Somerset cancer register goes national
The Somerset Health Informatics Service has developed an electronic register to help cancer patients across the country receive treatment more quickly. The register allows clinicians to access up-to-date patient information when they need it, anywhere within a hospital setting. Ruth King, business services manager for Somerset HIS, a shared service hosted by Taunton and Somerset NHS […]
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Information prescriptions to be linked to electronic records
The Department of Health is this week expected to set out its vision for information prescriptions that are linked to electronic patient records and a national accredited information system based within NHS Choices.
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Barking goes-live with EuroKing maternity system
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system, E3, to help achieve better data collection, reporting and audit. The system has been implemented across Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital, which between them deliver 10,000 high and low risk births annually. The trust is using the […]
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Barking Havering and Redbridge choose Euroking
Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust has chosen EuroKing Miracle to provide a new web-based maternity information system to improve care of mothers and their babies. Euroking Miracle will supply the trust with its E3 third generation maternity information system (MIS). The system will be implemented across Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital and is […]
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iSoft takeover in doubt as CSC witholds consent
The £140m takeover of UK health software supplier iSoft by Australian rival IBA Health has hit a major snag with iSoft’s main contractor Computer Sciences Corporation refusing to grant consent to the deal. IBA Health announced today that it has received a letter from CSC advising that it will not provide its consent for a change […]
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Consumer is king in wireless health
More consumer-driven wireless developments are on the horizon as mobile technology enjoys wider adoption in healthcare.
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Bush renews call for more use of healthcare IT
Health information technology advocates are hailing another call by US President George W. Bush for greater use of IT in healthcare, but understand that technology is only a small piece of an ambitious reform plan for 2006, reports US correspondent Neil Versel. In his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday, Bush linked quality, affordable […]
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Cancer network claims time saved by teleconferencing
The Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire (SWSH) Cancer Network has upgraded its videoconferencing systems to allow members to collaborate without travelling, thus freeing up travel time to spend with patients, it says. Terminals have been installed in several hospices, allowing clinicians working in palliative care to link into cancer units. The upgrade also means that […]
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Large scale MiSys EPR goes live in Saudi
Saudi Arabia’s National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA), the healthcare facility for the Saudi Arabian military police, has gone live with an electronic patient record system from IT solutions firm Misys. Misys CPR will cover members of the National Guard and their dependents. The company claims that the system will be one of the biggest clinical […]
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ComMedica Wins European Innovation Award
Innovative UK-based health IT firm ComMedica’s PIRILIS clinical information software has won the ‘best software Innovation’ category at the European Innovation Awards 2002, beating off competition from 20 other entrants from across Europe. A panel of independent judges singled ComMedica out from among competing entries after considering the extent to which the entrants’ ideas, methods […]
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