North Mersey looks beyond iPM
North Mersey Health Informatics Service is preparing to deploy Lorenzo Regional Care next year, having successfully rolled out one of its predecessors across two primary care trusts. The HIS has been delivering iSoft’s iPM – which is known locally as Lorenzo – to services run by Liverpool Primary Care Trust and NHS Sefton. The phased […]
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Alder Hey goes wireless with Xirrus
One of Europe’s biggest children’s hospitals has announced that it will be completely wireless within four months. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool started deploying Xirrus’ Wi-Fi Array three weeks ago in its clinical areas. It intends to provide 100% coverage, including lobbies and outside areas, by the summer. This should allow doctors, […]
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Liverpool Women’s integrates with ClearSpan
Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has chosen ClearSpan Server to integrate its Meditech health information system with several other departmental systems. The hospital has seven systems that do not connect to the Meditech HIS and the software provided by BridgeForward will allow systems to be connected and updated at all times. The trust says this […]
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Virtually there
An increasing number of NHS trusts are undertaking virtualisaton projects. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Interactive websites for Liverpool GPs
Liverpool Primary Care Trust has commissioned individual websites for ten PCT-run GP practices, as part of its commitment to providing information and online services to patients. North Mersey Health Informatics Service was asked to create the websites, which can be accessed through a single portal: www.liverpoolpctms.nhs.uk. Liverpool PCT said each website includes photographs of the […]
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Nortel files for bankruptcy protection
Nortel Networks, the Canadian telecoms equipment and networks specialist, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US to enable it to restructure. Nortel provides network and telecoms services to a number of NHS trusts in the UK, including: Liverpool Women’s hospital; Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust; and IP telephony to NHS trusts in Worcester and central […]
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Remote access across North Mersey
North Mersey Health Informatics Service has implemented a remote access solution for community-based clinicians, using laptops and 3G services. Already, 90 clinicians who work in Mersey Care Trust’s learning disabilities directorate have been equipped with lightweight laptops and 3G wireless data cards, allowing them to access clinical information systems, email and electronic diaries. An independent evaluation by […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists
Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Liverpool IM&T manager honoured
Kate Warriner, Liverpool Primary Care Trust’s IM&T primary care programme manager, has been awarded this year’s John Perry Prize by the British Computer Society’s Primary Healthcare Specialist Group. The prize, which is awarded yearly if there is an outstanding contribution to primary care computing, was given to Warriner for a series of projects around shared […]
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