Dudley use Ardentia to hit 18 week milestone
Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS expects to reach the government’s 18 week referral-to-treatment target six months early partly thanks to use of software to track patient pathways. The trust has already met the national March targets of 90% for non-admitted patients and 85% for admitted patients to be treated within a maximum of 18 weeks […]
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Data loss prompts Dudley to spend on security
The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust will spend £135,000 on new computer security software, following the theft of a laptop containing personal information on over 5,000 outpatients. A trust spokesperson confirmed to E-Health Insider that following a board meeting called to discuss the theft of the laptop, the trust has decided to purchase and […]
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Dudley rolls out digital dictation
The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is to deploy WinScribe digital dictation across the trust in a bid to reduce document turnaround times and improve efficiencies. Working with healthcare digital dictation and speech recognition solutions specialists SRC, over 350 users at the trust will be given the new equipment and full training before the […]
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Patient records found on drive sold on eBay
Some NPfIT PAS systems barely used
A number of Connecting for Health funded patient administration systems installed in primary care and community trusts, are only being used by a handful of staff.
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Dudley nurses use workflow software to cut paperwork
Nurses at the Dudley Hospitals in the West Midlands are using Siemens’ embedded workflow engine, Soarian, to sort their nursing documentation and their work lists electronically. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference, Sarah Gibson-Jones, the EPR clinical project lead at the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, said that the trust felt a need to […]
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Oasis chosen by Dudley as preferred PAS application
Dudley Hospital NHS Trust and Siemens Medical Solutions have selected Capula Healthcare to supply and implement its Oasis Patient Administration System (PAS), as part of the ongoing Private Finance Initiative project at the trust. Siemens has worked with Dudley under a PFI deal for four years to provide new IT systems and digital imaging. The […]
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Singapore’s National Healthcare Group buys Soarian
Siemens Medical Solutions has signed a major deal with Singapore’s National Healthcare Group (NHG) for an enterprise-wide implementation of its next generation Soarian electronic patient record (EPR) solution. NHG, one of Sinapore’s two public healthcare provider networks, will implement the full Soarian Electronic Patient Record system over the next two years, including the Computerised Clinician […]
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Getting ready for the leap forward
With the National Programme for IT now geared up for delivery, Paul Charnley, regional implementation director for the North West and West Midlands cluster, spoke to E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma…
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Dudley Chooses Siemens for PACS
Siemens Medical Solutions have been awarded the contract to provide the latest imaging and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) technology for Dudley Hospital NHS Trust’s new PFI-build hospital currently under construction. Siemens Healthcare Services is the managed technology service provider for the 40-year PFI contract. Acting on behalf of the trust the company managed […]
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