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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Frimley Park goes live with Picis
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with surgical, anaesthesia, recovery room and critical care software solutions from Picis. The trust signed a contract with Picis late in 2008 after the trust’s chief executive, Andrew Morris, went to see the system in action at William Osler Centre in Canada. It purchased eight modules […]
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Tech vital to medication adherence
Information technology has a vital role to lay in cutting medication-related errors and improving medication adherence among older people, suggests a recent report. The report says that of the 3 billion medication prescriptions issued each year in the US, 12% are never picked up by the patient and 40% are not taken correctly. Published by […]
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North East Essex tags infants
The Fryatt Hospital in Harwich, Essex, has installed a new infant protection system to prevent children from being abducted. Infants at the trust can now wear a Hugs tag attached to their ankle by a soft tamper-proof strap. A computer console displays images of floor plans of the area which show tag locations with monitored […]
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Community hospital first for TPP
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire has become the first primary care trust in the country to implement TPP’s SystmOne Community Hospital module.
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Two Scottish NHS bodies rapped by ICO
The Information Commissioner’s Office has told two different Scottish NHS bodies they must tighten data security after a series of data breaches. In one incident, a senior nursing manager in NHS Grampian inappropriately emailed 50 staff with sensitive personal details relating to a patient. In another incident, NHS Education for Scotland had a laptop containing […]
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Newcastle prepares for go-live
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is preparing to go-live with the electronic patient record system for which it partnered with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre last year.
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World wide EMIS Web
EMIS is not backward about coming forward with its next generation system, EMIS Web. Fiona Barr reports.
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EMIS Web links to secondary care
Leading GP IT system supplier EMIS has unveiled its next generation IT system EMIS Web, promising interoperability with primary and secondary care providers. EMIS claims the system will set a new standard for the NHS, by enabling clinicians outside general practice to access a patient’s GP medical record, view other patient information recorded on the […]
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Wireless days
Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Hospital NHS Trust won the best use of wireless healthcare category of last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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