Special report: Electronic Document Management
As it moves towards paperless working by the end of the decade, the NHS will need both electronic patient record and electronic document management systems. But what, exactly, is the role of EDM? And why has uptake been relatively slow?
Infrastructure
Peterborough latest to Evolve records
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is planning to have fully implemented Kainos’ Evolve electronic document management system by this autumn.
Infrastructure
Sheffield steels itself for EDM project
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has picked Restore’s CCube as its electronic document management system as part of its transformation into a digital hospital that will also see it go-live with CSC’s Lorenzo next month.
Clinical Software
Southern trusts paid £27m tech funding
More than £27 million in central funding has been paid to 19 NHS trusts and organisations as part of the Southern Local Clinical Systems Programme
Clinical Software
King’s picks Civica for EDM
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is to implement an electronic document management system to support its electronic patient record and the struggling Princess Royal University Hospital.
Clinical Software
North Middlesex moves on with Medway
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is preparing to digitise its medical records after a series of successful go-lives with its Medway electronic patient record system.
News
The vision thing
Adrian Byrne considers the impact of health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for a ‘paperless’ NHS. Is it clear what it is meant to be achieved? And will it be worth achieving?
Feature
Stockport evolves EDM use
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust has expanded its deployment of the Kainos Evolve electronic document and records management system, and plans to introduce an iPad-specific version.
News
Best of breed EPR for Royal Orthopaedic
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is developing a best of breed electronic patient record system with the help of money from the first round of NHS England’s technology fund.
News
Pennine digitises 450m paper records
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is using Kainos Evolve and EDM Group to digitise approximately 450m paper records over eight years, as it works towards removing paper case notes from the trust.
News