Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid delivered a speech (8 March 2022) at the Royal College of Physicians, London, setting our his vision for the NHS. The speech set out priorities for health reform, including underlying principles, as well as the role of digital, and themes including the right to choose, […]
Tag: EPR
Harris to acquire Allscripts’ hospital and large physician practice assets
Harris Computer Corporation has completed an agreement to acquire Allscripts’ electronic heath record business segment, which includes Allscripts’ Sunrise, Paragon, TouchWorks, Opal and dbMotion tools. In a £528 million ($700 million) deal, the purchase price consideration consists of a fixed price of £505 million ($670 million) to be paid at closing, […]
Two London trusts to share EPR
Epsom and St Helier Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, two trusts which are part of a recently formed hospital group, have announced plans to share their electronic patient record (EPR) system.The trusts have signed contracts with Cerner to provide a shared electronic patient […]
Video: EPR implementations – five critical paths and a cutover
Ideal Health helped us to get our first full-length HTN Now event of the year underway by presenting a live webcast on Electronic Patient Record (EPR) implementations. Hosted by Andi Taylor, EPR Implementation Programme Director and Consultant, the session – entitled ‘five critical paths and a cutover’ – covered a […]
News in brief: £55m EPR contract awarded, VR doctor teamworking, deep learning tools
The HTN team is welcoming in the New Year with what we love the most – the latest health tech news and events. There’s lots in-store across January, including a day we are dedicating to digital mental health topics at our first HTN Now Focus event of 2022. Later in […]
Oracle acquires Cerner for $28.3 billion
Oracle Corporation, an enterprise software giant, has announced the acquisition of Cerner through an all-cash offer for $95.00 per share, approximately $28.3 billion in equity value. The duo made the joint announcement today, with the transaction expected to close in 2022. In the press announcement, Oracle said the deal will […]
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership goes live with EPR
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with the mental health module of SystmOne. Last year the trust signed a five-year deal with TPP to deploy the electronic patient record across its mental health and disability services, including the provision of the partnership’s three GP practices. The […]
Milton Keynes University Hospital closely integrates EDRM with EPR
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has successfully integrated its electronic document management and records system (EDRM) from CCube Solutions, directly within its electronic patient record system, Cerner. The EDRM at the trust contains over 80 million scanned patient records, which are now available to view directly within the […]
EPR feature: moving from the system of record to the system of transformation
Feature by InterSystems Electronic Patient Records (EPRs) are one of our featured focus topics this month. This means we’re showcasing expert comment and articles from health tech professionals, in this subject area. First up, David Hancock, Healthcare Executive Advisor at InterSystems, shares with us his opinions of the main challenges […]
Nervecentre shares presentation on cloud and EPR software as a service
Nervecentre, an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) software supplier to the NHS, recently shared a presentation on the topic of its ‘EPR as a service’, sharing how trusts can use the company’s fully-integrated platform as a cloud SaaS [software as a service] model. Delivering the live webcast was a panel comprised […]
