Liverpool Women’s moves to single sign-on
All members of staff at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust will soon be able to use their hospital entry cards as single sign-on smartcards to all hospital IT applications. Working with identity and access management specialists, Imprivata, the trust wanted to stop their IT helpdesk being called up on a daily basis to reset passwords […]
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GP representatives to call for public enquiry on CRS
GPs representatives are to hear calls for a public inquiry into the cost of the NHS Care Records Service (CRS) at the national local medical committees’ (LMCs) conference next week. Doctors will also consider a call for Choose and Book to be suspended. A priority motion at the LMCs conference demands that a public inquiry […]
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Liverpool Women’s get WiFi ticket to roam
Liverpool women’s has become the latest trust to become a wireless hotspot. Joe Fernandez looks at the benefits of being able to roam and treat.
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North Mersey use MSoft for blood tracking
North Mersey Health Informatics Service has chosen the MSoft blood tracking solution to help them meet compliance with European Commission directives for blood audits. Using the MSoft tracking system, blood samples are taken and stored in 17 transfusion fridges across five trusts – the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Aintree University Hospitals […]
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Atos Origin’s £257m DH diagnostics contract suspended
A £257m contract for diagnostic services in North-west and South-west England awarded to Atos Origin last December has been suspended after the Department of Health (DH) ordered an independent review following concerns about quality and administrative procedures. Atos Origin had been working with eight PCTs in the North-west since December but some ultrasound and MRI scan […]
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Tunstall leads European telecare project
Telecare specialist, Tunstall, is co-ordinating a part EU-funded project called SOPRANO, which will design and develop new telehealth solutions for elderly people. The Service Orientated Programmable Smart Environments for Older Europeans (SOPRANO) is a €12m (£8m) research and development project aimed at developing new ways of integrating assistive technology, telecare and telehealth solutions into users’ […]
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Liverpool integrates walk-in centres with PCT database
Liverpool’s walk-in centres are to be electronically linked together to one central database to be viewed and accessed by all four centres. The new approach will be made possible by the planned implementation of the Clinical Solutions Walk-In Centre electronic patient record and nurse led consultation system across all of the sites. The Walk-In Centre […]
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Rewiring Long Term Care
As major work starts on ‘demonstrators’ for e-enabled long term care, Colin Jervis analyses the challenge.
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Fujitsu hits 100m PACS images
Fujitsu Services, the NHS’s IT prime contractor for the South of England, has today recorded the 100 millionth patient image stored in its data centre as part of the Connecting for Health, picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) programme. Two million images a week are being added to Fujitsu’s PACS data centre, with the programme […]
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LSPs fail ‘acid test’ on PAS deployments
Delivery of the patient administration systems due to form the foundation for future electronic patient records in NHS hospitals has stalled with only a fifth of the systems promised in June actually installed. In June NHS Connecting for Health said that 22 acute NHS trusts would get new PAS systems by the end of October. […]
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