MPs say EPRs essential but delivery in doubt
Electronic patient record systems are vital to the future of healthcare in England, but there remain big questions and concerns…
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Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has begun piloting iSoft’s iCM clinical management system on two wards, five years after they signed a ten-year deal with the supplier. The trust first signed a contract with iSoft in October 2002, just before the National Programme for IT began in earnest and have been sporadically working on implementing […]
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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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Caresteam completes PACS rollout in Paris
Carestream Health has completed a Euros 8m project to install PACS across 20 sites of the Assistance Publique Des Hopitaux De Paris (APHP), a French public healthcare group. The group wanted to move away from old film techniques and move to digital imaging in as many of their sites as possible. After going out to […]
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Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out
Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management system into 16 hospitals in Northern Ireland. As part of the project Newgate have begun work on piloting their theatre electronic patient record (EPR) software, a system called Nexus, at the Belfast City Hospital. The […]
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Moorfields goes live with locally developed EPR
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London has gone live with a new electronic patient record (EPR) system developed by the trust together with Stalis and supported by Intersystems. The new EPR, known at the trust as the Moorfields Care Record Management Service (MCRS) is a highly specialised EPR designed to meet the particular […]
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60 Seconds Interview: Neil Kirby
Continuing with our series of articles focusing on the people behind NHS IT, Joe Fernandez interviews Neil Kirby, an Electronic Patient Record pharmacist at the Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust.
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Fulsome praise for departing CfH boss
The news that Richard Granger is to leave Connecting for Health and the helm of the NHS IT Programme later this year has elicited a clutch of glowing tributes from some of the most senior industry and NHS executives he has worked with over the past five years. Over the weekend Granger received effusive praise and statements […]
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how the company is planning to tackle the UK hospital electronic patient record market.
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