Tweets measuring quality of care
Healthcare bosses should be careful when using “unstructured” Twitter feedback to measure the quality of a hospital’s care, according to a study done by researchers from Imperial College and Oxford University.
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Imperial suffers problems with GE RIS
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has experienced severe problems with its GE Healthcare radiology information system, forcing it to halt its roll-out.
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Imperial spends £4.6m on EPR consultants
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has spent £4.6m on external consultants for its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record programme since April 2012.
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Imperial plans PAS go-live
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has confirmed plans to go-live with the Cerner Millennium patient administration system and maternity module later this year.
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Poor IT behind Imperial cancer problems
An independent review of data quality issues affecting cancer patient referrals to Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has identified “poor computer systems” as a key cause of the problem.
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Data issues hit Imperial cancer patients
“Data collection” issues at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust mean it may not have received hundreds of urgent cancer referrals over the past year.
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Imperial completes trust-wide IMS PAS
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has completed the roll out of its IMS Maxims patient administration system across all of its hospital sites.
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Lord Darzi launches NHS ratings app
Former health minister Professor Lord Ara Darzi has launched an iPhone app that allows users to rate NHS services and create a basic medical record they can share with health professionals.
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NHS Choices receives 100m visits in year
The Department of Health has reported that NHS Choices received more than 100m visits last year. It has also published research indicating that patients who visited the website were less likely to consult a GP.
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Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS
The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in response to the latest report on the scandal at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.
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