Campaign 2008
CfH clinical lead thinks future may be Lorenzo
NHS Connecting for Health’s clinical lead for hospital doctors has predicted that iSoft’s Lorenzo “could be used more” than Cerner’s Millennium in the future, as web-based technologies come to the fore. Responding to a question at this week’s Primis + conference in Nottingham, Dr Robert Pitcher confirmed that NHS organisations in the South were looking […]
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E-prescribing round table report
The National Programme for IT in the NHS and hospital boards should put e-prescribing at the top of their agendas because of the huge patient safety benefits to be gained, a round-table discussion has concluded. The round table on e-prescribing, jointly organised by E-Health Insider and the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum, brought together […]
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E-prescribing round table report
The acute sector can learn from primary care when it comes to deploying e-prescribing, a round table discussion has concluded. The round table, jointly organised by E-Health-Insider and the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum, acknowledged that prescribing in hospitals and prescribing in primary care are very different. However, participants in the event, sponsored by […]
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CSC markets Alert to the NHS
Computer Sciences Corporation has stepped up its marketing of a Portuguese electronic patient record (EPR) system called Alert to NHS trusts in the North Midlands and East of England. CSC is understood to have invested technical resources in evaluating and testing the Alert EPR over the past six months. The move comes despite ongoing delays […]
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Safer surgery tool launched by WHO
The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications and deaths. Currently, the checklist is only available on paper, but its developer Professor Atul Gawande of Harvard University, told E-Health Europe, that work was underway to create an electronic version. The checklist identifies three phases of […]
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Safer surgery checklist launched by WHO
The World Health Organisation has devised a new safety checklist designed to help cut the number of preventable surgical complications and deaths. Currently, the checklist is only available on paper, but the surgeon who developed it, Professor Atul Gawande of Harvard University, told E-Health Insider, that work was underway to create an electronic version. The checklist […]
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Inside story – ASCC
Pan-European SOS project about local interoperability
Ambitious plans to develop the e-health services to create an interoperable cross-European patient record summary and e-prescribing record were revealed yesterday.
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CfH awards 61 ASCC clinical contracts
Connecting for Health has awarded the eagerly anticipated Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework contracts for clinical information systems.
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