Digital hospital
EHI looks at how a futuristic hospital in Norway can show what benefits an integrated approach to communications can bring to patient care.
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Newcastle goes out to tender for EPR
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to break ranks with the NHS Connecting for Health IT programme and go out to tender for a new clinical information system. The large acute trust has this month placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for a new […]
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NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets
Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure needed to achieve service transformation and support greater efficiency and patient safety, a session at HC2006 heard. The panel discussion led by the Intellect Healthcare Group looked at Intellect forecasts which show actual NHS spending […]
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‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution
Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic next-generation clinical system for another two or three years. E-Health Insider has learned that since late December in the North East, Eastern and North West and West Midlands regions, NHS Connecting for Health has stopped […]
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Cerner and Fujitsu deliver first South implementation
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first hospital in the South of England to go live with an electronic patient records system from Cerner, implemented by Fujitsu, under the NHS National Programme for IT. The initial implementation comes almost two years after Fujitsu was first awarded an £896 million local service provider (LSP) […]
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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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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS
Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient administration system (PAS) connected to the national NHS spine. The implementation marks a genuine milestone for Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT); BT, NPfIT’s prime contractor for London; and […]
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Wirral’s gateway to care
Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical IT systems.
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Europe making progress to eHospitals
A major new survey of IT use in almost 900 European hospitals, including 73 in the UK, has found that their number one priority for IT investment is in document management systems, to help manage paper medical records and as a step towards integrated electronic medical records. The research, which was carried out by Silicon […]
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NHS CRS delayed by nine months in South
The delivery schedule for the core NHS Care Records Service (CRS) solution in the South of England has slipped by nine months. The key release that will start to deliver clinical functionality such as order communications is now not due until June 2006 at the earliest. E-Health Insider has learned that the Southern Cluster Implementation […]
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