East Kent gets £6m for Allscripts
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has received £6 million in central funding to support the implementation of Allscripts’ patient administration system and a maternity system from EuroKing.
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Betsi Cadwaladr to implement Myrddin
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in Wales has received a £6.2 million investment from the Welsh government to implement the national patient administration system Myrddin.
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United Lincolnshire upgrades Medway
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust will upgrade to a new version of System C’s Medway patient administration system following a series of issues with the previous version.
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Chesterfield plans PAS ‘re-launch’
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is planning a “re-launch” of its System C Medway patient administration system after suffering a series of post-implementation problems that caused waiting list backlogs.
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Medway live with Oasis/Allscripts PAS
Medway NHS Foundation Trust went live with its a patient administration system over the weekend in what its director of informatics has described as “an absolutely exemplary implementation – so far.”
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EHI Awards 2014: Core beliefs
Dr Paul Upton from Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust was this year’s winner of the ‘CCIO award for clinical informatics leadership’. Claire Read finds out how he has turned a job for a former medical director into a transformative role.
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Royal Brompton takes Lorenzo
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust has agreed a deal with CSC to deploy its Lorenzo and Medchart systems.
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Abertawe integrates portal and PAS
The Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board in Wales has integrated its ward-based clinical portal with the national Myrddin patient administration system to give nurses easier access to real-time patient information.
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Totalcare data centres shut in February
NHS trusts running the legacy McKesson Totalcare patient administration system have been warned they must move off the hosted service before the system’s data centres close in February next year.
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Sherwood live with Medway PAS
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with its Medway patient administration system.
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