Wye Valley second trust for openMaxims
Wye Valley NHS Trust has signed a five-year deal with IMS Maxims to implement its open source electronic patient record openMaxims.
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Herefordshire council nets NHS
Herefordshire County Council will extend the use of its regional public sector network to 20 healthcare sites that are currently managed by NHS Herefordshire.
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EHI Live 2010 for primary care
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, author of an independent evaluation of the Summary Care Record and HealthSpace, will be one of the speakers at eHealth Insider Live 2010. In what promises to be a fascinating speech on Monday 8 November, she will outline what it meant to be an independent evaluator of two controversial NHS IT programmes […]
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PCTI delivers to GPs in Herefordshire
The discharge summary target NHS Herefordshire is delivering discharge summaries and radiology report messages to its 24 GP practices using software from document management specialists PCTI. The primary care trust said it wanted a solution to send discharge summaries from all inpatient wards at Hereford Hospital and radiology reports from the hospital’s Carestream radiology information […]
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LSPs paid a quarter of contract price
The local service providers of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been paid £1.1 billion, less than a quarter of the projected amounts for their projects.
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Hereford deploys Lorenzo R1
Hereford Hospital Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust has gone-live with Lorenzo in its rheumatology department. The trust went live at the start of September with Release 1 of the iSoft electronic patient record in a CSC implementation as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Andrew Spence, CSC’s director of healthcare strategy, told […]
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CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS
New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) programme in the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS, E-Health Insider has learned. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the […]
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Ambulance services get digital radios
The Department of Health has awarded a contract for a new digital radio and communication system for all NHS ambulance trusts in England, which will provide ambulance service staff with better communications, particularly when responding to critical incidents such as the 7 July London bomb attacks. The new digital radio service will replace the existing […]
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Technology key to transformed ambulance services
Electronic patient records and the planned central repository for patient information will be vital components of many the changes needed to transform the ambulance service in England, a newly-published review predicts. The review conducted by national ambulance adviser, Peter Bradley, says that the number of ambulance trusts needs to be reduced by at least 50% […]
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