NHS Fife begins electronic discharge summary project
Capula Healthcare has announced that it has started a pilot project with the NHS Fife operational division to electronically record patient hospital discharge information, which will then become available to GPs. The project, which will use Capula’s Oasis patient administration software, forms part of NHS Fife’s electronic health record programme known as HOISS (Healthcare Organisations […]
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Oasis chosen by Dudley as preferred PAS application
Dudley Hospital NHS Trust and Siemens Medical Solutions have selected Capula Healthcare to supply and implement its Oasis Patient Administration System (PAS), as part of the ongoing Private Finance Initiative project at the trust. Siemens has worked with Dudley under a PFI deal for four years to provide new IT systems and digital imaging. The […]
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Online lottery for NHS dentist registration
A company contracted to set up eight new NHS dental practices in North Wales are encouraging prospective patients to apply for registration online or by text, to prevent people from queuing up outside to register. Online and text list application was stipulated by the local health boards as part of the tender for supplying NHS […]
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Oasis Live at Brighton
Capula Elan has announced that Brighton Hospital NHS Trust has gone live with its new Oasis Patient Administration System (PAS), delivered as a managed service by Siemens Healthcare Services. The project has merged two different PAS solutions, taken six months to complete and was delivered on time and to budget. The single new Oasis PAS system […]
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Good Hope Hospital Buys Oasis PAS
Good Hope Hospital NHS Trust has signed a contract with Siemens Healthcare Services to provide it with a new Patient Administration System (PAS). The new system will be provided as a managed service and will be based on the Oasis PAS system, supplied by Siemens partner, Capula Elan. Features of the Oasis PAS systems to […]
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HC 2003 – Pick of the Product and Service News
Healthcare Computing is a traditional launch pad for healthcare IT products and services and the industry did not disappoint this year. We list below a selection of the new launches, versions and deals announced at Harrogate last week. Click here for a full list of exhibitors. Telemedicine Solutions from Tandberg Tandberg demonstrated its videoconferencing solution, […]
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Fife’s EPR Implemented Early
Siemens Healthcare Services has announced that Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has successfully gone live with the first stage of an electronic patient record (EPR) system supplied by Capula Elan across three hospital sites six weeks early. Half a million patient records from the legacy Homer patient administration system (PAS) at Victoria Hospital & Forth Park […]
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Brighton and Sussex selects Capula Elan
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a three-year deal to Capula Elan to modernise its ageing patient administration systems (PAS). Capula Elan will replace the trust’s existing PAS systems, supplied by Torex and IRC, with its Oasis system. The three-year contract covers two major hospital sites and six organisations. The deal is […]
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Capula Acquires Elan Technologies
Elan Technologies, the UK provider of healthcare information systems, has been acquired by Capula Ltd, a provider of IT solutions to the energy, healthcare, utilities, industrial and public sector markets. The deal comes at a critical time in NHS IT with the government widely expected to commit significant new investment into computerising the health service. […]
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Royal Surrey Selects Oasis for Physio
Royal Surrey Hospitals has awarded Elan Technologies a contract to develop a dedicated information module for the physiotherapy department to integrate it into the hospital electronic patient record system. The hospital has been using an EPR system supplied by Oasis since 1996. Terms of the deal for the new module were not disclosed. The physiotherapy […]
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