Southend-on-System C
The board of Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust took some convincing to invest in a new patient administration system and electronic patient record, but the team has now “hit the ground running.” Rebecca Todd reports.
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Cerner and McKesson join US alliance
Six heavyweight electronic medical records vendors have announced plans to develop common interoperability standards to create a new national set of core services.
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Kettering live with Medway
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust went live with its Medway patient administration system over the weekend.
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Basildon buys Medway
Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has bought the Medway electronic patient record system.
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Chesterfield issues PAS tender
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has published a tender notice for a patient administration system to replace its current system, which is reaching “end of life” in March 2014.
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Twenty twelve
The ‘Liberating the NHS’ reforms became law, the government issued a new NHS IT strategy, CSC’s deal for the NME was on and off an finally on again, and the ICO got cross. Lyn Whitfield looks back at 2012.
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The life of Brian
Brian James, the outspoken chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, spoke to Lyn Whitfield as he got ready to retire after a working life spent shaking up NHS IT.
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East Midlands deploys InterQual
McKesson’s InterQual clinical decision support software is being deployed across the East Midlands to identify patients who can be treated outside of acute settings.
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Electronic Staff Record up for re-tender
The contract for one of the first, big national IT projects to be rolled out across the NHS will be re-tendered this autumn.
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Gateshead confirms Medway go-live
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with its Medway electronic patient record system.
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