EHI’s industry round up 28.01.2010
This month’s industry round up has news about contracts, company partnerships, the launch of a US interoperability company in the UK, and new appointments at the top of CSC. Northern Ireland’s health service sticks with CRYPTOCard Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland has decided to upgrade to to BlackShield ID, CRYPTOCard’s premier authentication service. […]
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Cancer network completes Aria roll out
The Thames Valley Cancer Network has completed the roll out of Aria for Medical Oncology from Varian Medical Systems. The network, which links cancer centres in Oxford and Reading with district general hospitals in Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, has implemented the system over a year, with Great Western Hospital in Swindon becoming the latest to […]
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King’s showcases e-prescribing roll-out
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has started rolling out its iSoft e-prescribing system trust-wide. The system enables prescribers to order their patient’s medication electronically and view scheduled and administered medications on an electronic drug chart via the iSoft Clinical Manager electronic patient record system. The trust is one of the first to use the […]
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IT rules
Sarah Bruce goes to King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s annual IT open day – and is surprised to find that a lot of its staff have had the same idea.
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‘Four more years’ for McKesson
The Department of Health is negotiating four year support deals for the 21 NHS hospital trusts running McKesson patient administration systems.
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Newham plans next steps with Cerner
Newham University Hospital NHS Trust says it is planning to use its Cerner Millennium system to deliver integrated patient care pathways.
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CfH gives go-ahead for IE7
NHS Connecting for Health has said organisations still using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 should move to IE7, following security concerns about the older browser. The Department of Health signed a national licensing deal with Microsoft in October 2001 that lead to the majority of NHS trusts using IE 6 for internet and intranet access. In […]
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Milton Keynes first on Microsoft Amalga
Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust has become the first UK customer for Microsoft’s healthcare data aggregation platform.
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One in ten child prescriptions wrong
More than one in ten prescriptions given to children in hospitals contain errors and almost a fifth of drugs are incorrectly administered, according to a newly published study by the University of London. The study is believed to be the largest of its kind in the UK and reports far higher error rates than previous […]
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£40m NPfIT legal bills revealed
Almost £40m has been paid to two law firms for legal and commercial support for the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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