Content by Mike Fuller, Regional Director of Marketing, InterSystems Spurred on by the need to adapt to the pandemic, healthcare organisations have made great progress in recognising the need to be bold and innovative to overcome a variety of business, operational, and technological hurdles. Now, however, as resources post-pandemic are […]
Tag: EPR
Poll: How many EPR systems do you think there will be in the market in 5 years?
As part of our Health Tech Trends Series sponsored by InterSystems, we asked the HTN audience: How many EPR systems do you think there will be in the market in 5 years? We received 148 responses from our audience, with participants ranging from various professions. The accompanying options to choose […]
Industry views: digital leaders on EPR approaches, learnings and advice
As part of our latest HTN EPR event, we reached out to peers and industry experts to share their views on their own electronic patient record implementation journeys, key learnings and advice, as well as adding value to an EPR. Here’s what they had to say… To begin, Craig York, chief […]
Deep dive: electronic patient records in focus
In July, we covered the latest annual report on the Government Major Projects Portfolio from the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, which noted “major issues” with the frontline digitisation programme, including the insight that it “appears to be unachievable” for every NHS trust to reach a core level of digitisation and […]
EPR specialists Nautilus Consulting acquired by Accenture to support digital transformation delivery
Global professional services company Accenture announced that it has acquired UK-based digital healthcare consultancy Nautilus Consulting, in a move hoped to “enhance Accenture’s digital transformation, implementation, and optimisation capabilities across the U.K. and global healthcare space”. EPR specialists Nautilus Consulting will join Accenture’s health strategy and consulting team, helping to […]
Royal Cornwall Hospitals set to launch electronic patient record system
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust has announced the development of its electronic patient record (EPR) programme, with Oracle Health, set to eventually replace “many of their current digital and paper-based systems” with a single platform for patient information. The trust is currently at the design, development and testing phase of […]
News in brief: neonatal EPR launch in Calderdale, new funding for tech-enabled care qualification in Scotland, patient support websites in London, and more
It’s time for another news in brief round-up – let’s take a look at some of the stories that caught our eye recently. New EPR launches for neonatal patients at Calderdale and Huddersfield The neonatal unit at Calderdale Royal Hospital has recently gone live with electronic patient record, BadgerNet, which […]
Wales to begin testing electronic prescription service in primary care
Live testing of a new electronic prescription service (EPS) is about to begin in Wales, which will see prescriptions sent electronically from a GP practice to a patient’s pharmacy of choice, negating the need for paper forms. The transition from paper-based processes to a digital service is being described as […]
Microsoft collaborates with Epic to deliver “highly scalable public cloud” Azure Large Instances
Microsoft has announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Epic through the delivery of a Microsoft Azure Large Instances, a “highly scalable public cloud” that is “designed to achieve the scale needed to run a large Epic electronic health record database – up to 50 million database accesses per […]
Bon Secours Health Systems invests €25 million for electronic healthcare record system
Bon Secours Health System (BSHS) has partnered with MEDITECH on the launch of a clinical transformation project, Bons Connect, which will see the system’s entire hospital network connected using one electronic healthcare record. Described as “the largest private hospital EPR system in Ireland”, BonsConnect will form part of Bon Secours’ wider €300 […]
