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You say you want a revolution…

In Merseyside, health organisations are smashing faxes, finding cheap ways to go digital, and playing with tomorrow’s technology. Ben Heather
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Virtual reality healthcare, coming to Liverpool

Virtual reality will be tested as a care tool in Liverpool this year, both for treating patients and helping clinicians
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Liverpool self-care programme cuts emergency admissions

A study of a large scale, supported self-care programme in Liverpool has found clear reductions in emergency admissions and secondary
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Alder Hey hospital upgrades IT system

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new version of the Meditech electronic patient record.
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The little red (e)book

The ‘red book’ that records a child’s early health progress is one of the best known personal health records; and
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Liverpool trusts in £70m EPR tender

Three Liverpool trusts are jointly procuring a new, integrated electronic patient record system, worth up to £70m, to help them
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Royal College backs eRedbook

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has endorsed the digital version of the ‘red book’ that is given
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Cancer – the big IT

The Clatterbrige Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is making a big investment in IT as it prepares to open a
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Health CIO profile: Kate Warriner

The deputy director of Informatics Merseyside was studying music when she was bitten by the health bug. Lis Evenstad talked
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Liverpool gets Emis access on tablets

Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust has deployed 1,500 tablets to give its staff access to Emis Web in the community.
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