Special Report: Document Management
For many NHS trusts, electronic document management systems are a way to free up space and help improve patient pathways, but are there more benefits to be explored? Andrea Downey investigates.
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Nottingham to review digital care record due to patient safety concerns
Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust is to urgently review its £14m digital records system roll-out after consultants wrote to the trust medical director expressing concerns about the system and its impact on patient safety.
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Royal Liverpool records digitalised ahead of new EPR
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust have digitalised tens of thousands of records ahead of announcing a new EPR.
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iPads rolled out to ambulance staff in South East Coast
iPads will be deployed to more than 200 paramedics in Kent to help them manage and send patient electronic information remotely.
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Royal Brompton to pilot EPMA and EDM
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust will run pilots of its Medchart electronic prescribing and medicines administration system and Kainos Evolve electronic document management system before the end of March.
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Ideagen manages Central Manchester docs
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is using Ideagen software to populate its web-based electronic patient record system with scanned documents.
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Basildon puts hard figures on EMR
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is on track to save £1.6m a year through the use of an electronic medical record system.
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A very Thurrock job
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust went live with an electronic medical record system one year ago. Rebecca Todd visited the trust to hear about its progress to date.
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Countess of Chester latest Kainos site
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has started the process of digitising all of its active patient records as part of a strategy to become paperless.
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PCTI EDT reaches 1,000th practice
Document management specialist PCTI has announced the deployment of its electronic document transfer solution to 1,000 GP practices.
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