Border control
Neil Versel finds out what barriers still need to be overcome before electronic health record sharing becomes common between European countries.
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NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project
Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record patient hospital discharge information, which will then become available to GPs. The project, which will use Capula’s Oasis patient administration software, forms part of NHS Fife’s electronic health record programme known as HOISS (Healthcare Organisations […]
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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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Web-based pharmacy first at Tameside
Tameside General Hospital in Lancashire has become the first to implement a new web-based pharmacy solution from Ascribe. The new solution enables users to raise requests for prescriptions to the hospital pharmacy through authorised web-access points. Ascribe says the main benefits are considerable time-savings and further reductions in errors, also that solution also marks a major […]
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Healthy optimism?
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT’s progress, and how far it covers clinicians’ concerns.
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City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the specification and development of a new module by US vendor, Meditech, which has been extensively anglicised for the UK, plus a programme of business change by clinical staff. David Miller, business manager for pharmacy at […]
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Relations between Accenture and CfH chill
Relations between NHS Connecting for Health and Accenture one of its prime contractors appeared to have chilled considerably this week following the firm’s Tuesday announcement that it was making a further $450m provision against losses on its two NHS IT contracts due to growing delivery delays, partly caused by late delivery of software from its […]
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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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COPD in Carlisle
Wendy McLellan of Tunstall explains how a telecare project for COPD in Carlisle is helping keep reduce costs through proactive patient management.
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First for Carecast
UCLH is the first in the capital to have IDX’s CareCast up and running. E-Health Insider finds out how the newly-built hospital is taking to the system.
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