Cerner’s Millennium named best EPR system
Cerner Millenium has been awarded the top prize at the Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Their Millennium architecture won top prize in the Electronic Health Record Systems for Hospitals prize. The same architecture underpins their e-booking contract and had been a major part of all their unsuccessful LSP bids. In […]
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ASSIST to seek partnership with British Computer Society
ASSIST, the Association for ICT Professionals in Health and Social Care, has voted to seek partnership with the British Computer Society’s health informatics committee (BCSHIC). An “overwhelming” majority of members at the association’s annual general meeting on 20 May gave the group’s national council a mandate to pursue discussions already underway. The move will almost […]
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Big Brother alive and well at Heathcare Computing
E-Health Insider comment from Jon Hoeksma “I just had a call from the National Programme [for IT] on what I could say. I looked at my notes and realised I couldn’t say anything.” This was the quote from the Healthcare Computing 2004 conference that perhaps best summed up the national programme’s very strange approach to […]
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Calculating the final bill
Anyone who reads the Times will be familiar with their ‘dine out for a tenner’ deals. Top London restaurants offer cheap deals on stripped-down menus, while banking that once they’ve got you in the door and you’ve drunk your complimentary glass of fizz you’ll start ordering a la carte and racking up a big bill. […]
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Research points to serious issues in EPR acceptability
A group of researchers at the University of Brighton spent two years looking at how electronic patient records were developed, implemented and used in maternity services. They summarise the findings below. ‘Few would dispute that the vision for the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) is acceptable. The majority of clinicians and clients would welcome the use […]
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E-Health Insider – the first 100 issues
As the E-Health Insider newsletter celebrates the 100th edition, we take the opportunity to look back over highlights of two years coverage of e-health. December 2001 – Tablets within two years In EHI No 1 we reported on a Microsoft-Department of Health conference at which Bill Gates and Alan Milburn set out the vital role of […]
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Gloucestershire NHS staff get mobile access to EPR
One of the key issues facing local health communities is how to cost-effectively provide all staff with easy access to key clinical and administrative applications at the point of care. Gloucestershire Health Community has shown how community-based staff can be provided with easy access to key systems and electronic patient records over a very ‘thin […]
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Misys Healthcare Systems extends UK operations
Clinical software firm, Misys Healthcare Systems has announced today the opening of its UK headquarters office in Sussex and the appointment of Duane Lawrence as general manager and head of UK International Sales. Misys says its new UK HQ will enable it to better serve NHS customers. Lawrence, who will lead the new Misys Sussex […]
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iSOFT bags one of the last local EPR deals
Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a £14.9m deal with iSOFT for an electronic patient record (EPR) and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) – one of the last major local IT deals before the NHS National Programme for IT procurements start. The trust’s director of finance and information, Chris Calkin explained that […]
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Primary care IT Manhattan style
Andrew Harrison, whose career change took him from computer programming to hospital medicine, continues his occasional series with some notes from a recent trip to the US where he visited a practice renowned for its celebrity patients and dynamic IT. I have often wondered how America medical practices compare to those in the UK with […]
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