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7 March 2013

NHS Direct cuts hit admin staff

NHS Direct is slashing its back-office costs in half and expects to make more than 300 whole time equivalent staff
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6 March 2013

Southend-on-System C

The board of Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust took some convincing to invest in a new patient administration system
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6 March 2013

Cerner and McKesson join US alliance

Six heavyweight electronic medical records vendors have announced plans to develop common interoperability standards to create a new national set
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6 March 2013

From the frontline

There’s any amount of guidance on using social media in healthcare, yet most trusts remain downright suspicious. Andrew Carr, an
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6 March 2013

Govt EPR targets ‘a good thing’

The government’s ambitious targets for electronic records in NHS trusts are achievable and will deliver safer patient care, Cerner’s UK
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6 March 2013

Central funding decision due by April

Six southern acute procurement groups hope to hear by April whether their IT investment plans will be backed-up by central
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5 March 2013

US hospitals making progress on EMRs

US hospital IT leaders report strong progress towards electronic medical records, with two thirds saying they have achieved the first
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5 March 2013

Power to the people

Paul Hodgkin argues that complaints are escaping their institutional cages, and providers need a new and better response as they
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5 March 2013

Enter the CCG

Dr John Lockley has some ideas for improving the use of Choose and Book – or Booze and Chuck as
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5 March 2013

Three suppliers win London EPR tender

Cerner, InterSystems and Epic have been shortlisted for a patient administration system and electronic patient record framework contract covering nine
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