EHI’s industry round-up 01.10.2010
Derby NHS Trust gets EDS from Sunquest ICE Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a deal with Sunquest ICE so it can use its electronic discharge summary solution across NHS Derby City and NHS Derbyshire County. ICE allows medical staff to compile discharge letters and then dispatch them electronically to GPs. The trusts has […]
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Ealing improves discharge with SRC
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust in London is using a electronic discharge summary solution from SRC to deliver discharge summaries to GPs within 24 hours of patients leaving hospital.
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Hillingdon gets SRC discharge summaries
The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust has signed a deal with SRC to implement the company’s electronic discharge summary. The web-based clinical information management system will give doctors and pharmacists the ability to send accurate, legible discharge summaries and prescriptions to a GP within 24 hours of a patient leaving hospital. The trust selected SRC following a competitive […]
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Worcestershire expects to save with ITK
Worcestshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is expecting to save more than £100,000 after implementing an electronic discharge summary system from Bluespier using interoperability toolkit standards.
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Royal Devon and Exeter selects System C
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has chosen System C as its supplier for order communications and electronic prescribing, as key elements of a new electronic patient record system.
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Stalis standalone e-discharge summary
Stalis has launched a clinical e-discharge solution to allow NHS trusts that do not have discharge summary functionality built into their patient administration system to produce immediate summaries for patients. The company has made the CareXML/eDS product available after finding that many trusts are unlikely to hit the government’s April 2010 target for delivering discharge […]
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CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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Concerns raised over corporate use of NHSmail
Concerns about the future direction of the NHS’s private email service have ben raised after it was used for the first time for a corporate broadcast by the Department of Health on future policy plans. The message from health minister Lord Darzi on his proposed reforms of the NHS was sent out to all 180,000 […]
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Guernsey awards EPR contract to TrakHealth
The Health & Social Services Department of Guernsey has awarded TrakHealth a ten-year deal to provide all healthcare providers on the island with an integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system. The integrated EPR, based on a system called TrakCare, will be used to support the delivery of comprehensive health and social care services to the […]
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Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact
NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact, the web-based e-mail service it procured for the health service at a total cost of up to £90m. At Healthcare Computing 2006 last month CfH chief executive Richard Granger castigated NHS trusts for not fully […]
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