Movers and Shakers news roundup
Our latest Movers and Shakers news roundup features a new fellow at BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT and Warrington and Halton appointing a new CIO.
News
Site visit: ONC course at Clatterbridge
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre went live with a Meditech EPR in May, becoming the first trust to implement the oncology module. Laura Stevens went to see how it went, and to hear about the trust’s plans for the new year.
Clinical Software
Alder Hey hospital upgrades IT system
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new version of the Meditech electronic patient record.
Clinical Software
City workers view images from EPR
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust staff will be able to see imaging data from within their Meditech electronic patient record using Agfa HealthCare’s enterprise imaging platform.
Infrastructure
Rotherham updates Meditech
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has upgraded its Meditech electronic patient record system to version 6.07, three years after the troubled implementation of its predecessor.
Clinical Software
Clatterbridge signs up for Meditech
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Meditech for a new electronic patient record system, as it moves towards opening a new, £118m specialist cancer hospital in 2018.
News
Rotherham’s EPR enforcement action ended
Monitor has removed the ‘enforcement action’ it had placed on the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust’s troubled Meditech electronic patient record system.
News
Rotherham’s revival
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons after an IT implementation went awry. But the trust is back on track – and a wiser place too, Linda Davidson discovers.
Feature
Rotherham asks Monitor to back off
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is to ask Monitor to relax its oversight of its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record programme.
News
Alder Hey picks BT as strategic partner
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a £50m contract to BT as a strategic partner to improve its IT, help to implement a new electronic patient record, and prepare for a move to a new hospital.
News