Results include elimination of prescription errors, compliance with reporting requirements and increased research production. About Papworth Hospital Papworth Hospital is one of the largest specialist cardiothoracic (heart and lung) hospitals in Europe and includes the country’s main heart and lung transplant centre. Over the last three years, it has […]
Secondary Care
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust live with McKesson
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is now live with McKesson Cardiology™; a solution that provides an image archiving system to facilitate the sharing and review of cath and echo images, ECGs and Echo procedure reporting to enhance workflow efficiency. The McKesson cardiovascular information system CVIS replaced the Trust’s previous […]
Civica strengthens Anchor partnership with workforce management contract
Anchor has chosen Coldharbour Time and Attendance software from Civica, a market leader in business critical software applications, digital solutions and outsourcing, to provide a workforce management solution for its 120 care homes. The new solution offers touch screen capabilities using fingerprint recognition, to enable verification of staff attendance, ensuring […]
Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is implementing Questback to enhance staff engagement
Questback has announced that the Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is implementing its NHS Staff Community. The Trust will use Questback to provide a single platform for communicating with its 4,000 staff across Somerset, Dorset and the Isle of Wight, listening to and acting on their feedback and consequently enhancing […]
Medway NHS Foundation Trust work with Ideagen to improve patient experience and safety across Kent health economy
Medway NHS Foundation Trust is working with software firm Ideagen to introduce an electronic order communications system. The Trust will adopt Ideagen OCM, Ideagen’s order communications system, in a six-figure project. Focusing initially on pathology and radiology investigations, Ideagen OCM will be launched across the whole health economy, including external […]
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals secures funding for retinal imaging machine
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has secured funding to purchase a retinal imaging machine to help premature babies. Consultant Ophthalmologist, Shveta Bansal secured £47,750 funding for the equipment from the charity Baby Beat. The Baby Beat Appeal was set up in 1987 and aims to maintain and raise standards […]
CCube signs agreement for CSC to provide document management software
CCube Solutions has signed a UK framework agreement with CSC which allows CSC to provide CCube’s document management software (EDMS) to NHS Trusts. For those hospitals who require it, CCube’s EDMS provides a proven way to manage their legacy medical records, once scanned. Combined with CSC’s next generation Lorenzo electronic […]
NHS Digital selects Redcentric
Leading UK IT managed services provider Redcentric has announced one of its most significant public sector wins to date, with the award of the new Peering Exchange contract which forms the core of the new Health and Social Care Network (HSCN). NHS Digital has selected Redcentric on an initial three-year […]
West Mid Hospital pilots new innovative technology
West Middlesex University Hospital is one of few in the country to be first to trial a new technology on their general wards that could potentially save future lives. This technology is a wireless monitoring system of patient’s vital signs providing medical professionals with real time information about patient’s heart […]
Northern NHS trusts share digital lessons for successful launch of major hospital system
Hospital patients in north Cumbria will be referred more quickly and efficiently to the right treatment and care following a technology partnership that has learnt vital lessons from a neighbouring NHS trust. North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has successfully gone live with a new patient administration system which will […]