NoemaLife and First Databank join forces
NoemaLife and First Databank have announced a partnership aimed at reducing prescribing and medication errors, which will be piloted at two NHS trusts over coming months.
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Ade Memoire
Adrian Byrne reflects on some of the practical support and training issues that have come up with his trust’s implementation of e-prescribing; and that other trusts will have to face.
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Fourteen predictions for 2014
EHI asked a wide range of healthcare IT experts to look ahead to 2014 – in 140 characters or fewer. They picked policy change, tech fund success, and the demise of the onsie as issues to watch…
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Rising star: Cat Grant
A trust head of commercial ICT tells Lis Evenstad how a yellow belt in Thai Boxing got her started in her career.
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£50m of tech fund rolled over
Around £50m of the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ will be rolled over into ‘tech fund 2’ because projects could not meet deliverability targets.
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ROI demands delay tech fund
An announcement of allocations from the £260m ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards’ Technology Fund is being delayed by stringent Treasury demands on the Return on Investment trusts must deliver, EHI understands.
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North Staffs buys Oasis e-prescribing
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Oasis Medical Solutions for its e-prescribing system.
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Birmingham to offer PICS licence-free
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust will offer its Prescribing Information and Communication System to the NHS on a licence-free basis instead of “open-sourcing” it.
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Mental health trust appoints CCIO
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has appointed a consultant psychiatrist as chief clinical information officer.
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Lincs trust starts paperless prescribing
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with e-prescribing on two wards at its Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby.
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