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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Newcastle expands use of Millennium
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the first in UK to roll-out order and results and medicines management applications from Cerner.
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Tooning up Millennium
Last month, Newcastle Upon Tune Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust went live with a Cerner Millennium system from UPMC. Sarah Bruce went to see how it is getting on.
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Guernsey progresses InterSystems EHSCR
InterSystems has announced that Guernsey Health and Social Services Department has gone-live with key elements of its island-wide Electronic Health and Social Care Record (EHSCR). Guernsey has replaced its thirteen year old patient administration system, SWIFT, with InterSystems’ TrakCare, while simultaneously implementing new Accident and Emergency and theatre software and specialist child health software from CSE Healthcare […]
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Great Ormond Street completes JAC EPMA
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has become the first paediatric hospital in the UK to complete a roll-out of an Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration system from JAC.
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