Wirral Health Informatics Service extends EHR capabilities
The Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS) has extended the capability of its pilot electronic health record (EHR) system by installing a forms creation toolkit from i-Health. According to New Zealand-based health IT vendor i-Health, the new toolkit will enable WHIS to provide a Wirral-wide solution for referrals, orders and messaging, for all its "customers" in […]
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Wirral Connects to Online Bed Vacancy Service
Wirral residents and care homes are set to benefit from a new online service designed to simplify the process of locating suitable residential care beds and help reduce one of the causes of bed blocking in hospitals. The Metropolitan Borough of Wirral is set to begin using an online and email bed vacancy service, called […]
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Let Pioneers Keep on Pioneering, Says Frank Burns
One of the best known pioneers of IT in the NHS has issued an eloquent plea for trusts that make the running to be allowed to stay ahead while national standards are raised. Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, Merseyside, and one of the principal authors of the 1998 NHS IT strategy, […]
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Top Effectiveness Prize for Wirral
An automated dispensing system that has saves staff time and reduces drug dispensing errors took the top prize in the 2002 Healthcare IT Effectiveness Awards. The system was the brainchild of a team at the Wirral Hospital NHS Trust, one of the UK centres most closely associated with pioneering IT developments. The team developed new […]
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