University Hospital Aintree wins pharmacy IT award
The pharmacy department at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool has won the 2004 First DataBank Guild of Healthcare Pharmacist Information Technology Award for its effective electronic transfer of discharge prescriptions pilot. The University Hospital Aintree pharmacy department was chosen for its development of a system to transfer patient discharge information securely and quickly between the hospital […]
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Anglo-Finnish hospital benchmarking initiative launched
Finnish company C-Quest and the UK’s InFocus Health have launched an international hospital benchmarking initiative to comparatively measure and monitor healthcare efficiencies in hospitals in the UK and Finland, and recommend how technology can improve performance. The initiative was launched at a 5 November dinner hosted by Pertti Salolainen, the Finnish Ambassador to Great Britain, […]
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Placing XML at the Heart of Hospital Trust’s IM&T Strategy
Following E-Health Insider s XML in health feature two week s ago, Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, sets out how his trust has used XML to develop extremely low cost ‘best of breed’ solutions to integrate systems and improve clinical care. Information Technology at Wrightington, Wigan & […]
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Good Hope Hospital Buys Oasis PAS
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust has signed a contract with Siemens Healthcare Services to provide it with a new Patient Administration System (PAS). The new system will be provided as a managed service and will be based on the Oasis PAS system, supplied by Siemens partner, Capula Elan. Features of the Oasis PAS systems to […]
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10 Ways To Improve NHS IT – a Hospital Doctor’s View
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, worked in IT before studying medicine. His unusual background prompted E-Health Insider to ask him to list the top 10 improvements he would like to see in healthcare IT. Read on for the result… Until the age of 29 I was a computer programmer working in the City. Then I decided […]
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Ayr Hospital Uses Tablets for Prescribing
Ayrshire and Arran Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is leading the development of hospital e-prescribing in the Scottish NHS. One of the key issues they have faced is finding the right device to enable staff to enter and call up prescribing details on the wards and by the patient bedside. "We’ve had e-prescribing for the past […]
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Bromley Hospital NHS Trust Signs £1.6m Network Deal
Communications and network infrastructure provider Damovo has won a £1.6m contract to provide the communications network for the new Bromley hospital, currently being built under a £155m PFI (private finance initiative) deal. The contract, worth £1.6m, will see Damovo providing a complete data, voice and cabling infrastructure. Due to open in April 2003, the new hospital […]
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Telemedicine Holds Promise of Improved Access to Healthcare
Telemedicine holds the promise of improving access to health care – especially in areas where there are geographical barriers – and of reducing costs, but it suffers from the glamorous image associated with using high technology, a major clinical review in the British Medical Journal concludes. The reviewer, telemedicine expert, Richard Wootton, looked at 969 […]
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