CCIO profile: Kim Ashall
The de-facto chief clinical information officer at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust speaks to reporter Rebecca Todd.
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N3 ‘stifling innovation’
The N3 network is stifling innovation, preventing sharing of information and addressing fundamentally the wrong security question, a question time session at eHealth Insider Live 2010 agreed.
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Rotherham chooses BridgeHead
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to BridgeHead Software to provide data and storage management as part of its wider project to implement an electronic patient record system. The trust, which recently announced that it will push back the go-live of its Meditech EPR from November 2010 to July 2011, signed a […]
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The Rotherham EPR to use FDB database
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust will integrate First DataBank’s drug database into its Meditech electronic patient record, which is due to go live in November. The trust has announced it will integrate First DataBank’s Multilex Drug Data File to support eprescribing within its Meditech V6.0 EPR, supplied by Filetek UK. The move will enable it […]
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Rotherham: NPfIT has put us back 10 yrs
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS has “put back the contribution of IT in the NHS by more than ten years.”
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The Rotherham slams ‘unhelpful’ SHA
Brian James, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, has said its strategic health authority threatened it with a “double whammy” of costs to stop it going outside the National Programme for IT in the NHS. In a controversial speech at E-Health Insider Live ’09 about the trust’s decision to choose the US Meditech v6.0 electronic patient […]
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Dell to buy Perot Systems
Dell has launched an agreed offer to buy computer services firm Perot Systems Corp in a cash deal valued at £2.7 billion.
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Speakers for E-Health Insider Live ‘09
The speaker list has been unveiled for E-Health Insider Live ’09 – the essential conference and exhibition being held at The ICC, Birmingham, on 9-10 November. Speakers already confirmed for the event include the leaders of the two companies charged with delivering ‘strategic’ electronic patient record systems to the NHS, iSoft and Cerner. Don Trigg, managing […]
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Blackpool uses ASCC for EPR procurement
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has begun a procurement process for elements of an electronic patient record using the ASCC framework catalogue.
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Perot to help implement Meditech at Rotherham
US health software firm Meditech has announced that Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has selected its 6.0 Health Care Information System (HCIS) as its primary software provider. Perot Systems will provide consultancy services in implementing the software at the Foundation Trust. E-Health Insider first reported in March that Rotherham had selected Meditech to provide it with […]
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