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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Homerton switches to speech recognition in radiology
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a new Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition system into its radiology department. The North-east London trust had been operating a Cerner EPR RADnet digital dictation system for sometime but decided to improve its reporting with speech recognition. The Naturally Speaking system sits on top of the original […]
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Siemens at the crossroads
Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens’ chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company’s healthcare IT development. William Payne assesses his legacy.
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Siemens at the crossroads
Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens’ chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company’s healthcare IT development. William Payne assesses his legacy.
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East and Midlothian physios get referral call centre
Therapists in the East Lothian and Midlothian Community Health Partnerships will be the first Scottish users of a centralised referral and appointment booking call centre, using an appointment module from Ethitec’s Tiara9 electronic patient record system. The East and Midlothian Physiotherapy Services has been using the Tiara 9 EPR system since 1995 and felt that the […]
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Agfa launch ORBIS EPR to UK market
Agfa HealthCare has launched its proven ORBIS electronic patient record system in the UK for the first time. The software is already used by 800 hospitals internationally. The system is Agfa’s most comprehensive hospital-wide clinical information system which delivers a complete electronic patient record as well as modules for scheduling, activity management and communication software. […]
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Dudley nurses use workflow software to cut paperwork
Nurses at the Dudley Hospitals in the West Midlands are using Siemens’ embedded workflow engine, Soarian, to sort their nursing documentation and their work lists electronically. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference, Sarah Gibson-Jones, the EPR clinical project lead at the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, said that the trust felt a need to […]
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