Southport gets digital dictation
Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust has implemented a digital dictation platform from Medisec.
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East Cheshire sends A&E info to GPs
East Cheshire NHS Trust’s is using Medisec eDelivery software to automatically produce and send discharge letters to GPs from the A&E department of Macclesfield District General Hospital.
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EHI round-up: digital dictation
This special edition of E-Health Insider’s industry round-up focuses on digital dictation. It covers innovative and recent deployments to NHS trusts by most of the leading players in a market that really seems to be opening up. Rotherham begins trust wide digital dictation The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has started a full roll out of […]
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Cheshire trusts send e-discharge letters
Three acute trusts are delivering electronic discharge letters to almost 90 GP practices using a shared IT solution that plugs into existing computer systems. Central and Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust has led the initiative, which uses the MedisecNET electronic delivery system from Medisec Software. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, East Cheshire […]
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Chester aims at discharge summary target
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has introduced software from Medisec to meet NHS targets for the delivery of discharge summaries. The system allows the trust to know when clinical correspondence has been delivered to GPs, helping it to meet targets in the NHS standard contract. This says that trusts must deliver discharge summaries to […]
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E-referral system aims to cut discharge delays
An electronic e-referral system that helps cut discharge delays has been extended to cover patients moving from the Countess of Chester Hospital in Cheshire to the care of Flintshire Social Services, North Wales. The new link will enable nurses at the hospital to inform Flintshire staff round-the-clock about patients being referred for social care. Previously […]
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Manchester hospitals link up with GPs
Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust have launched a system that enables clinical correspondence to be electronically exchanged between hospitals and GP practices, providing overnight delivery of patient discharge information when they leave hospital. Using software from clinical correspondence specialists Medisec, the system provides electronic links will be used between all the […]
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Hospital reports over 2,600 e-referrals per month
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is receiving over 2,600 electronic referrals a month using software that slots into Microsoft Word and replaces the print button, according to manufacturers Medisec. The e-referral system links 33 surgeries in northwest England and Wales to the hospital. GPs send the referrals to the hospital using a ‘Send […]
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