E-Prescribing

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21 June 2006

City Hospitals Sunderland rolls out e-prescribing

City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust has rolled out electronic prescribing throughout inpatient areas of the trust. The project required the
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24 March 2006

NHS IT spending lags behind Wanless targets

Forecasts from trade association, Intellect, suggest that NHS spending on IT in England is likely to undershoot significantly the figure
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22 February 2006

St Mary’s goes live with JAC pharmacy management

St Mary’s NHS Trust has become the second trust in London to go live with a new pharmacy management system
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7 February 2006

Health IT pioneer, Frank Burns, to retire

Frank Burns, chief executive of Wirral Hospital NHS Trust in Merseyside and a pioneer of healthcare IT in the UK,
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8 December 2005

Great Ormond Street implements electronic prescribing

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has begun implementation of JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System. The
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1 November 2005

Community nurses to start e-prescribing pilot in 2006

Community nurses are to take part in NHS Connecting for Health pilots of electronic nurse prescribing early next year. Barbara
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30 March 2005

Study shows doctors use PDAs more for admin than care

Doctors in the US are not generally making use of PDAs to improve patient care, and those that do use
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17 March 2005

Europe making progress to eHospitals

A major new survey of IT use in almost 900 European hospitals, including 73 in the UK, has found that
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10 February 2005

John Radcliffe develops e-prescribing for blood

John Radcliffe Hospital, part of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, is developing a new electronic prescribing system for blood
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9 December 2004

Flexibility key, says Forrest

In an exclusive interview, Martyn Forrest, Regional Implementation Director for the North East of England sets out the challenges of
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