Rotherham chooses BridgeHead
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to BridgeHead Software to provide data and storage management as part of its wider project to implement an electronic patient record system. The trust, which recently announced that it will push back the go-live of its Meditech EPR from November 2010 to July 2011, signed a […]
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The Rotherham EPR to use FDB database
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust will integrate First DataBank’s drug database into its Meditech electronic patient record, which is due to go live in November. The trust has announced it will integrate First DataBank’s Multilex Drug Data File to support eprescribing within its Meditech V6.0 EPR, supplied by Filetek UK. The move will enable it […]
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Royal Free builds Cerner checklists
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has developed a fully auditable set of checklists and actions for clinicians working with patients with gastro-intestinal bleeding within Cerner Millennium.
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EHI’s industry round up 31.05.2010
This month’s industry round up includes news of the savings that Mid Yorkshire Hospitals is making with a Salford Software identity management solution, new business for Cisco and HD Clinical, and contract wins for providers of e-rostering, asset management and e-learning software. Mid Yorks saves with identity management Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has said […]
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Rotherham: NPfIT has put us back 10 yrs
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS has “put back the contribution of IT in the NHS by more than ten years.”
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The Rotherham slams ‘unhelpful’ SHA
Brian James, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, has said its strategic health authority threatened it with a “double whammy” of costs to stop it going outside the National Programme for IT in the NHS. In a controversial speech at E-Health Insider Live ’09 about the trust’s decision to choose the US Meditech v6.0 electronic patient […]
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Information for World Class Commissioning
World Class Commissioning is a developing discipline with information at its heart. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Scottish telemedicine trial success
Cisco has released results from a survey of patients taking part in a Scottish telemedicine trial, showing that almost 100% were satisfied with the technology used to remotely assess minor medical conditions. In January 2008, the Scottish Centre for Telehealth joined forces with NHS Scotland and Cisco to run a trial in the emergency department […]
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HIMSS singing
With former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan on its speaker rota, this year’s HIMSS conference was always going to be about money. Neil Versel reports from Chicago.
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Rotherham picks Meditech for EPR
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to US clinical software supplier Meditech to provide it with a new electronic patient record system.
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