Vendors can do more to make EPRs work for clinicians
The frequently-made promise about electronic patient record systems is that they will cut the amount of time that clinicians spend making notes – so bolstering the time that can be spent on patient care. But, argues Dmitry Garbar, more needs to be done if this promise is to be fully kept.
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Leeds and York Partnership NHS FT selects CareWorks for new EPR
The trust issued a tender for a new EPR in September 2017 and currently runs Civica’s Paris EPR, which was deployed in 2011 on a seven-year-contract.
Clinical Software
Most read Digital Health features and columns, 2016
Digital Health readers wanted to know how trusts had really got on with high-profile deployments in 2016; while communicating with patients, consent and blockchain were the subjects on the minds of columnists.
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Colin and Clive talk 20 years of EPRs
Colin Sweeney and Clive Stringer have 55 years’ combined experience working in NHS IT. Both recently retired from their full-time jobs at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. They reflect on their time there with news editor Rebecca McBeth.
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Guest column: Bitcoin technology and the NHS
Gareth Baxendale, the head of technology for the NIHR Clinical Research Network, asks: can Bitcoin’s block chain technology revolutionise electronic patient records?
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Kelsey: lives ‘ruined’ by lack of data
People’s lives are being “ruined” by the NHS’ inability to join up patient information, Tim Kelsey has argued in a speech urging trusts to roll out IT systems and CCGs to make sure they are interoperable.
Interoperability