Early Christmas for Kainos
Kainos’ Christmas came early last year when the company signed three NHS trusts to take its Evolve electronic medical records system in one day.
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Leicester has high hopes for 2013
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust aims to have a clinical portal and document management system in place by the end of the year.
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Southern group looks for EDM and portal
A group of three Southern acute trusts hopes to attract central funding to purchase an electronic document management system and clinical portal.
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Scottish board on road to ‘paper-lite’
NHS Dumfries and Galloway is deploying a new electronic document management system, starting with its mental health service next month.
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Civica buys Gateway Computing
Civica has increased its presence in the healthcare market with the purchase of electronic document management specialists, Gateway Computing.
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Heart of England digitises records
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust is aiming to complete a project to digitise all of its 1.7m paper patient records by 2015.
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Lancashire begins e-document project
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale in Lancashire has begun a project to digitise all its inactive health care records. The primary care trust is working with EDM Group to convert inactive paper records into digital records. The document conversion should dramatically reduce paper storage requirements. It should also help to improve the efficiency of the retrieval of inactive records, […]
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Mid Yorks digitises 1.9m records
Mid Yorkshire NHS Hospitals Trust has begun converting more than 1.9m patient records into digital files as part of a £2.3m contract with the EDM Group. The project, which will run for two years, will see the trust convert around 72m sheets of paper by scanning and turning them into tif or pdf format. At […]
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Portsmouth deploys electronic document management
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has fully deployed an electronic document management system, using barcodes to store information on the location of paper records that have to be kept for legal reasons. The trust deployed the EDM system in May this year, after two years of piloting. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo in London earlier […]
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