Rotherham NHS FT receives outstanding rating for digital agenda
The trust has made “good progress” with its digital agenda and inspectors saw “evidence of innovative use of technology”, the report said.
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Rotherham asks Monitor to back off
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is to ask Monitor to relax its oversight of its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record programme.
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Rotherham community get moving
Rotherham community clinicians have quicker and easier remote access to TPP’s SystmOne following the deployment of SafeMove.
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Rotherham plans EPR turn-around
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust aims to have resolved the majority of issues with its Meditech v6.0 electronic patient record implementation by next month.
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Burton plans Meditech v6.0

The life of Brian
Brian James, the outspoken chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, spoke to Lyn Whitfield as he got ready to retire after a working life spent shaking up NHS IT.
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N3 ‘stifling innovation’
The N3 network is stifling innovation, preventing sharing of information and addressing fundamentally the wrong security question, a question time session at eHealth Insider Live 2010 agreed.
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James says EPR must pay for itself
Brian James, chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, has spelt out how the trust will fund its new EPR, which is due to go live in May 2011.
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Rotherham chooses BridgeHead
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract to BridgeHead Software to provide data and storage management as part of its wider project to implement an electronic patient record system. The trust, which recently announced that it will push back the go-live of its Meditech EPR from November 2010 to July 2011, signed a […]
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Rotherham: NPfIT has put us back 10 yrs
The chief executive of The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust has said the National Programme for IT in the NHS has “put back the contribution of IT in the NHS by more than ten years.”
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