First DataBank launches FIRSTLight
First DataBank, the provider of drug databases and clinical decision support, has launched a web-based product that will allow clinicians to access reliable medicines information anywhere. The FIRSTLight product, which has been launched at eHealth Insider Live 2010, will allow clinicians to log-in from any desktop; no matter where they are or whether they have access to […]
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Southampton wins award for eDischarge
The pharmacy and IT teams at Southampton’s teaching hospital have been recognised for its eDischarge electronic patient discharge system.
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Ealing improves discharge with SRC
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust in London is using a electronic discharge summary solution from SRC to deliver discharge summaries to GPs within 24 hours of patients leaving hospital.
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System C and FDB partner on prescribing
First DataBank and System C Healthcare have signed a new contract to fully integrate First DataBank’s Multilex Drug Data File into System C’s Medway patient administration system. The deal will see the companies work together to develop enhanced prescribing capability within the PAS and electronic patient record system. Dr Ian Denley, chief executive of System […]
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Expert view: Alan Dutta-Plummer
A senior project consultant at JAC outlines the benefits of a Lean Approach to medicines management in Milton Keynes.
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2,500 Newcastle staff using Millennium
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has completed the roll-out of the Cerner Millennium medicines management system across the Freeman Hospital.
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All tooned up
Sarah Bruce returns to Newcastle to see how it is coping with Cerner Millennium six months after the go-live of the system it procured outside the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Leeds brings Theriak e-prescribing to UK
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the UK to sign a partnership agreement with Belfast-based CIS Healthcare to develop and implement its Theriak e-prescribing system. The system, which is implemented in more than fifty hospitals across Europe in countries including The Netherlands, Iceland, Norway, Denmark and Austria, will be implemented in […]
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King’s showcases e-prescribing roll-out
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has started rolling out its iSoft e-prescribing system trust-wide. The system enables prescribers to order their patient’s medication electronically and view scheduled and administered medications on an electronic drug chart via the iSoft Clinical Manager electronic patient record system. The trust is one of the first to use the […]
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Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh HIS tender
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust is tendering for a hospital information system to replace its patient administration system and provide integrated A&E and e-prescribing functionality. The trust stressed that it regarded the HIS as an ‘interim’ solution but said that it could “no longer afford to wait until Lorenzo reaches a capability beyond […]
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