Hi-tech features in 150th CMO report
The chief medical officer’s annual report has highlighted the need for surgeons to be trained using simulation techniques. The report, published by Professor Sir Liam Donaldson yesterday, devotes a chapter to simulation and says that surgeons trained using simulation methods make fewer errors and carry out technically more exact procedures. However, it says that although […]
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Personal view: Derek Hodgson
Derek Hodgson, head of telecommunications for the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, takes on 08 numbers.
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JAC to distribute robotic medicines cabinets
JAC Computer Services Ltd (JAC) has become the exclusive UK distributor of robotic medicines cabinets designed to improve medicines management. The UK specialist supplier of electronic pharmacy and medicines management systems will supply computerised medicines cabinets manufactured by MDG Medical. Under the agreement, JAC will offer a range of units including specialist cabinets for […]
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St Mary’s further delays go live of Cerner CRS
St Mary’s Hospital, part of London’s Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, has delayed plans to go-live this coming weekend with the Cerner Millennium electronic records system supplied by BT as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. St Mary’s was due to be the first part of the giant trust to implement […]
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St Mary’s delays go-live of CRS
The deployment of a London Cluster Release 1 Care Records System at the St Mary’s campus of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been delayed by a month due to “significant uncertainties.” The hospital was due to go live on 14 July with the Cerner Millennium system, but opted to defer deployment to the end […]
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Royal Free go-live with Millennium R1 CRS
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go-live with a Cerner Millennium Release 1 Care Records System. The trust went live with the new Patient Administration System, delivered by local service provider BT, over the weekend, and will be using it for accident and emergency, order communications, inpatient, maternity, […]
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Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London
Kevin Jarrold, NHS London’s chief information officer and the London Programme for IT’s regional implementation director, has pledged to have installed 15 acute care records systems by the end of the current financial year. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo, Jarrold said that after a “patchy” start for LPfIT in delivering core systems to acute […]
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DH funds collaborative ICT research
Information and Communications technology features in five of the seven partnerships which are receiving a share of the £64m research grant for studies looking at major conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Health Research and Care sites were announced by health minister, Dawn Primarolo, […]
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Students showcase medical robotics innovations
Click for full size image. A new type of endoscope probe which can plot a 3D course inside a patient using fibre optics, was one of five new robotic innovations showcased by students at Imperial College London on Tuesday. Special software has been designed which can plan a course inside the body for a flexible […]
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