Stoke Mandeville taps into spinal software
Staff at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital will be able to keep track of all records electronically, after the trust signed with IMS Maxims to implement its specialist Spinal Cord Injuries software. The software has been developed with the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, where it has been live for over […]
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E-discharge summaries needed, says GPs
GPs have called for better uptake of electronic discharge summaries to overcome the severe delays and quality issues that many experience with paper-based systems. A survey by the NHS Alliance of 650 practices revealed that 70 per cent of practices experience severely delayed discharge summaries either very regularly or fairly regularly, with delays of six […]
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Electronic hospital discharge summary rolls out
Gloucestershire hospitals have come up with an answer to the age-old problem of getting discharge information over to GPs quickly when a patient goes home. The hospitals’ newly-installed Info-flex system from Chameleon Information Management Services (CIMS) collects the relevant clinical data and produces a discharge summary. The summary is sent electronically via the Anglia Healthcare messaging […]
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Weston goes live with Cerner
Weston Area Health NHS Trust has become to the second NHS trust in the South of England to begin to use clinical software from Cerner under the £12.4bn National Programme for IT. The trust confirmed to E-Health Insider that it had introduced the “initial stage” of the new software system over the last weekend in […]
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GPs receive summaries for discharged stroke patients
GPs are to receive specialised electronic discharge summaries for stroke patients treated in Manchester Royal Infirmary, thanks to templates developed by two specialist clinicians implemented by Medisec Software. Consultant stroke physician Dr Ganesh Subramanian and GP Dr Helen Hosker, who has a special interest in older people’s service development, devised the specialist discharge summary, which […]
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PCTs start transferring patient records by CD
Practices from two primary care trusts in Hertfordshire are about to start transferring patients records on CD, ahead of the arrival of the national GP2GP record transfer project. St Albans & Harpenden and Hertsmere PCTs have set up a system that allows practices to send and receive CD-ROMs holding the entire patient record including attachments. […]
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Manchester hospitals link up with GPs
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically exchanged between hospitals and GP practices, providing overnight delivery of patient discharge information when they leave hospital. Using software from clinical correspondence specialists Medisec, the system provides electronic links will be used between all the […]
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Mixed feelings from GPs in new survey on NPfIT
A new survey of GPs shows a widespread dislike of Choose and Book, but optimism that the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) will bring improvements in clinical care in the longer term. There were concerns, too, about patient privacy with 71% of GP respondents saying that the NHS Care Records Service would mean the confidentiality […]
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Cancer case repository launched to aid research
A new cancer case repository that is able to extract information from the wide variety of sources in an electronic healthcare record and make them available to academic researchers and clinicians has been launched as the first major output of the Clinical e-Science Framework (CLEF). Professor Alan Rector, director of CLEF, an e-Science project funded […]
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Hospital reports over 2,600 e-referrals per month
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is receiving over 2,600 electronic referrals a month using software that slots into Microsoft Word and replaces the print button, according to manufacturers Medisec. The e-referral system links 33 surgeries in northwest England and Wales to the hospital. GPs send the referrals to the hospital using a ‘Send […]
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