PICS of the crop
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s prescribing information and communication system helped it to win EHI’s latest award for ‘promoting patient safety’. Paul Curran reports.
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Humber debates Lorenzo future
Financial pressures could cause Humber NHS Foundation Trust to move to a ‘best of breed’ approach with its clinical IT systems when its national contract for CSC’s Lorenzo expires, according to the trust’s board of directors.
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Northern Devon picks RiO for community
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has chosen Servelec’s RiO electronic patient record system for community health services as part of an £8 million investment in a new EPR.
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Time heals all wounds; but IT can help
There are huge opportunities to improve the management of chronic wounds in the UK, according to an EHI Award winning company and one of its early adopter trusts. Paul Curran reports.
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Notts and Durham tap Nervecentre
Two trusts in the North and Midlands of England have signed deals with Nervecentre to roll out electronic observations software, using grants from NHS England’s technology fund.
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Calderdale, Bradford take Cerner EPR
Both Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have chosen Cerner Millennium as their new electronic patient record system.
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Chesterfield plans PAS ‘re-launch’
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is planning a “re-launch” of its System C Medway patient administration system after suffering a series of post-implementation problems that caused waiting list backlogs.
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An open path to success
The Free Diagnostic Pathology Software Project is an EHI Award winning open source product that aims to improve cancer diagnosis. Jennifer Trueland talks to its developer, Fred Mayall.
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Homing in on child protection
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust was one of the first to go live with a new Child Protection Information Sharing System. Sam Sachdeva reports.
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Ade Memoire on closing the loop
Adrian Byrne, the director of IM&T at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, says test results need to be acknowledged – but making sure that they are is far from easy.
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