Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS FT has published a final report following a series of reviews into an IT critical incident on 19 July when two separate data centres suffered failures. The review collates a series of investigations, covering the trust’s methodology, timeline of events, main findings and recommendations for […]
Tag: EPR
Royal Marsden counts down to EHR launch
The Royal Marsden NHS FT has started to count down to the launch of Connect, its new electronic health record. Described as “the largest and most important digital transformation programme in The Royal Marsden’s history”, Epic will be introduced across the trust in March 2023. This month has seen the […]
TPP wins electronic health record contract in Jamaica
TPP has been awarded a contract worth over $5 million to implement its electronic health record system in Jamaica. Speaking in the House of Representatives in Jamaica on Tuesday (November 22), Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton announced the plans. In 2019 the Jamaican Ministry of Health and […]
Featured interview: Paul Volkaerts, CEO of Nervecentre, on the requirements and challenges of EPR markets
For our November focus on electronic patient record systems, we spoke to Paul Volkaerts, CEO of Nervecentre, to find out more about his thoughts on the EPR market, some of the key challenges, Nervecentre’s software in practice, and more. On the requirements of the EPR market EPR requirements have changed […]
HTN Now: System-wide access to records
Joining us for HTN Now in late October, Vijay Magon, Managing Director at CCube Solutions, led a discussion on electronic document and records management (EDRM) for patient records. Vijay began by supplying some content about CCube Solutions; they have been in business for over 20 years, with 98 percent of […]
HTN Now: Apira on a challenge to the managed convergence agenda in Mental Health
For HTN Now: Digital Social Care and Mental Health, we were joined by a team from Apira consisting of Alan Brown, Director of Professional Services; Iain Borland, Managing Consultant and Head of Deployment; and Director Geoff Broome. The talk focused on challenges to the managed convergence agenda in mental health. […]
Ambulance services electronic patient record framework opens
An invitation to tender has been launched to develop a national framework for the provision and support of an electronic patient record system for ambulance trusts. The East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub, in partnership with the National Ambulance Procurement Board, is inviting suppliers to bid for the framework agreement, with […]
Study explores prevalence and sources of duplicate content in electronic medical records
A new study, published at JAMA Network Open and entitled ‘Prevalence and Sources of Duplicate Information in the Electronic Medical Record’, aims to set out how much duplicate content is present in electronic medical records (EMR), where the duplication comes from, and why it exists. Authors Jackson Steinkamp, Jacob J. […]
County Durham and Darlington prepares for EPR go-live
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is to go-live with its new electronic patient record system this weekend. Ahead of going live the trust has shared a series of videos from the trust’s medical director and associate director, sharing what the system will mean for patients and introducing what […]
Manchester University NHS EPR goes live
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust is now live with its new electronic patient record (EPR) system from Epic. In the early hours of Thursday morning, the system went live, with the news also shared on Twitter: We’re buzzing that #HiveisLive! 🙌🎉Our Trust-wide Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system is now live […]
