Bolton meet integration needs with InterSystems
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration platform in an effort to connect all its hospital systems to its iSoft iPM patient administration system. The trust went to tender for technology to meet its local integration needs and address the integration requirements associated with its National Programmed for IT systems. Bolton chose […]
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InterSystems named best integration platform
InterSystems has retained its status as providers of the best integration platform in US-based KLAS’s healthcare technology research annual year end report. The Ensemble rapid integration platform was voted the market leader in the integration engines field in the ‘KLAS 2007 Top 20: Year-End Awards’ report. Data compiled by KLAS for its premium research service […]
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to introduce free screening for stroke, diabetes, heart and kidney disease. Joe Fernandez looks at the IT involved.
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NHS Breast Screening Programme consolidates systems
The NHS Breast Screening Programme (NHSBSP) has replaced four different systems it previously used with a single National Breast Screening System (NBSS). Benefits of the new system include making it easier for NHS staff to making and change appointments and clinicians are able to enter data directly using the software. The new system, provided by […]
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Jersey prepares way to integrated records
Jersey Health and Social Services have chosen InterSystem’s Caché and Ensemble software to make systems integration and reporting processes faster. The department was forced to review its infrastructure after its existing 20-year-old legacy system was becoming obsolete and no longer able to meet hospital requirements. Jersey’s risk manager, Paul Patterson, told E-Health Europe: “Our existing […]
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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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Guernsey awards EPR contract to TrakHealth
The Health & Social Services Department of Guernsey has awarded TrakHealth a ten-year deal to provide all healthcare providers on the island with an integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system. The integrated EPR, based on a system called TrakCare, will be used to support the delivery of comprehensive health and social care services to the […]
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Moorfields goes live with locally developed EPR
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London has gone live with a new electronic patient record (EPR) system developed by the trust together with Stalis and supported by Intersystems. The new EPR, known at the trust as the Moorfields Care Record Management Service (MCRS) is a highly specialised EPR designed to meet the particular […]
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Calderdale and Huddersfield extends home grown PAS
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has extended its existing home grown patient administration system (PAS) from one site to three hospitals in just four months. The trust was able to extend the PAS system which is now used in all areas of the three hospitals using InterSystems Cache integration engine. Previously the foundation trust […]
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Plymouth opts for Ensemble integration platform
Plymouth ICT Shared Services is replacing its current integration platform with InterSystems Ensemble, it was announced today. Plymouth’s director of ICT, Nick Thomas, said, “This investment will enable the community to fully embrace the central integrated solutions provided by the National Programme for IT [NPfIT], while maintaining and enhancing the benefits to clinicians delivered by […]
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