East Cheshire chooses CliniSys for chemo prescribing
East Cheshire NHS Trust has awarded a chemotherapy prescribing solution contract to CliniSys Oncology. CliniSys will deploy its ChemoCare solution in the trust later this year where it will provide an e-prescribing solution for adult, solid tumour and haematological oncology at the Macclesfield District General Hospital site. Once implemented, CliniSys says the system will help […]
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BMA calls for inquiry into NHS Direct referrals
The British Medical Association has called for an inquiry into the NHS’s information and advice service, NHS Direct, claiming it is ‘putting a strain on the system’. The move has been backed by the NHS Alliance and Association of Professional Ambulance Personnel who feel that call handlers are referring too many patients to GPs or […]
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Safety now number one priority for CfH
Professor Michael Thick, the chief clinical officer for Connecting for Health, explains how the agency has made patient safety its number one concern.
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Researchers warn NPfIT delays risking patient safety
Lack of effective communication and delivery delays are leaving trusts disenfranchised and weakening local commitment to rolling out the National Programme for IT creating risks to patient safety, leading academics have warned. Competing priorities, lack of financial resources and repeated delays in the delivery of new systems are all said to be hindering efforts by […]
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Consumer is king in wireless health
More consumer-driven wireless developments are on the horizon as mobile technology enjoys wider adoption in healthcare.
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Patient safety tops IT priorities in CIO poll
Implementing information technology to reduce medical errors and promote patient safety remains the top priority for healthcare chief information officers (CIO) surveyed in a major US poll. The 18th Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) survey of CIOs found that safety issues remained the respondents’ prime concern both for now and for the future. […]
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Atos Origin’s £257m DH diagnostics contract suspended
A £257m contract for diagnostic services in North-west and South-west England awarded to Atos Origin last December has been suspended after the Department of Health (DH) ordered an independent review following concerns about quality and administrative procedures. Atos Origin had been working with eight PCTs in the North-west since December but some ultrasound and MRI scan […]
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Vital signs system monitors patients electronically
A new hand-held computer system called VitalPAC, which allows staff to input patients’ vital signs electronically from the bedside, has been deployed at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust. VitalPAC is a software system designed by hospital improvement specialist The Learning Clinic in conjunction with Microsoft and the trust, which records, stores and analyses vital signs data, […]
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PACS roll-out milestone hit in London and the South
All NHS hospital trusts across London and the South of England have now received systems to enable them to capture and store digital diagnostic images as part of the health service IT modernisation programme. NHS Connecting for Health, the agency responsible for NHS IT, yesterday confirmed to E-Health insider that 56 digital picture archiving and […]
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FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system. Siemens and FDBE have already worked together in America, and will now collaborate to integrate the decision support system into the UK version of Soarian. Siemens’ IT solutions business […]
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