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EHI’s industry news roundup 18.04.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 18 April 2008 featuring supplier news, acquisitions, events and awards. Supplier news Zebra patient wristbands proven MRSA-resistant Results of independent lab tests at Northland Laboratories in the US show Zebra’s patent-pending antimicrobial wristband coating effectively resists Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Type II, Type III and […]
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FDBE releases SNOMED CT-based condition check
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe (FDBE) has released live condition checking content within its drug knowledge base, the Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF). The new content supports the SNOMED CT based condition checking functionality, released in July 2006, and means that patient data recorded using SNOMED CT codes can be used within […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 12.10.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 12 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and events, implementations and appointments. Implementations Mayday uses single sign on from Enline Staff at the Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to sign on to systems just the once to use any network applications, after […]
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SNOMED CT-based sensitivity now on Multilex DDF
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe (FDBE), has announced the release of SNOMED CT-based sensitivity checking within its drug knowledge base, the Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF). The release follows on from a development last year when FDBE released functionality to support SNOMED CT and dm+d based sensitivity checking to comply with NHS […]
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FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system. Siemens and FDBE have already worked together in America, and will now collaborate to integrate the decision support system into the UK version of Soarian. Siemens’ IT solutions business […]
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Major Multilex DDF update to support CfH requirements
First Databank Europe (FDBE) has completed a major upgrade to its Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF) to include integration of SNOMED-CT and the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (NHS dm+d). FDBE says the new release is designed to support customers in meeting NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) requirements, including the National Care Records […]
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FDBE chosen to implement dm+d guide
First Databank Europe (FDBE), the specialist provider of electronic drug knowledge bases and clinical decision support systems, has been selected by NHS Connecting for Health to author the next Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) implementation guidance. The new guide will provide support and a reference point for all systems suppliers implementing the dm+d and […]
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Great Ormond Street implements electronic prescribing
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has begun implementation of JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System. The new EPMA system now provides clinicians at the trust with software for the electronic prescribing and administration of medicines on a nephrology ward, and work has now begun on introducing the system into other wards […]
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FDBE aims to cut drug dosing errors
First DataBank Europe (FDBE) has announced that it is working with the National Patient Safety Agency on a project to improve the safety of patients on drugs requiring unusual dosage regimes. The NPSA, established as a Special Health Authority in July 2001, aims to improve the safety of patients taking oral methotrexate by incorporating new, […]
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