UCLPartners and Newham Clinical Commissioning Group are working together to equip primary care staff in the borough with valuable skills in improvement science to support 300,000 patients across 53 GP practices. Using the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s model staff at the practice investigated barriers to patient access and reviewed the […]
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Silverlink wins new CaptureFertility contract in Aberdeen
Silverlink Software has been successfully awarded a new contract to rollout their next generation fertility solution, CaptureFertility, to the Aberdeen Fertility Centre. The Aberdeen Fertility Centre was founded in 1985 to initially provide donor insemination treatment within the North East of Scotland. The Centre has since grown substantially to provide a […]
Project unveils 25 years of lifestyle changes
A new tool shows how people in England’s smoking, drinking and healthy eating habits have changed over the past 25 years, in a new, easy to understand, format. Statistics on how many of us are overweight, obese or still lighting up cigarettes can now be compared from the early 1990s […]
Patients Know Best awarded national framework
Patients Know Best is a fully secure system which enables patients themselves to organise and share their own personal records with others. For example they can share information not only with clinicians anywhere in the world, but other organisations like social services, or even members of their family. The choice […]
Avon Breast Screening renew with Insignia
Insignia Medical Systems has confirmed a new contract with Avon Breast Screening (ABS). ABS, one of the biggest breast departments in the country, first signed with Insignia in 2010, and have confirmed a further 5 year managed service contract with PACS provider Insignia. The Avon Breast Screening programme invites more […]
Ramsay Health Care goes digital with Carestream
Ramsay Health Care UK has installed a Carestream DRX Evolution Plus General X-ray room. Carestream was awarded the tender to supply Ramsay with digital radiology equipment in late summer 2016. Springfield is just one of several sites that the company is upgrading to use DR over the next few years. This […]
IMS MAXIMS cloud-based services on G Cloud 9 Framework
IMS MAXIMS has announce dthe availability of its cloud services on the latest iteration of the UK Government’s G Cloud Framework. NHS organisations looking for a cost-effective and efficient way to purchase cloud-based solutions that enable their paperless 2020 ambitions, can use G Cloud 9 to access a range of IMS […]
West Herts and Carestream Health sign new five-year contract
West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust (West Herts) and Carestream Health will replace the Trust’s existing PACS with a CARESTREAM Vue PACS and Vue VNA. The new five-year contract will be provided as a managed service, including software, services, workstation and server hardware. Lisa Emery, Chief Information Officer for West Hertfordshire […]
InterSystems TrakCare wins 56 hospitals in 2016
According to a research report published last month by the internationally recognised research organisation KLAS, InterSystems TrakCare® has ‘pulled ahead’ of its competitors as a preferred solution, winning significantly more new hospitals globally (non US) than any other supplier in 2016, the report found. The report examines new hospital EMR […]
PRSB introduces revised standard to improve discharge letters
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a revised Electronic Discharge Summary Standard, to help facilitate better care for patients after hospital discharge. Key among the changes are revisions to the information that should be entered on a patient’s care record regarding the medications used during their treatment and […]
