Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of its acute-care sites. The project, which JAC claims is the largest of its kind in the UK, will see company’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system deployed to cover 1,800 beds and all the […]
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Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’
Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’ plan being activated, with some ambulances redirected from A&E. The network failure was one of the most severe known to have occurred at an NHS hospital trust. To clean and restore the infected network, Barts […]
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On the right pathway
The latest column from NHS Connecting for Health looks at the work of the award winning NHS Pathways team.
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That was the year that was…
Keogh promotes use of the NHS Number
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has written to all NHS chief executives and medical directors to promote wider use of the NHS Number. In a letter, the NHS medical director tells chief executives that implementing the NHS Number is not just about data quality or finding the number to put on a record so that data sets are complete. […]
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists
E-Health Insider’s industry round up 13.11.2008
The E-Health Insider industry round up returns to cover system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Three London trusts automate medical supply systems Omnicell and its UK distributor Aventec have announced that two London foundation trusts have jointly selected OmniSupplier cabinet systems to improve their management of medical […]
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Healthcare Interoperability: read all about it
Almost 400 delegates attended E-Health Insider’s event in Birmingham at an interesting time for NHS IT. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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Chester aims at discharge summary target
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has introduced software from Medisec to meet NHS targets for the delivery of discharge summaries. The system allows the trust to know when clinical correspondence has been delivered to GPs, helping it to meet targets in the NHS standard contract. This says that trusts must deliver discharge summaries to […]
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Standards set for the structure of medical records
Profession-wide standards for medical records in hospitals have been agreed for the first time.
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