Braintree Community Hospital picks TPP
Braintree Community Hospital is to go live with TPP’s Community Hospital module when it opens for business this spring, TPP has announced. The new community hospital, run by a partnership between NHS and private providers operating as Braintree Clinical Services, will become the seventh community hospital to take TPP’s Community Hospital module following its launch […]
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Records rules ‘bent’ in Nottingham
A report into inconsistencies in thousands of patient records at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has revealed that pressures to meet government targets led to “bending of the rules.” According to the report, which was commissioned by NHS East Midlands following discrepancies that were identified by the chief executive of the trust last year, almost […]
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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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That’ll BI lovely
North Bristol NHS Trust won the excellence in healthcare information management category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT.
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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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Luton integrates with Ensemble
Luton and Dunstable NHS Foundation Trust has started using InterSystems Ensemble to integrate its applications in preparation for the Lorenzo electronic patient record system.
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IT rules
Sarah Bruce goes to King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s annual IT open day – and is surprised to find that a lot of its staff have had the same idea.
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Newham plans next steps with Cerner
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust says it is planning to use its Cerner Millennium system to deliver integrated patient care pathways.
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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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