Rotherham picks Meditech for EPR
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to US clinical software supplier Meditech to provide it with a new electronic patient record system.
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InterQual to manage care across Rotherham
Rotherham Health and Social Care Economy Partnership is deploying an evidence-based decision support and care management system developed and widely-used in the US. The partnership between Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Rotherham, and Rotherham Social Services was developed in July 2008, to meet national imperatives to use health services appropriately. It is now rolling out […]
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Waiting not an option
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust tells Jon Hoeksma why it can’t wait for NPfIT to deliver.
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Rotherham set to announce EPR contract
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is set to announce the award of a contract for a new electronic patient record system that will see it spend an estimated £30-40m over the next ten years.
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma on the Operating Framework and the future of the National Programme.
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Leicester chooses McKesson for payroll
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has chosen McKesson as its payroll provider. The company will take over payroll at the trust and four others within a local payroll consortium in February next year. The move follows a series of problems with the trusts’ former payroll provider, Capita, which included late and incomplete payments an […]
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McKesson launches InterQual in UK
McKesson used the recent NHS Alliance annual conference to formally launch its InterQual “utilisation management and appropriateness of care solution" in the UK. InterQual is aimed at providing primary care and acute trusts with support in deciding whether patients are receiving timely and appropriate care in the right place, and whether alternative and more cost […]
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London payroll and Tees patient records lost
Four computer disks, containing more than seven years’ worth of payroll information for nearly 18,000 NHS staff in London, have been lost in the post. The disks disappeared in July after the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust’s payroll department sent them to McKesson, which provides it with payroll IT services. The disks were sent via the […]
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EHI’s news roundup 15.08.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 15 August features supplier news and information on newly published research reports.
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Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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