Maternity services at Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals are set for an exciting change with the launch of a new electronic medical record system known as BadgerNet. This will replace the traditional folder of handheld notes used by pregnant women and mean everything is securely stored electronically and available at the […]
Secondary Care
West of Scotland creates regional portal
Scottish health boards covering a population of 2.2 million people are able to share patient information now that a two-year project to create a regional portal has been completed. Five West of Scotland health boards are covered by the project to link their Orion Health portals, with NHS Dumfries and […]
University Hospital Southampton introduces electronic whiteboards to improve patient safety
Staff at Southampton’s teaching hospitals are introducing interactive whiteboards on wards as part of a major digital transformation project. The touchscreen technology displays information taken directly from a patient’s electronic record, including clinical alerts such as existing medical conditions, length of admission and predicted discharge date. It also acts as […]
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust links vital signs monitors with EPR
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust reports saving some 5,800 hours of nursing time since the introduction of vital signs monitoring devices from Welch Allyn, a subsidiary of global medical technology company Hill-Rom (NYSE: HRC). Nursing staff are using the Welch Allyn® Connex® monitoring devices across hundreds of beds to capture […]
Kodak Alaris wins tender to support UHB
Kodak Alaris Information Management and Insight have successfully tendered to provide University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), one of 16 Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) acute trusts, with a fast and efficient scanning solution embedded within the Trust’s existing line of business application. Kodak Alaris evaluated the Trust’s existing processes […]
New voice banking software helps patients hold on to their speech
New technology which helps people with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) to continue to communicate by creating their own synthetic voice is being offered at Great Western Hospital. MND is a rare, progressive condition which can affect the muscles of the mouth, throat and tongue, leading to problems with speech and […]
NHS Wales embraces early payment innovation
NHS Wales is embarking on an innovative early payment programme for its suppliers, which will create an additional income stream for the Health Boards and Trusts across Wales to reinvest in essential services and help it achieve greater efficiencies through a more effective purchasing process. The organisations, which provide care […]
Cambio signs national contract with NHS Scotland
Cambio Healthcare Systems has won a Pan European tender to supply a Decision Support (DS) System for NHS Scotland through a national contract with NHS National Services Scotland. The long-term aim is to deploy Cambio’s solution as the national decision support platform which works with clinical and care systems to […]
Interview: Digital Jersey’s CEO, Tony Moretta
How is Digital Changing Today’s Leaders? Technology is changing the business landscape and how we behave as leaders. All information is being digitised – not just documents in office, but our social interaction, our whereabouts, our health information through wearables; with the Internet of Things even physical products are now […]
Somerset pilot leads to countywide roll-out of ‘lifesaving’ software
Clinicians across Somerset have access to ’lifesaving’ software following successful pilots in Taunton’s Musgrove Park Hospital, Yeovil District Hospital and Somerset Partnership Mental Health Units and Community Hospitals. The EMIS Web Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Viewer enables authorised healthcare professionals to view GP medical records for the patients they treat, […]
