The Professional Records Standards Body has published a new standard to outline the core information to be shared in a person’s care record. Following a consultation process with over 1,500 professionals and organisations the new standard determines the vital information about a person that should be shared between health and care […]
Tag: Interoperability
South West London Pathology picks lab information system
The South West London Pathology network has chosen CliniSys for a new laboratory information management system. The network was set-up by St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Croydon Health Services NHS Trust and Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to support more than two million people in London. The aim of […]
Case Study: Joining the dots to improve care – Inside North Tees’ adoption of EPMA
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, which employs over 5,600 staff and has a 570-bed capacity, was the first English NHS Trust to deploy the InterSystems’ TrakCare electronic patient record, in 2015. Since then, the Trust has been using TrakCare to help it achieve its digital health ambitions. Having […]
Birmingham launches single maternity record
A single maternity record system has been launched in Birmingham and Solihull to benefit more than 18,000 women across the region. The single maternity record will enable clinical information to be shared between the four hospitals run by Birmingham Women’s and Children’s Foundation Trust (BWC) and University Hospitals Birmingham NHS […]
InterSystems extends mobile capabilities
A new release of InterSystems TrakCare has been released providing mobile-enabled interfaces to all clinical workflows. The new release is an extension to the capabilities of the unified healthcare information system from InterSystems to improve the user interface and experience at the point of care. The mobile functionality includes support […]
National Events Management Service goes live
The National Events Management Service is now live allowing for patient centric event messages to be published from one system and distributed to a number of other subscriber systems. The service means vital child health information will now be available to health professionals and parents at the point of care. The […]
HTN Industry View: NHSX to mandate health tech standards
Last week HTN reported on NHSX confirming their intent to mandate the use of internationally-recognised tech and data standards across the NHS to ensure a consistent language of clinical terms to help staff share information, as reported by HTN here. Following our news article, we asked the industry for their views […]
Mike Green, CCIO: Why sharing health and care information is not enough
Creating a digital version of the old paper system only gets health and care so far; we need to look at workflow beyond any one hospital or organisation, writes Mike Green, chief clinical information officer at South Devon and Torbay NHS Foundation Trust. Sharing information We have made some really […]
