Norfolk and Norwich move forward with digital transformation plans
The trust has selected several companies to deliver electronic document management services in order to give clinicians access to digital patient records.
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Special Report: Electronic Document Management
Many agree that properly implemented electronic document management (EDM) could revolutionise care, however, several technological and cultural barriers remain. Can the ‘second wave of EDM’ overcome these issues? Jennifer Trueland reports.
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Isle of Man launches electronic document management
Electronic document management has gone live at the Noble’s Hospital, the latest step in the Isle of Man’s drive to fully digitise health records by 2018.
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Hyland acquires Lexmark’s EDM business, Perceptive Software
US firm Hyland is to acquire Perceptive Software, an enterprise content management business currently owned by printer maker Lexmark.
News

Enter the CCG: more thoughts on what hospitals can learn from primary care IT
With the publication of the Wachter Review, Dr John Lockley has been thinking about what secondary care could learn from primary care’s experience of digitisation. This month: what gets clinicians engaged.
CCIO Network

Special report: Electronic document management
Electronic document management may have its roots in archiving, but increasingly EDM systems are the store and delivery mechanism for unstructured content of all kinds. Kim Thomas reports.
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Special report: EDM/ Scanning
How much paper is it worth scanning as part of an electronic document management project? It’s a fraught question, but the answer seems to be ‘less than you might think’ and ‘only what you plan for’. Kim Thomas reports.
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Southern trusts to get £50m central funds before March 2019
More than £50 million in central government money is yet to be paid to southern NHS trusts to deploy new clinical IT systems before March 2019.
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North Middlesex starts 1m note scanning project
North Middlesex University Hospital has gone live with Fortrus’ Unity electronic document management system as part of its strategy to be fully digital in 2017 at the earliest.
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EDM: Southern hospitals pick Kainos
A group of three southern acute trusts has chosen Kainos to supply an electronic document management system and clinical portal in contracts worth nearly £8 million and partly funded by central government.
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