Eight-day IT failure at Great Ormond critical care units
The “unexpected total system failure” has sparked a review of the London hospital’s IT infrastructure.
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GOSH tenders for £50m EPR
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust has gone to tender for an electronic patient record and a clinical and research platform worth £50 million.
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Great Ormond Street bites into Apple
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust has deployed iPads and iMacs in its cardiology department to give staff instant access to 3D images of patients’ hearts, as part of a bigger Apple infrastructure project.
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Great Ormond Street trials iPads
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust is piloting the use of iPads for e-prescribing.
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Great Ormond Street barcodes wristbands
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has rolled out barcoded wristbands from Dakota Healthcare. The wristband system, which fully integrates with the trust’s existing iSoft iPM patient administration system, and is GS1 standard compliant, provides patient verification including NHS Number, hospital identification number, patient name and date of birth. The trust said that […]
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Great Ormond Street order comms deal
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has signed a deal with IMS Maxims to implement order communications and results reporting. The system will enable more than 2,000 healthcare professionals to order pathology and radiology tests and then review the results alongside the original request. It will also allow orders to be placed for […]
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Great Ormond Street completes JAC EPMA
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has become the first paediatric hospital in the UK to complete a roll-out of an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration system from JAC.
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Arctic blast
A think-tank recently ranked its funding forecasts for the NHS from ‘tepid’ to ‘arctic.’ Sarah Bruce asks what that will mean for healthcare IT.
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Birmingham uses OMNI-Lab for baby tests
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is using a subset of OMNI-Lab to manage the bloodspot screening tests taken from 70,000 newborn infants across the West Midlands each year. The heelprick tests are used to screen for five serious diseases, as part of the UK Newborn Screening Programme, which is carried out by centres of […]
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iSoft purchases BridgeForward
Australian health software specialist iSoft has purchased US hospital data integration specialist BridgeForward for £9m. The acquisition gives iSoft a toehold in the burgeoning US market, which the company sees as critical to its future growth. The deal also reinforces iSoft’s position in the UK, where BridgeForward’s integration technology is widely used, with clients including […]
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