Cerner to offer full 18-week wait reporting by autumn
Evidence of the different approaches being pursued by Fujitsu the NHS IT local service provider (LSP) in the South of England and BT, the LSP for London, has emerged over how to obtain 18-week reporting from the Cerner Millennium software they are both offering. Cerner has exclusively told E-Health Insider that it will provide tools […]
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Millennium R0 not capturing 18 week referrals data
NHS trusts in the South of England using Cerner Millennium Release 0 are not yet able to electronically capture 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) data, one of the government’s key objectives for the NHS. Trusts have been required to report on RTT times since January, with the target to be achieved for all 18-week […]
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Call to use more everyday technology in health
Healthcare should embrace everyday technologies and challenge clinical boundaries by using them, a senior academic told the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate. Dr Jonathan Kay, a professor of health informatics at the City University, London, said that healthcare was too afraid of most everyday technologies but their success as external commodities could easily be applied […]
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DH embraces wireless safety technologies
A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by health minister Lord Hunt. The Department of Health believes that auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) technology has the potential to tackle mismatching errors in particular, as well as bringing other efficiencies and cost savings. Lord […]
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CfH seeks acute trust for blood barcoding pilot
NHS Connecting for Health and the National Patient Safety Agency have announced they are looking for an acute trust to pilot IT specifications for electronic blood tracking. A small, non-teaching hospital trust is sought for the pilot, which will begin in March 2007, to evaluate the IT guidelines developed by the NPSA. The NPSA’s aim […]
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Fully automated blood transfusion in Oxford
The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, has now completed a pilot of its fully automated blood transfusion process in five clinical areas that uses fridges unlocked by barcodes printed out from the patient’s bedside. Mike Murphy, professor of blood transfusion medicine at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, said the system was already bringing benefits to patient safety: "We […]
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John Radcliffe develops e-prescribing for blood
John Radcliffe Hospital, part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, is developing a new electronic prescribing system for blood products to support its transfusion processes. The aim is to improve patient safety and cut inappropriate blood prescribing. The initiative is the latest step in the development of its electronic blood transfusion system, which uses […]
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CSW and Oracle Demonstrate Scalability of Case Notes
CSW Health announced this week it had successfully completed initial scalability tests for its Case Notes shared electronic records system. The tests have been carried out with technology partners including Oracle. John Chelsom, managing director of CSW Health, said: “The Case Notes product is the result of over ten years research and development on XML database […]
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Thames Valley ICRS Collaborative PFI Procurement Suspended
The Thames Valley Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) collaborative procurement has become the latest high-profile NHS electronic records project to be put on hold, following a local decision to halt the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) procurement. At a meeting on 20 June the Programme Board in charge of the Thames Valley project decided to hold […]
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Oxford Clinical Intranet Links Local NHS
The potential of networked local NHS communities is being demonstrated in Oxfordshire by the Oxford Clinical Intranet, which uses easy-to-use Internet technology to make test results electronically available to GPs. Where in the past getting test results depended on doctors making time-consuming phone calls or awaiting paper results by mail, the new system — developed […]
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