Maternity delivery delays
Maternity systems form a core part of Local Service Providers’ contracts under the NHS IT programme, but delivery has been painfully slow resulting in some trusts opting for alternative systems, Joe Fernandez investigates.
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New Eclipse MIS will support major research
A new Eclipse maternity information system delivered by Huntleigh Healthcare has been customised to support Born in Bradford – a large study that will track the progress of more than 10,000 babies from pregnancy to adulthood. The maternity information system (MIS) went live in Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at the end of January. EHI […]
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns
A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting difficulties with the system "could have an impact on all remaining Cluster R0 go-live dates". The trust board paper seen by EHI warns that should delays to the availability of a system that meets requirements […]
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East Surrey goes live with new maternity system
East Surrey Hospital has gone live with the first implementation of a new maternity information system called Eclipse MIS. The system from Huntleigh Healthcare has been implemented over the past six months and required the migration of 25,000 patient records from the maternity unit’s old Protos system. The unit handles 4,000 deliveries a year and […]
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Fujitsu’s Cerner delays mount in the South
Three more trusts have had to postpone Fujitsu implementations of Cerner Millennium in the South at short notice, as go-live dates for hospital systems slip further across the region. The delays mean that a key Connecting for Health delivery pledge will be missed. The three latest sites to announce delays include Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, […]
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Implementation dates for hospitals continue to slip
An investigation by E-Health Insider has found that two-thirds of the 22 NHS acute trusts that were meant to be receiving a replacement patient administration system by the end of October say they will not hit the target. In late June NHS Connecting for Health and its local service providers told Richard Bacon MP, a […]
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Two trusts to use new Eclipse maternity system
Bradford Teaching Hospitals and Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trusts are poised to start implementing a new maternity information system which brings together care records and information from fetal monitoring. The system, Eclipse MIS, has been developed by Huntleigh Healthcare, makers of non-invasive healthcare devices, and Care Records, a company specialising in clinical records. Care Records was bought recently […]
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