BT to deliver Theatre Manager in London
BT has signed an agreement with specialist developers, Picis, to deliver new operating theatre management systems to six hospital trusts in London under Connecting for Health. Picis Theatre Manager is a British version of the Picis OR Manager, used in operating rooms across the US. Theatre Manager will be implemented to provide complete surgical scheduling, patient […]
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Buckinghamshire goes live with Cerner
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has become the third NHS trust in the South of England to begin to use clinical software from Cerner under the £12.4bn National Programme for IT. The Amersham and Wycombe Hospitals, Chalfont & Gerrards Cross Hospital and Marlow Cottage Hospital all went live at eight yesterday morning, after a day of […]
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CfH aims to install at 22 acute trusts by October
NHS Connecting for Health and its prime contractors have told a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee that they will deliver at least 22 new patient administration system (PAS) replacements to NHS acute trusts by the end of October this year. The figure does not include any London trusts. To date the programme has […]
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Enfield PCT back to paper after computer failure
A London PCT has had to switch off its computer system and start recording patients’ details with pen and paper while it waits for a replacement to be delivered by the NHS IT programme. Enfield Primary Care Trust has switched off its two ageing iSoft PiMS patient administration systems, after experiencing frequent problems and interruptions to the service — including outages […]
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OmegaIP releases lone worker system
OmegaIP has released a phone-based lone worker protection system aimed at health and social care staff that allows users to discreetly alert others if they are in danger as well as synchronise with their appointments calender. The Lone Worker system (seen right on a PDA emulation) can be set to call the user’s mobile every […]
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Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire
Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK, has announced that he will retire this summer. In 1997, Burns was seconded by the Department of Health for 15 months as head of information management and technology at the NHS Executive with a remit to […]
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CSC implements new theatre system at Royal Liverpool
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to go live with a new theatre system, provided by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as part of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands region of the £6.2 billion NPfIT […]
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Cerner and Fujitsu deliver first South implementation
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first hospital in the South of England to go live with an electronic patient records system from Cerner, implemented by Fujitsu, under the NHS National Programme for IT. The initial implementation comes almost two years after Fujitsu was first awarded an £896 million local service provider (LSP) […]
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Preventing errors in phone consultations
A reminder to doctors to beware of the pitfalls of using the telephone to communicate with patients has come from researchers at Yale School of Medicine. Using a case-based approach, the article in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, shows how errors in telephone communication can result in outcomes ranging from inconvenience and anxiety to […]
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Devon chooses Consensus for learning management
A learning management system supplied by CS Group has been chosen by five NHS trusts in the South Devon NHS Community to support their learning and development programmes. CS Group will supply the five trusts with its Consensus Learning Management System (LMS), which will initially be used to support the local training and administration requirements of the […]
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