NME at the gate
Sarah Bruce surveys the state of the National Programme for IT in the NHS in the North, Midlands and East of England, where the battle is to get Lorenzo live.
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King’s showcases e-prescribing roll-out
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has started rolling out its iSoft e-prescribing system trust-wide. The system enables prescribers to order their patient’s medication electronically and view scheduled and administered medications on an electronic drug chart via the iSoft Clinical Manager electronic patient record system. The trust is one of the first to use the […]
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Novell Identity Manager at Maudsley
South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is using Novell Identity Manager to manage the user accounts of more than 8,000 staff. NHS Connecting for Health has an enterprise licence agreement in place for Novell Identity Manager, but the trust worked with Salford Software on the implementation. The system collects data from the NHS […]
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Caring, sharing
Individual hospitals have PACS in place: but whatever happened to image sharing? Linda Davidson and Daloni Carlisle investigate.
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ICO issues privacy guide; Salford rapped
The Information Commissioner’s Office has urged organisations to consider privacy before developing new IT systems or changing the way they handle personal information. The call was made as the ICO issued the latest version of its Privacy Impact Assessment handbook, and days after yet another NHS trust was rapped for breaching data protection rules. Salford […]
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CfH aims for 4 million HealthSpace users by 2014
NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by 2014. The ambitious target is understood to form part of the business case for HealthSpace, for which Treasury funding is being sought. Development plans for the patient portal are still awaiting Treasury approval. HealthSpace has […]
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DH funds collaborative ICT research
Information and Communications technology features in five of the seven partnerships which are receiving a share of the £64m research grant for studies looking at major conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The new National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Health Research and Care sites were announced by health minister, Dawn Primarolo, […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 09.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 9 May 2008 featuring supplier news, appointments and awards. Supplier news Salford deploy CACI management information system Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has chosen the InView management information system from CACI to improve clinical reporting and support the their quality agenda. InView, which utilises a […]
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Website enables NHS trauma care comparisons
Hospitals can compare their performances in trauma care against other trusts on a new website developed by the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN). TARN was founded by the University of Manchester and Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, and helps hospitals to collect and evaluate data on their trauma care (treatment of serious injuries such […]
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iSoft chosen as reseller of mobile clinical assistant
Motion Computing have chosen iSoft to be the first UK-based solution reseller for the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged and washable tablet-PC style device specifically designed to provide doctors and nurses with access to updated patient records and the ability to document a patient’s condition. Incorporating Intel’s latest wireless technology the MCA features a […]
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