Tees and NE Yorkshire postpones PAS project
Tees and North East Yorkshire NHS Trust has postponed implementation of an iSoft iPM Patient Administration System (PAS). The mental health trust becomes the third NHS trust to tell E-Health Insider they have decided to shelve or postpone implementation of the iSoft system. All three trusts are located in the two Accenture clusters of the NHS […]
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Norfolk and Norwich shelves iSoft PAS
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust have shelved the implementation of a new Patient Administration System from iSoft, provided by Accenture under the NHS National Programme for IT. The trust suspended implementation efforts due to lack of confidence in the ability of iSoft and local service provider (LSP) Accenture to deliver the system "within […]
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Award for time-saving medical images system
An online system that has reduced the time taken to make clinical images available to consultants from four weeks to about four minutes has won a major award for the senior clinical photographer who developed it. Simon Dove, head of medical illustration at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital won the ‘Innovation in Service Development’ category of the first […]
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James Paget gets outsider PACS
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust in Norfolk has become the first hospital trust in England to go live with an out-of-cluster PACS system – one supplied by a local service provider from outside the trust’s region. Although the trust sits within the Eastern region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), last Thursday it […]
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Online tool to promote NHS infection awareness
An online training tool to help all NHS staff understand infection control and make hospitals cleaner has been launched by chief nursing officer (CNO), Chris Beasley. Launching the new online tool at the Infection Control Nurses Association annual conference, the CNO said: “This innovative approach to training will mean hundreds and thousands of NHS staff […]
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Electronic mental health record system goes live in Wirral
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Trust has just implemented an electronic patient record system from local company Strand Technology. The CareNotes system also features instant messaging between users, automatic generation of e-mails, faxes and text messages to clients, other staff members and patients themselves, and a web-based interface. This would allow, for instance, notification of […]
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Norfolk hospital gets electronic cancer care system
A hospital in East Anglia has installed an electronic cancer management system in its oncology department, which is designed to bring greater efficiency, greater patient throughput and reduced waiting times. Until now, the software has not been available in Europe. The Colney Centre at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is using VARiS MedOncology from Varian Medical Systems, […]
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Patient Communication Systems Launched
Bedside entertainment and communications systems for hospital patients have been officially launched at Kingston Hospitals NHS Trust. The wall-mounted patient terminals have been installed by private firm Patientline. The terminals will enable patients to use the web and email from their hospital beds, watch digital TV, listen to radio, as well as make and receive […]
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Addenbrooke’s To Develop Web-based Cancer System
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is to build a Web-based clinical cancer information system for use within the trust over NHSnet and by other partners in the local health economy. Called the Joint Clinical Information System project, the project is being run by three project partners – Addenbrooke’s NHS Trust in Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the […]
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