E-Health Insider’s industry round up 13.11.2008
The E-Health Insider industry round up returns to cover system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Three London trusts automate medical supply systems Omnicell and its UK distributor Aventec have announced that two London foundation trusts have jointly selected OmniSupplier cabinet systems to improve their management of medical […]
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Northumbria awards Olympus pathology contract
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Olympus UK a seven-year managed service contract for core pathology. Olympus has been looking after the systems at Northumbria’s biochemistry lab for the past seven years and the trust says the “quality and accuracy” of its systems played a “significant role” in its decision to offer the company […]
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Dudley uses Soarian to identify infections
Nurses at Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust are using the workflow engine embedded in Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system to rapidly identify and isolate patients with infections such as MRSA. Soarian interfaces with existing patient administration and departmental support systems. The workflow engine allows administrative and clinical processes to be synchronised across departments, […]
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Testing, testing
Informing Healthcare has opened new research laboratories in Swansea. Lyn Whitfield paid them a visit.
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CRS problems cost Barts and the London £3m
Barts and the London NHS Trust projects a £3m shortfall in income this year due to serious data, reporting and technical problems with its new Cerner Millennium Care Records System. The new CRS system, installed by BT in April, has left the London trust unable to accurately report on inpatient and activity. As a result […]
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Bucks had CRS infection control issues for 18 months
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust was forced to develop workarounds for isolating MRSA patients after Cerner’s Millennium care records system was unable to cope with its superbug monitoring system for 18 months. In minutes obtained by E-Health Insider under the Freedom of Information Act, the trust’s National Programme for IT in the NHS programme board says […]
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Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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Barking goes-live with EuroKing maternity system
Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust has gone live with EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system, E3, to help achieve better data collection, reporting and audit. The system has been implemented across Queen’s Hospital and King George Hospital, which between them deliver 10,000 high and low risk births annually. The trust is using the […]
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EHI’s news roundup 20.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 20 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news StreamOn.net launches video e-learning for healthcare Belfast company, StreamOn.net, has launched a video based e-learning site for healthcare professionals, in partnership with leading UK professional bodies The website aims to […]
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Airedale hospital to pilot RFID from Siemens
Airedale NHS Trust will be piloting new Radio Frequency Identification technology from Siemens Healthcare to track 100 intravenous pumps across the trust, over 30 days. The pilot will be the first time both Siemens and Airedale have used RFID technology to track assets across various buildings on the hospital site, via the hospital’s new wireless […]
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