Suppliers set out vision for ASCC
EHI spoke to a number of ASCC lot 2 suppliers to see what they hope to achieve from the new framework. Joe Fernandez reports.
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Imperial integration
The UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre is generating a significant systems integration challenge for the merged institution’s IT professionals.
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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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Major overhaul for Addenbrooke’s theatre system
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is upgrade its TheatreMan theatre management system to improve both the day-to-day information available to clinicians and longer term planning. The flagship Cambridge teaching hospital was previously using a dated UNIX version of TheatreMan, which was not in line with other IT developments, and will now to move to the Windows version of the system. […]
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Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has begun piloting iSoft’s iCM clinical management system on two wards, five years after they signed a ten-year deal with the supplier. The trust first signed a contract with iSoft in October 2002, just before the National Programme for IT began in earnest and have been sporadically working on implementing […]
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‘Widespread concerns’ about NPfIT penalties
In a new survey NHS foundation trusts have reported ‘widespread concerns’ about the limited functionality of key systems from the NHS National Programme for IT. Some foundation trusts (FTs) that have sought to delay taking systems until problems are fixed say they have been told to expect fines running into many millions of pounds. The FTs […]
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Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out
Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management system into 16 hospitals in Northern Ireland. As part of the project Newgate have begun work on piloting their theatre electronic patient record (EPR) software, a system called Nexus, at the Belfast City Hospital. The […]
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Moorfields goes live with locally developed EPR
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London has gone live with a new electronic patient record (EPR) system developed by the trust together with Stalis and supported by Intersystems. The new EPR, known at the trust as the Moorfields Care Record Management Service (MCRS) is a highly specialised EPR designed to meet the particular […]
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DH embraces wireless safety technologies
A new strategy document looking at the use of smart wireless wristbands and barcode labelling technologies has been launched by health minister Lord Hunt. The Department of Health believes that auto-identification and data capture (AIDC) technology has the potential to tackle mismatching errors in particular, as well as bringing other efficiencies and cost savings. Lord […]
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Heartlands uses RFID for patient identification
The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Safe Surgery Systems Ltd a contract to supply a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) patient identification system that links to electronic patient records on PDAs, allowing staff to identify patients before they go for surgery. Hear of England will use wireless PDA’s and patient wristbands fitted with […]
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