Winchester goes live with latest Cerner
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has became the first in the South of England to upgrade its Cerner Millennium electronic patient record system to the London version.
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Royal Hants deploys MSoft bloodtracking
The Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester has begun rolling out a blood tracking system from Msoft across 20 of its wards. MSoft will provide a web-based, electronic tracking system that will control staff access to blood fridges and provide a bedside management system to match barcoded blood units to barcoded patient wristbands. Dr Shaun Webb, […]
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Record makers
The Summary Care Record is not the only shared record project in town. Sarah Bruce reports on how Hampshire and Birmingham are sharing information using Graphnet technology.
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DH gives go ahead to Cerner upgrades
The Department of Health has given the go ahead to a Cerner upgrade across London and the South of England that had stalled over concerns over data transfer from the UK to the US.
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Merseyside chooses JAC for e-prescribing
The North Mersey Health Informatics Service has selected JAC to provide an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system to more than three million patients across Merseyside.
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At least four southern trusts plan for Lorenzo
At least four hospitals in the South of England intend to implement Lorenzo, according to informatics plans, with community and mental health trusts taking systems from both TPP and CSE-Servelec. In NHS South Central, several hospital trusts that have yet to receive a system under the National Programme for IT in the NHS appear to be planning […]
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Lessons learned
Southern England, perhaps more than any other region, has produced a mixed picture of NHS IT modernisation. Senior executives from local service provider, Fujitsu, explain the real situation as they see it.
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Southern SHAs assess alternatives for mental health IT
Strategic health authorities in the South of England are evaluating alternative software options to the version of Cerner Millennium being offered by Fujitsu under the NHS IT Programme (NPfIT). Fujitsu, the local service provider for the South, has told E-Health Insider, that it is working with SHAs and trusts to provide them with systems that best […]
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Millennium R0 not capturing 18 week referrals data
NHS trusts in the South of England using Cerner Millennium Release 0 are not yet able to electronically capture 18 week referral to treatment (RTT) data, one of the government’s key objectives for the NHS. Trusts have been required to report on RTT times since January, with the target to be achieved for all 18-week […]
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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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