Euroking’s new maternity goes live at Heart of England
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has become the first hospital trust to go live with EuroKing Miracle’s E3 third generation Maternity Information System. The foundation trust, which is one of the largest in the UK, went live with the upgrade to the Miracle MIS at its two major sites, Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull Hospitals, […]
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Compulsory cleaning keyboard battles MRSA
A new keyboard that reminds its user that it needs to be cleaned regularly has been developed by scientists at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH), with backing from NHS Connecting for Health. The Advanced Input Systems Medigenic keyboard, which is claimed could cut cases of the MRSA superbug by up to […]
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Newcastle looks outside CfH for maternity
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a new maternity system and key elements of a new electronic health record system, outside the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The trust is making the move to mitigate risks created by delays to the Connecting for Health programme growing beyond the current two […]
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Fujitsu’s Cerner delays mount in the South
Three more trusts have had to postpone Fujitsu implementations of Cerner Millennium in the South at short notice, as go-live dates for hospital systems slip further across the region. The delays mean that a key Connecting for Health delivery pledge will be missed. The three latest sites to announce delays include Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, […]
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CSC says it will implement iPM at Bradford in six months
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which had gone outside the NHS National Programme for IT to procure for a new patient administration system, has come back into the fold. The trust has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to implement iSoft’s iPM in just six months, in a deal underwitten by NHS […]
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Sheffield concluded iPM was ‘not fit for purpose’
A confidential review of the two Local Service Provider versions of iSoft’s iPM patient administration system carried out by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust concluded the system was not, in its team’s opinion, “fit for purpose” and created “clinical risks”, due to a series of performance issues. The team looked at versions of the […]
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Sheffield abandons iSoft iPM implementation
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has abandoned plans to implement a new patient administration system from iSoft, the first stage of the local Care Records Service (CRS) software being offered to it under the NHS Connecting for Health programme. After delays stretching back to 2004, the independent foundation trust, one of the largest hospital […]
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Bradford Teaching Hospitals procures for PAS
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued a European procurement notice for a new patient administration system (PAS) to be supplied outside the scope of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NHS foundation trust placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union at the end of July for a […]
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Deaf signing shows videoconferencing’s potential
A service that offers deaf patients and their clinicians quick access to a sign language interpreter via a video link shows one of many ways IP [Internet Protocol] networks are changing the way healthcare can be delivered, networking specialists, Cisco Systems, say. Cisco has provided networks for Significan’t , an award-winning social enterprise which has become a source […]
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Doctors test out RFID system for handovers
Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers. David Morgan, consultant ENT surgeon at the trust, who is also surgical safety adviser to the National Patient Safety Agency, explained the system to the Clinical Care Computing conference in London last week. Birmingham Heartlands […]
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