NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets
Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure needed to achieve service transformation and support greater efficiency and patient safety, a session at HC2006 heard. The panel discussion led by the Intellect Healthcare Group looked at Intellect forecasts which show actual NHS spending […]
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St Mary’s goes live with JAC pharmacy management
St Mary’s NHS Trust has become the second trust in London to go live with a new pharmacy management system from JAC Computer Services Ltd, supplied by BT Capital Care Alliance. The new pharmacy system has been supplied to the trust as an additional service by BT CCA, the local service provider for the NHS […]
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Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire
Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK, has announced that he will retire this summer. In 1997, Burns was seconded by the Department of Health for 15 months as head of information management and technology at the NHS Executive with a remit to […]
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Great Ormond Street implements electronic prescribing
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has begun implementation of JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System. The new EPMA system now provides clinicians at the trust with software for the electronic prescribing and administration of medicines on a nephrology ward, and work has now begun on introducing the system into other wards […]
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Community nurses to start e-prescribing pilot in 2006
Community nurses are to take part in NHS Connecting for Health pilots of electronic nurse prescribing early next year. Barbara Stuttle, Connecting for Health’s clinical lead for community nurses, told EHI Primary Care that community staff such as district nurses and health visitors would be provided with laptops and handheld computers as part of the […]
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Study shows doctors use PDAs more for admin than care
Doctors in the US are not generally making use of PDAs to improve patient care, and those that do use handheld devices tend to stick to administrative rather than clinical tasks, according to a new survey. Forrester Research and the American Medical Association interviewed 1,331 medics and found that although 57% owned PDAs — more […]
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Europe making progress to eHospitals
A major new survey of IT use in almost 900 European hospitals, including 73 in the UK, has found that their number one priority for IT investment is in document management systems, to help manage paper medical records and as a step towards integrated electronic medical records. The research, which was carried out by Silicon […]
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John Radcliffe develops e-prescribing for blood
John Radcliffe Hospital, part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, is developing a new electronic prescribing system for blood products to support its transfusion processes. The aim is to improve patient safety and cut inappropriate blood prescribing. The initiative is the latest step in the development of its electronic blood transfusion system, which uses […]
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Flexibility key, says Forrest
In an exclusive interview, Martyn Forrest, Regional Implementation Director for the North East of England sets out the challenges of making sure NPfIT is delivered.
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E-prescribing benefits flow for Liverpool hospital
Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust has announced the completion of e-prescribing in all but one of its in-patient clinical areas. Only the neonatal unit remains to be covered by the Meditech EP system, built with technology partners FileTek UK. The system provides total integration between the pharmacy stock system, patient prescriptions and other patient-based Meditech […]
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