National Rehabilitation Hospital goes live with InterSystems TrakCare
Dublin’s National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) has become the first healthcare provider in the Republic of Ireland to go live with InterSystems TrakCare.
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‘No process in place to fund’ Ireland’s Euro 850m electronic health record
A revolutionary change in Ireland’s healthcare system is on its way – but the process to fund an electronic health record proves to be a challenge.
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Doctors must respond to digital patient
Adoption of electronic records has reached a tipping point amongst doctors, but clinicians must do more to respond to digital patients, an international survey of health IT trends suggests.
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Leopardstown Park rolls out IMS Maxims
IMS Maxims has rolled out its nursing module at Leopardstown Park Hospital in Dublin. The system allows staff to record every interaction with its 200 patients, starting with details of the initial screening and assessments made on admission. It holds each person’s care plan and shows any actions that have been taken or need to be […]
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GE Healthcare invests in Ireland’s TRIL
Ireland’s Technology Research for Independent Living Centre has announced that GE Healthcare is to invest €2.25m in the research initiative.
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Irish hospital group cuts DNAs by text
St Vincent Hospital Group in Dublin has reduced its did-not-attend rate by 30% after implementing a messaging system that notifies patients of their appointments and allows them to reschedule.
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Cerner monitors CT scans at St James’s
St James’s Hospital, the largest hospital in Ireland, has implemented an electronic support system into its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record (EPR) to reduce patient exposure to radiation.
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Cerner to create 40 jobs in Ireland
US health software firm Cerner has announced it is to create up to 40 new technology support jobs in Ireland. The jobs will be created as part of a new multi-lingual software support operation, focused on the European market. The new service could create up to 40 jobs by the end of 2009, with the […]
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Over here
Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just needs time and investment ? Neil Versel reports.
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New clinic in Ireland to study ageing process
The Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) centre in Dublin, has opened a new clinic, supported by Intel and the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, which aims to discover and deliver technology solutions to support independent ageing. The clinic will be based in St James’s Hospital in Dublin, and aims to combine clinical knowledge with the […]
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