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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Major weaknesses found in maternity systems
The Healthcare Commission has urged trusts to invest in maternity information systems in a report that identifies major weaknesses in services for pregnant women and new mothers. The outcome of a two-year review of maternity services in England, launched after a series of inquiries at trusts, identifies a lack of good maternity information services as […]
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Newcastle goes live with EuroKing maternity system
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a EuroKing Miracle web-based maternity information system (MIS) in the first stage of a wider implementation. The third generation E3 system has initially gone-live in the maternity unit of Royal Victoria Infirmary, and will be extended to other hospitals, community midwives and the neighboring Northumbria Healthcare […]
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DH funds collaborative ICT research
Information and Communications technology features in five of the seven partnerships which are receiving a share of the £64m research grant for studies looking at major conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Health Research and Care sites were announced by health minister, Dawn Primarolo, […]
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Imperial integration
The UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre is generating a significant systems integration challenge for the merged institution’s IT professionals.
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Medway and Frimley Park choose EuroKing
Medway NHS Trust and the Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have chosen EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system to improve care of mothers and their babies. The two deals are the latest in the busy maternity information systems market, where a growing number of NHS trusts are procuring maternity systems. EuroKing Miracle will supply […]
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System C Healthcare acquires Care Records
System C Healthcare, a UK healthcare software services and implementation consultancy, has acquired clinical system developer Care Records Ltd, from medical equipment manufacturer Huntleigh Healthcare. Care Records is a developer of clinical IT systems, best known for the Eclipse maternity system and a diabetes management system, both of which have been installed in UK hospitals. […]
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The big screen
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to introduce free screening for stroke, diabetes, heart and kidney disease. Joe Fernandez looks at the IT involved.
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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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DH offers guidance on GP patient survey
The Department of Health has issued guidance to GP practices on how its £10m survey on GP patient access and choice at referral will work next month. GPs will be paid 2.8p per registered patient for handing out choice surveys between January and March and will also be able to send choice questionnaires to patients […]
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