patient record system
Fujitsu ditches £896m NHS IT contract
News The Cerner Millennium care record system deployed by Fujitsu recently went down twice in one month, leaving NHS staff in the south of England without access to patient details. Fujitsu had been installing Cerner Millennium electronic care record... [29 May 2008]
Europe's first cardiac call centre opens
News Patients record their own heartbeat at home with rhythm units and then play the pulse over the telephone to technicians at the centre, where the audio signal is turned back into an ECG trace. Darren Taylor, Clinical Services Manager at Lifesign... [03 Jul 1998]
£2.3bn NHS IT overhaul gains momentum
News Invitations to negotiate for a new Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) will be issued soon after 22 regional and eight national service providers passed the pre-qualification stage of the procurement process. [28 May 2003]
Local government tech contract bonanza
News In other public sector contract news, Falkirk Council has awarded Graham Technology a contract to provide it with a CRM package, allowing the council to build up a record of how it deals with enquiries from the public. [29 Mar 2007]
Tony Blair's speech... (part three)
News This not only replaces the cumbersome and inefficient paper based approach, but will make it possible for an ambulance crew arriving at the scene of an accident to check a patients electronic health record through a handheld mobile device. [19 Nov 2001]
Granger rounds on critics of £6.2bn NHS IT programme
News He revealed that £500m of software build activity "from Chennai to Seattle" from a variety of suppliers is scheduled for this year along with the migration to the new NHS network and the first phase of the national care record system. [11 May 2004]
Richard Granger's NHS IT legacy
News The company's Lorenzo clinical record software is a core part of the NHS IT programme but iSoft has been hit by protracted financial troubles that have only just led to it being rescued by a £140m takeover from Australian healthcare company IBA. [18 Jun 2007]
NHS puts brakes on electronic record system
News The NHS has pledged to halt the further roll out of its electronic patient record system while it takes stock of criticisms in a report. A report evaluating the trial rollout of the Summary Care Record (SCR) system highlighted concerns that the... [14 May 2008]
Pharma giant signs 'multi-million' broadband deal
News He said: "In order to implement the Electronic Prescription Service, pharmacists require a compliant Patient Medical Record system, provided by Cegedim, and an N3 connection approved by [NHS] Connecting for Health. [07 Mar 2006]
Telemedicine slashes hospitals stays
Case Study These results are sent via a phone line to a secure server where they are saved as an electronic patient record, which can then be accessed by doctors or nurses. Using the system to manage chronic respiratory diseases such as Chronic Obstructive... [11 Jan 2006]
Real-Time Electronic Health Record System Architecture
White Paper A real-time Electronic Health Record (EHR) system enables evolutionary implementation and use of the health information infrastructure across hospitals, geographic regions, states, and countries. It reduces the risk of mistakes and adverse events... [09 Mar 2006]
Indian IT giant targets UK government contracts
News The company became the first Indian firm to pick up an IT contract from the British government when it won a deal to design and build the National Health Service's electronic patient record programme earlier this month. [30 Nov 2001]
First winner in £2.3bn NHS IT to be unveiled
News Getting the first major project underway will be a huge relief for Granger following criticism of the pace and secrecy of the programme in recent weeks and the withdrawal of major US supplier Lockheed Martin from the bidding for the patient record... [07 Oct 2003]
The Brampton Factor: Why big government IT projects fail
Comment The project of centralising the entire record system seems to have been started on little more than a moment's thought by Tony Blair. His inspiration was something like "wouldn't it be good if we could bring up patient records at the press of a... [22 Jan 2008]
Therapists Record Care and Transmit Data to a Host Computer With Intermec Systems
White Paper With this system, mobile radio frequency computer terminals are used to deliver patient information to therapists on the go, update computerized patient charts with treatment information, notify therapists when a new patient is admitted for... [12 Jun 2004]
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