NHS ordered to halve management costs
Health secretary Andrew Lansley has scrapped some key NHS performance targets and told the health service it must save at least £222m in management costs this year.
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Ipswich develops stroke data portal
The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has developed its own software to enable staff to record patient data for stroke patients from multiple disciplines.
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Wirral goes live with Cerner
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest English NHS trust to go live with Cerner Millennium.
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Worcestershire expects to save with ITK
Worcestshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is expecting to save more than £100,000 after implementing an electronic discharge summary system from Bluespier using interoperability toolkit standards.
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EHI Interview: Kate Grimes
The chief executive of Kingston Hospital NHS Trust tells Jon Hoeksma how her trust went through a Cerner big bang.
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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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EHI’s industry round-up 30.04.10
This month’s EHI industry round-up focuses on launches, and features a new tool for integration with the NHS Spine, a new patient handover solution, a WinScribe iPhone app and an automated invoice checking solution from Sollis, among other stories. Quicksilva launches integration tool for NHS Spine Quicksilva has launched an integration tool that allows trusts […]
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EHI round-up: digital dictation
This special edition of E-Health Insider’s industry round-up focuses on digital dictation. It covers innovative and recent deployments to NHS trusts by most of the leading players in a market that really seems to be opening up. Rotherham begins trust wide digital dictation The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has started a full roll out of […]
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FoI reveals plans for SCR Release 2
Summary Care Records may be created outside general practice under NHS Connecting for Health plans, with a ‘release 2’ holding far more information.
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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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