Former Rewired Pitchfest finalist Concentric Health wins £500k investment
Rewired Pitchfest 2021 finalist, Concentric Health is looking to expansion thanks to a £500,000 investment to support its growth.
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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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Dementia tool is covered in CQUINs
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is using software developed with IMS Maxims to help meet its Commissioning for Quality and Innovation targets for dementia care.
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Royal Cornwall takes plunge with Oceano
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded CSE Healthcare a three year contract to deliver an emergency department information system.
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IMS Maxims order comms at Royal Cornwall
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented a new order communications system from IMS Maxims across 12 of its sites on the mainland and the Isles of Scilly.
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Cornwall integrates breast screening
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has streamlined its breast imaging system to fully integrate it with the National Breast Screening Service system. The trust has implemented six syngo MammoReport workstations from Siemens to provide reading and reporting of mammograms in both screening and diagnostic settings. The workstations, which are based at the Mermaid Centre […]
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Great Ormond Street order comms deal
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has signed a deal with IMS Maxims to implement order communications and results reporting. The system will enable more than 2,000 healthcare professionals to order pathology and radiology tests and then review the results alongside the original request. It will also allow orders to be placed for […]
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Trust loads C+B referrals manually
An NHS acute trust has been using staff to manually upload paper referrals to boost its Choose and Book performance against government targets. A report to the board of NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly says: “Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has been uploading paper referrals to the Choose and Book system to improve performance.” […]
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Trusts fail to discipline staff over data breaches
NHS managers are failing to take action against staff who are involved in data breaches, according to the GP magazine Pulse. The magazine says it used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain information about breaches of confidentiality and data losses from 47 NHS organisations. It found there had been188 reported incidents of staff breaching […]
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Cornwall tracks theatre products digitally
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying a new patient-level resource management system from COA Solutions to help keep track of product expenditure and stock levels in its operating theatres. The system, which uses barcode scanning technology, will replace previous paper-based stock management processes, which had been considered costly and inefficient. The Patient Resource […]
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