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Nottingham reduces clinical incidents

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has reduced night-time clinical incidents by 70% since implementing a new IT system to support
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Epic contract under review

Cambridge University Hospitals and Papworth Hospital NHS foundation trusts’ joint electronic patient record contract with Epic is under review, while
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Dr Watson goes back to school

Medical students in Cleveland will use IBM’s Watson to analyse challenging medical cases as the company looks to advance the
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Innovation to be “core business” of NHS

How to make innovation “core business for the NHS” was discussed at a Westminster Health Forum this week.
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When Derby met Harris

Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has built a bespoke portal with Harris Healthcare that it hopes will make the hospital
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Show and tell

With national contracts for digital imaging systems due to terminate shortly, vendors were out in force at EHI Live 2012
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The patient part

Get clinicians involved in IT projects if you want them to succeed; but don’t forget about patients, the first CCIO
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UK GPs top for use of EMRs

More than two thirds of UK GPs use electronic medical records and can also order tests or prescriptions online, manage
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New approach for NHSmail2

The government is looking at using multiple suppliers to provide NHSmail2, using the G-Cloud procurement framework.
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Lamb ‘banging the drum’ for telehealth

Care minister Norman Lamb will be “banging the drum” for telehealth and telecare, trying to convince everyone in his path,
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