Two deployments of new EPR functionality have been made at Medway Hospital, with Sunrise Order Comms integrated across all inpatient areas and emergency care documentation introduced within the trust’s paediatric Penguin Assessment Unit. The news was shared by the Medway NHS Foundation Trust’s EPR project manager, Kate Wimble, in a […]
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East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust awards contract for EPR implementation support
A two-year contract has been awarded to Dakota Integrated Solutions Ltd to support East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust with its Epic EPR implementation by supplying mobile devices, printers and barcode scanners as well as providing training, maintenance and support for data capture hardware and services. The initial […]
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust awards contract for EPR
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has selected its electronic patient record system, awarding a contract to Insight Direct, subcontracting services to Altera Digital Health. The contract is designed to run for an initial period of five years until March 2029, with an estimated value of £10,631,245.25. The contract award […]
Poll: Five years from now, how many GP clinical system suppliers do you think there will be?
Over on LinkedIn, we asked our audience how many GP clinical system (core electronic health record) suppliers they think there will be in five years’ time – below three, four to six, or more than seven? Out of 155 votes, the first option of ‘one to three’ received a clear […]
London independent hospital signs contract for web-based EPR
Private hospital, the New Victoria Hospital, London, has signed a contract with MEDITECH to provide its web-based electronic health record, Expanse. The company noted the EHR will be hosted on the Google Cloud Platform through MEDITECH UK, provided as a “subscription-based solution”. They added that this means “predictable costs by eliminating […]
Legacy information systems: approaches from across the NHS
As part of this week’s focus on legacy information systems, we’re exploring views from NHS professionals on their organisation’s approach. Mark Chester, assistant director of digital services at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, said: “All organisations face challenges with legacy systems and what happens to the […]
Feature: insights and best practice in navigating digital transformation
Content by Kodak Alaris In January, Graham Etherington, solutions sales director at Kodak Alaris participated in a panel discussion with Rob Birkett, CDIO at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT), and Dr Paul Wright, GP and deputy clinical director/IT clinical lead at NHS Greater Manchester and CCIO at Manchester […]
Feature: “Systems are changing all the time”, BridgeHead Software’s John McCann on tackling legacy systems
We sat down with BridgeHead Software’s vice president of global marketing, John McCann, for a chat on legacy systems – from the different kinds of legacy applications to the challenges they pose and BridgeHead’s solution for tackling those challenges. What are legacy applications and why are they a problem? John […]
NHSE board explores digital portfolio with focus on FDP, primary care, NHS App and more
NHS England’s board met 1 February 2024 with progress around current digital programmes as a topic of discussion; key takeaways include a need to focus public communication on the Federated Data Platform around existing case studies and benefits; a reported rise in AI decision support tools from five percent in […]
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust awards contract for patient portal
Following a call-off from a framework agreement, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust has awarded a contract worth an estimated £865,000 to ICNH Ltd (trading as DrDoctor) for a patient portal. The procurement notice describes how Lewisham and Greenwich sought a trust-wide patient portal for patients under acute and community care, […]
