PICS

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The team behind UHB's PICS tool
19 November 2019

University Hospitals Birmingham eliminates prescription errors with in-house tool

An electronic prescription tool developed by staff has reduced the number of errors when prescribing a drug for paracetamol overdoses
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Birmingham Children's Hospital has implemented PICS for paediatric eprescribing
11 May 2017

Birmingham Children’s goes live with paediatric e-prescribing

Birmingham Children's has gone live with PICS e-prescribing, the clinical software created by local University Hospitals Birmingham trust.
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3 November 2016

Site visit: Birmingham goes paperless in ICU

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is well known for its PICS system, and now it is rolling out paperless
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2 April 2015

PICS of the crop

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust’s prescribing information and communication system helped it to win EHI’s latest award for ‘promoting
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16 May 2014

Health CIO profile: Daniel Ray

The director of informatics at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has the affinity for a data set that a
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Birmingham spends £7m on paediatric EPR
24 February 2014

Birmingham spends £7m on paediatric EPR

Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will use £3.3m from the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards: Technology Fund’ to create a
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11 November 2013

Birmingham to offer PICS licence-free

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust will offer its Prescribing Information and Communication System to the NHS on a licence-free
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24 March 2011

Birmingham patients get records access

Patients at the University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust are being given access to their own online medical records.
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4 November 2010

Birmingham reduces med errors with PICS

University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has said that an electronic prescribing system it developed could be preventing up
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10 June 2010

IT ready for UK’s biggest hospital move

The University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is implementing a live bed management system to help staff transfer patients
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