Milton Keynes first on Microsoft Amalga
Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust has become the first UK customer for Microsoft’s healthcare data aggregation platform.
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Call for Toolkit discharge standards
NHS Connecting for Health has invited suppliers to help develop and test standards for electronic discharge summaries in an extension to its interoperability toolkit programme.
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NHS Stockport implements Lorenzo R1
NHS Stockport has become the seventh site to implement iSoft’s Lorenzo electronic patient record system. The primary care trust has gone live with Lorenzo Regional Care Release One (LRC 1) clinical documentation model. This is being used by a community rehabilitation therapy team, following an implementation from local service provider, CSC, under The National Programme for […]
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SRC and Bluewire e-discharge summary
SRC and Bluewire Technologies have announced a partnership to provide healthcare organisations with web-based clinical information solutions. The first result of the partnership is an electronic discharge summary that SRC will market and deploy to the NHS, alongside its digital dictation, voice recognition and document production products. The partners claim the eDischarge Summary will help […]
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Stalis standalone e-discharge summary
Stalis has launched a clinical e-discharge solution to allow NHS trusts that do not have discharge summary functionality built into their patient administration system to produce immediate summaries for patients. The company has made the CareXML/eDS product available after finding that many trusts are unlikely to hit the government’s April 2010 target for delivering discharge […]
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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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Discharge summary target ‘to be missed’
The vast majority of NHS hospitals look set to miss the government’s target for delivering discharge summaries to GP practices within 24 hours from next April.
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Ipswich chooses Kainos for casenotes
Kainos has signed a £1m contract with Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust to convert its paper casenotes into electronic format using its electronic document records management solution (EDRM). The contract which includes licences for the core software Meridio EDRM and autonomy scanning and services for the development and implementation of the system, will see trust staff […]
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SRC and PCTI sign deal
Digital dictation and voice recognition software supplier SRC has announced that it has signed an agreement with document management specialist PCTI Solutions to enable NHS trusts to deliver electronic documents to GP surgeries. The agreement means PCTI’s Electronic Document Transfer solution, which captures documents from hospital systems and transfers them to GP practices, has been […]
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Great Western integrates with Ensemble
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with InterSystems’ Ensemble three months after it began implementing the platform. The integration engine has allowed the trust to directly link three applications, including its electronic discharge summaries and infection control system, to its MedWay Patient Administration System, supplied by System C. The applications are linked […]
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