Survey reveals missing NHS computers
Medical equipment and computers worth tens of millions of pounds is being lost or stolen from NHS hospital wards every year, a survey has revealed. A Freedom of Information Act survey of 100 trusts by More4 News found that 522 computers or laptops had been stolen or lost over the past three years. Reporters for […]
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Model for the future
In a personal opinion article Pete Marsh, Technical Director of Wirral Health Informatics Service offers an alternative model for the future, questioning the value of PAS systems in clinical settings.
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Capex becomes Eceptionist’s UK partner
Capex Health, a systems developer and training provider, have been named as the UK partner for Eceptionist, specialists in internet based scheduling services. Eceptionist is a web-based solution from the US, already in use in the UK, that supports scheduling, telemedicine, disease and case management, care pathways, protocols and reporting for facilities and hospitals. The […]
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Winchester first on second generation e-prescribing
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust has become the first UK trust to install a second generation Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration system, developed by JAC Computer Services. The 450-bed Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester is thought to be first UK hospital trust to replace an existing EPMA with a next generation system, a […]
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Wirral rolls out electronic ordering to GPs
GP practices across Wirral and surrounding areas in North-west England are due to rollout a new electronic ordering system for laboratory tests. Wirral Remote Order Communications System (WROCS) was piloted in four practices between March and May. Wirral Health Informatics Service says plans are now underway to fully implement WROCS to Wirral’s 60 GP practices […]
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Honour for health informatics technical director
Technical director of Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS), Pete Marsh has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Wirral is one of the leading trusts in the health informatics field and has pioneered developments in areas such as electronic records and e-prescribing. Marsh has been part of the workforce at Wirral Hospital […]
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Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact
NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact, the web-based e-mail service it procured for the health service at a total cost of up to £90m. At Healthcare Computing 2006 last month CfH chief executive Richard Granger castigated NHS trusts for not fully […]
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NHS trusts urged to rethink mobile policies
NHS trusts are being urged to rethink their policies on mobile phone use, due to public concerns over the high cost of bedside telephone services, such as those provided by Patientline and Premier The call comes from Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) Forums, which argues that patients and the public should be offered the choice […]
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Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire
Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK, has announced that he will retire this summer. In 1997, Burns was seconded by the Department of Health for 15 months as head of information management and technology at the NHS Executive with a remit to […]
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