Papworth Hospital has launched a new electronic patient record system (EPR) ahead of its move to the Cambridge Biomedical Campus next year.  The system went live on Monday 5 June. The project follows months of planning, and involved thousands of paper-based patient records being transferred to the electronic system. The system […]

A new cardiac scanning device that could save the NHS £200 million a year is being trialled at four of the UK’s largest emergency departments in Bristol, Nottingham, Leicester and Sheffield. The Vitalscan device, which has been developed by Creavo Medical Technologies and could revolutionise the way patients with chest pain […]

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has commissioned Hicom, a leading provider of clinical information software, to develop and improve the functionality of OpenEyes, the specialist Electronic Medical Record (EMR) application for ophthalmology. The investment will enable Moorfields to move towards a fully paperless system that will provide clinicians real-time […]

St Michael’s Hospital went live last week with an electronic patient management system in its Emergency Department (ED). The system MAXIMS effectively makes the Emergency Departmen paper-lite as the core clinical and administrative processes moved from being paper-based to electronic with no disruption to patient care. IMS MAXIMS has introduced […]

Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust has recently been  awarded £5m funding to spearhead the development of digital technology to improve mental health care. The Trust was named as a ‘Global Digital Exemplar’ in a recent announcement in recognition of its status as one of the most advanced […]

IMMJ’s Systems’ electronic document management system is now integrated with the Medway patient administration and electronic patient record system. The integration is part of a digitisation programme for Noble’s Hospital and the Island’s care services designed to increase efficiency and deliver enhanced patient care, itself a wider part of the […]

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 […]

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 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 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 […]