Leeds Teaching Hospitals pledges to ‘axe the fax’ by 1 January
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust has pledged to bin over 300 of its fax machines before the New Year in a bid oust outdated tech from its wards.
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Leeds credits ‘dramatic’ improvement in patient visibility to Scan4Safety
Barcode technology means patient location can now be tracked in near real-time at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, its associate director of commercial and procurement has told Digital Health News.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals approves further development of in-house EHR
The board of The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has given the green light for the development of its in-house electronic health record (EHR) to continue for another three years.
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Bittersweet as Corbridge leaves Health Service Executive to return to UK
Richard Corbridge is proud of the Irish Health Service Executive’s achievements during his time as CIO and now keen to embark on his new chapter in Leeds.
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Leeds Teaching to pull data from barcodes straight into EPR
The largest of the Scan4Safety demonstrator sites is to link information from barcodes to its electronic patient record (EPR) and patient administration system (PAS).
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Richard Corbridge to become CIO at Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Richard Corbridge has resigned at CIO of the Irish Health Service Executive to take up a new role as Chief Digital and Information officer of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, one of the largest trusts in the UK.
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Movers and shakers news round-up
In the first of our new monthly movers and shakers round-ups there’s lots of new senior appointments across various industry organisations.
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Leeds Care Record adds community, mental health and adult social care
Leeds Care Record now has five major health and care sectors contributing and viewing it – mental health, adult social care, community, hospital and GP.
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Laura’s Digital disruptors: healthcare gets smart on AI
Digital Health News reporter Laura Stevens explores how the brave new world of artificial intelligence is now being applied to healthcare, the huge potential opportunities and the new ethical and privacy challenges it raises
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