Cerner switches on at St James, Dublin
A new Cerner system at St. James Hospital, Dublin, the Republic of Ireland’s largest hospital, combines data, imaging, orders and results and establishes the foundation for a full electronic patient record. Cerner says patient care will benefit from the successful switch-on of what it describes as a landmark system that unites diverse and complex computer […]
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Doctors test out RFID system for handovers
Doctors at the Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust are testing the use of RFID technology for patient handovers. David Morgan, consultant ENT surgeon at the trust, who is also surgical safety adviser to the National Patient Safety Agency, explained the system to the Clinical Care Computing conference in London last week. Birmingham Heartlands […]
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iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby
iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nearing completion on the trust’s surgical and urology departments. Following this initial pilot of the order communications component of iCM – enabling clinicians to electronically order and receive test results – is now being rolled […]
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Germany’s team
The World Cup is not Frankfurt’s only major event this summer. Phillipp Grätzel reports from ITeG, the German healthcare IT industry conference.
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City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing
City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the specification and development of a new module by US vendor, Meditech, which has been extensively anglicised for the UK, plus a programme of business change by clinical staff. David Miller, business manager for pharmacy at […]
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North Staffs prepares for big bang
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is getting ready to go live with patient administration and clinical systems from iSoft some three years after it first signed the contract – and over two years late. April 30 marked the third anniversary of North Staffordshire NHS Trust signing a contract with iSoft for its iPM patient […]
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Birmingham and Solihull extends patient RFID tagging
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it is to further expand its trial of tagging surgical patients with RFID wristbands. E-Health Insider reported in October 2004 the trials of a tagging system in the ENT department of the Heart of England trust, then called Birmingham Heartlands and Solihill NHS Trust. Patients arriving […]
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’
A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS trusts working on paper for a week after a disaster was ‘not acceptable’. Sunil Patel, development director of Accenture, LSP for the North east and Eastern regions of England, was referring to the disaster at […]
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iSoft warns of ‘significant’ NPfIT delays
British healthcare software developer iSOFT has warned that delays in delivering software to the UK National Health Service would slash its previous revenue and profit forecasts. In a trading statement this morning the company said that total full-year revenue generated from the programme is expected to be around £30m, about £55m pounds below previous expectations, […]
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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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