Central Manchester upgrade cancer care system
Cancer care staff at the Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust will be able to find all cancer care notes on one system following the trust’s upgrade of its IMS Maxims clinicals system. The trust had been using an older version of the system, which was not interoperable, meaning each cancer specialty […]
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Cegedim Rx pharmacy users get Spinal Tap
Integration specialist Quicksilva has announced that Cegedim Rx has installed its Spinal Tap software to enable pharmacies to communicate with the NHS Spine for the Electronic Prescriptions Service (EPS) project. Quicksilva says Spinal Tap will be hosted centrally and manage all upgrades which it says will reduce the amount of time and resources pharmacies spend […]
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Mid-Essex integrates systems in just 4 weeks
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust has successfully installed an enterprise integration engine able to support interfaces in multiple medical terminologies. While integration engines can typically take three months to implement the trust was able to complete its installation of Ensemble in just four weeks. The InterSystems Ensemble interface engine will provide trust-level integration for […]
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Brighton and Sussex deploys digital dictation
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust has deployed new digital dictation and speech recognition software which will fully integrate with their existing patient administration system (PAS). The trust has rolled out the WinScribe digital dictation system from suppliers, SRC, across the trust, covering 25 departments and over 800 users. The aim of the system is to improve […]
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CfH awards BT contract to replace NSTS
A new service developed by BT, called the Demographics Batch Service (DBS) is set to replace the NHS Strategic Tracing Service (NSTS) batch trace in summer 2008. The new system will provide access to the Personal Demographics Service (PDS) for all trusts using legacy systems not already linked to the PDS. Ultimately it will be […]
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Liquidlogic launch integrated adults system
Collaborative software provider Liquidlogic has launched a new web-based integrated adults system (IAS) which will allow local authorities and NHS trusts to keep one detailed record of a patient’s social care needs from the care planning process, to referral history and financial management. The web-based system is based on Liquidlogic’s Integrated Children’s Solution, used widely by […]
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European RIS and PACS integration on the rise
A report by Frost and Sullivan has found that the integration between Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) is becoming increasingly popular in Europe. In its latest research report, titled European RIS Markets, Frost and Sullivan found that the trend towards RIS-PACS integration in Europe is fast gathering pace, but […]
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HL7 UK to hold NHS systems interoperability seminars
HL7 UK, the promoter of healthcare interoperability standards, have announced they are to hold a series of free one-day seminars across June and July in Birmingham, York and London to promote healthcare systems interoperability. The events are aimed at NHS IT professionals and are designed to communicate the capabilities and best practice for the sharing […]
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda
Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in the recovering US city of New Orleans, Neil Versel writes. An Accenture study released at the start of last week’s meeting suggested that two-thirds of Americans consider electronic health […]
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Initiate first to achieve new HL7 compliance level
Initiate Systems, a specialist in master data management solutions has announced it has become the only vendor to have achieved Health Level 7 Version 3 (HL7 V3) for Patient Identifier Cross-reference (PIX) Manager and Patient Demographic Query (PDQ) Manager interoperability standards. It demonstrated compliance with the interoperability standards at the Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE) […]
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