Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has disbanded its Care Records System team and will implement a system from Ascribe instead. Following Fujitsu’s exit from the National Programme for IT, the trust decided to use its contingency plans to consolidate all of its existing systems into a single system known as ePEX […]
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Medway and Frimley Park choose EuroKing
Medway NHS Trust and the Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have chosen EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system to improve care of mothers and their babies. The two deals are the latest in the busy maternity information systems market, where a growing number of NHS trusts are procuring maternity systems. EuroKing Miracle will supply […]
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System C Healthcare acquires Care Records
System C Healthcare, a UK healthcare software services and implementation consultancy, has acquired clinical system developer Care Records Ltd, from medical equipment manufacturer Huntleigh Healthcare. Care Records is a developer of clinical IT systems, best known for the Eclipse maternity system and a diabetes management system, both of which have been installed in UK hospitals. […]
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System C goes live in Isle of Man hospitals
System C has completed installation of its MedWay patient management system in two hospitals on the Isle of Man, less than nine months after the contract was awarded. The integrated systems went live on the exact date agreed with the Isle of Man at the outset of the contract and without any contract change notices. […]
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Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson
Senior staff at Medway NHS Trust are piloting McKesson’s Horizon Business Insight solution in order to extract performance information at the click of a button. The system has been widely deployed across the US, and McKesson have been working with Medway to configure it to meet the needs of the English NHS. The system, known […]
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South edges towards ‘best of breed’ approach
The re-negotiation of the NHS IT Programme contract between Fujitsu and the NHS in the South of England appears to be heading towards a best of breed approach.
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Medway bans Facebook use in work hours
Staff at the Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent, have been banned from using social networking website Facebook during working hours. The trust says the move is aimed at monitoring internet usage and optimising efficiency, denying reports the website was responsible for slowing down the hospital’s computer systems. Andy Horne, chief executive at Medway […]
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System C buys private healthcare specialist IQ Systems
System C Healthcare has acquired private sector health IT specialists IQ Systems Services in a deal worth approximately £2m, it was announced today. IQ is a leading supplier of patient management and clinical software solutions for private treatment centres and hospitals. The company’s most popular product is IQUtopia, a purpose-built patient management, healthcare scheduling and clinical […]
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Trusts feel knock on effects of Millennium delays
Ongoing delays in implementations of Release 0 of the Cerner Millennium Care Record Service (CRS) in the south of England are having a knock effect, pushing back deployment dates for trusts awaiting Release 1 of the software. As a result several hospital trusts in the South currently have no firm implementation date for implementation, while […]
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East Kent Pathology Network digitises specimen requests
The East Kent Pathology Network has implemented a new information capture system called Indicus from information capture specialists Kofax, to electronically scan pathology specimen request forms. The new system should help East Kent Pathology Network – which covers four acute trusts – to better manage and process incoming pathology specimen request forms, saving time and […]
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