Bournemouth e-discharges arrive by post
A Southern trust is completing 99% of its discharge summaries electronically, but issues with sending them directly to GPs mean it is printing and posting them as well.
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E-discharge ‘increases drug errors’
A study of an in-house e-discharge project has found that drug error rates increased rather than decreased after it was introduced.
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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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SRC and Bluewire e-discharge summary
SRC and Bluewire Technologies have announced a partnership to provide healthcare organisations with web-based clinical information solutions. The first result of the partnership is an electronic discharge summary that SRC will market and deploy to the NHS, alongside its digital dictation, voice recognition and document production products. The partners claim the eDischarge Summary will help […]
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Stalis standalone e-discharge summary
Stalis has launched a clinical e-discharge solution to allow NHS trusts that do not have discharge summary functionality built into their patient administration system to produce immediate summaries for patients. The company has made the CareXML/eDS product available after finding that many trusts are unlikely to hit the government’s April 2010 target for delivering discharge […]
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Cheshire trusts send e-discharge letters
Three acute trusts are delivering electronic discharge letters to almost 90 GP practices using a shared IT solution that plugs into existing computer systems. Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust has led the initiative, which uses the MedisecNET electronic delivery system from Medisec Software. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Cheshire […]
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Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment: part two
In July, E-Health Insider visited Benenden Hospital in Kent, as it prepared to deploy an Oasis electronic patient record system. Barry Murphy provides a progress update.
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Walsall begins in-house e-discharge project
Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between the hospital and local GP practices. Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust’s associate director of IT business change, Maggie Craddock, said: “This was something we chose to do in-house in advance of the national NHS Connecting for […]
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Opening the book
What does the industry think of the proposed CfH supplier catalogue? E-Health Insider gauges the response.
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