South Central chooses McKesson for HR support
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Trust has selected McKesson Shared Services to support its HR and payroll functions. The deal will give the trust first-line support for administration tasks associated with using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR), which McKesson provides to the health service under a Department of Health contract. Natalie Edwards, the trust’s […]
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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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McKesson launch whiteboard monitoring system
McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Visibility McKesson has launched its Horizon Enterprise Visibility product – a whiteboard style system that provides real time information of a room’s availability, patient location and the current status of a patient’s treatment – to the UK market. McKesson say the system is the first visual control system designed specifically for hospitals, […]
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Peterborough choose McKesson for HR and Payroll
Peterborough and Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected McKesson Shared Services to support its HR and Payroll functions. Using McKesson Shared Services will mean they have first-line support for all administration tasks associated with the day-to-day functions of HR and Payroll using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR), which McKesson provides under a national […]
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McKesson says ESR job done
As the NHS Electronic Staff Record nears completion, E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma speaks to Charmaine McDonald, MD of McKesson UK, the company behind the project.
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Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson
Senior staff at Medway NHS Trust are piloting McKesson’s Horizon Business Insight solution in order to extract performance information at the click of a button. The system has been widely deployed across the US, and McKesson have been working with Medway to configure it to meet the needs of the English NHS. The system, known […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 30.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 30 November, featuring supplier news, events, and awards. Supplier News Three wins takes JAC to the 100 customer mark The recent contract signings of the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust and the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, has resulted in […]
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Whittington pilots McKesson clinician portal
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to pilot a new single sign-on gateway portal from health software specialist McKesson. The Horizon Physician Portal, originally developed for the US-market, provides one view of data from disparate source systems and a single point of access to multiple stand-alone systems in use […]
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PCT commissioning data and IT suppliers named
Suppliers offering expertise in data analysis and IT solutions to support commissioning are included in the 14 organisations chosen by the Department of Health to provide PCTs with support. The DH last week announced the names of the suppliers it has selected for its Framework for procuring External Support for Commissioners (FESC). The framework is […]
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