live with Bluespier EDS
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have gone live with a new electronic discharge system from Bluespier. The company says it has worked closely with the two trusts, which have been customising the module for their own use. It is linked with the admission and discharge processes on the trusts’ patient […]
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CQC raises discharge concerns
Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according to the Care Quality Commission’s report on the state of care in England.
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