Southampton to deploy 18-week reporting system
Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust is to deploy a new 18-week wait, data warehouse and patient level costing system from Ardentia, in a bid to meet targets and monitor costs. The trust will use Ardentia’s Pathway Manager in order to meet national 18-week reporting requirements and manage patient pathways from initial GP referral to acute […]
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Southampton deploys Aruba wireless network
Southampton University Hospital Trust staff will soon be able to communicate with each other using Star Trek style badges, after the trust deployed a new wireless network from Aruba. The trust wanted a wireless trust that would “leverage a lot more out of our existing systems and benefit both patients and staff,” Ryan Hewitt, senior network […]
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Southampton links walk-in centres
Southampton City Primary Care Trust has connected its three walk-in centres to a new community-wide network of electronic patient records, provided by Clinical Solutions. The new system will help the three walk-in centres operate as a single virtual organisation. Patients can be seen as soon as possible in any of the three centres as staff […]
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Arden Cancer Centre extends EMR
Cancer care staff at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust should be able to access electronic medical records for all patients by Christmas. The trust use Impac’s Electonic Medical Record (EMR) software, delivered by Elekta, to create and keep a full electronic record of every cancer patient that visits one of their clinics. […]
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EuroKing delivers ViewPoint to three NHS trusts
EuroKing Miracle has announced that it has successfully installed the latest version of GE’s ViewPoint gynaecological and pre-natal diagnosis systems into three NHS hospital trusts in the last month. Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Jubilee Maternity Service in Belfast have integrated the system into their obstetric and […]
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PACS passes halfway stage in London and South
The programme to deploy Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in London and the South of England has passed the halfway stage. The milestone was passed 16 months after the first PACS from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) went live in the London cluster. Some 33 trusts have now rolled out PACS in the two […]
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Hants and IOW share records for 1.5 million patients
Hospital and GP records for 1.5 million patients are to be available for the NHS to share in a ground-breaking project launched ahead of the national NHS Care Records Service. The Clinical Data Repository (CDR) set up by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Strategic Health Authority has gone live this month with GP records for […]
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Nursing IT study to look at local systems
The Department of Health has funded a £250,000, two-year study into how nurses use IT when making clinical decisions and the level of training and information available to them when using the systems. The study, which will be undertaken in collaboration between York, Southampton and Loughborough universities, will concentrate on individual specialised local systems in […]
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NHS Direct web chat feasible but pricey, pilot finds
An NHS Direct Online Clinical Enquiry Service (CES), through which a nurse can discuss symptoms with patients over an web-based chat connection, could be expensive and take up too much time, a report from the Journal of Medical Internet Research shows. The pilot, which took place over six days in a GP’s practice in Coventry, concentrated on non-urgent […]
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Healthcare IT awards finalists announced
IT applications in a wide variety of healthcare settings are represented by seven finalists for the 2004 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards announced this week. The finalists, drawn from around the country will compete for four awards covering: best use of IT in secondary and tertiary care; best use of IT in primary and community care; […]
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