Focus on: North Mersey HIS
Rebecca Todd speaks to the director of the North Mersey Health Informatics Service, Mark Bostock, about some of its projects, ahead of its iLINKS exhibition next month.
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Liverpool CCGs set up IM&T board
Three clinical commissioning groups in North Mersey have set up a joint IM&T board to provide strategic overview of IM&T programmes in the region.
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Liverpool shares info 55,000 times
More than 55,000 primary care records have been accessed by community, secondary and tertiary care providers in North Mersey over the past year as part of a local clinical pathways project.
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Royal Liverpool signs CSC portal deal
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has confirmed that is has become the first trust to sign a deal for CSC’s clinical information portal.
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EMIS and System C link up at Aintree
Primary care IT supplier EMIS and secondary care supplier System C have announced that University Hospital Aintree has gone live with a system to give its urgent care clinicians access to information held in GP systems.
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Nuance ‘turns typists to editors’
Nuance has launched a computer aided medical transcription platform designed to allow NHS staff to edit rather than type transcriptions as soon as they are received. The company has deployed the software, which it says is widely used across the US, at four NHS trusts including Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust and Alder Hey Children’s […]
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Alder Hey automates IT support
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has rolled out an automated IT support platform to provide remote support to more than 2,000 PCs. The trust implemented Kaseya IT automation platform following the successful deployment of system across Liverpool Women’s Hospital. It will now be used to manage, monitor and support more than 3,000 networked machines and provide […]
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Imprivata brings Secure Walk Away to UK
Imprivata, a specialist in single sign-on technology, has launched its OneSign Secure Walk Away technology worldwide. The technology uses intelligent computer vision technology, active presence detection and user tracking to lock a workstation when the authorised user moves away and then provides instant re-authentication upon their return. Omar Hussain, president and chief executive of Imprivata, […]
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EMIS Web v2 on show next week
Primary care system supplier EMIS has announced that it will preview version 2 of its next generation system EMIS Web at E-Health Insider Live ’09 next week. The company said it will be the first time the system has been shown outside the EMIS National User Group and follows the completion of internal testing. The […]
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Liverpool improves patient entertainment
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust is deploying a new entertainment solution to systems at patient bedsides that also enable its clinicians to access its patient information system. The trust has already started to roll-out the solution from Exterity, which uses the hospital’s existing IP network to supply TV and radio channels to its Philips CareServant patient […]
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