Systems integration
Trafford hospitals integrate
IT systems with Ensemble. 21 July 2010
Cumbria pilots remote access to
patient GP records for community care teams. 20 July 2010
NHS Wales improves framework
for software testing. 27 May 2010
Northumbria Healthcare integrates clinical systems
to deliver improved patient records. 26 May 2010
Avaya ACE integrates
intelligent communications into healthcare applications. 12 May
2010
NHS Scotland chooses InterSystems
Ensemble for healthcare integration platform. 26 April 2010
First health and social care
link using CfH systems integration standards. 9 April 2010
Enhancing the
patient experience through IPTV
IPTV uses a hospital's existing computer network to supply high
quality digital TV channels and video services not just to the
bedside but to any part of the organisation, including patient areas
and staff. The system can supply a range of additional services such
as phone, Internet, patient information, and staff training. It is
also, says Colin Farquhar of Exterity, the ideal solution to the
problem of the national digital TV switchover. December 2009
States of Guernsey start roll-out
of integrated health and social care systems. 20 Nov
Great Western Hospitals integrates
nine applications in three months. 4 Nov 2009
Lack of data standardisation makes US
healthcare supply chain inefficient and expensive. 3 Nov
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals
improve information governance with identity management system.
3 Sept 2009
King’s College Hospital to
improve patient management with interactive display system. Sept
2009
Case study: CSA Waverley helps Exeter System achieve over
2000 migrations with 100% record
NHS IT at primary care level is underpinned by the National Health
Application and Infrastructure Services (NHAIS), commonly known as
the Exeter System. It covers many services and delivers a vast array
of data-heavy work across 89 primary care trusts with 42,000 GPs,
delivering 2 billion transactions per year. CSA Waverley is
considered to be a trusted driving force behind provision of
hardware and system migration supporting NHAIS. August 2009.
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Visual display of patient flow
enables Walsall Hospital to manage patients more efficiently.
June 2009
European Parliament backs cross-border health rights.
20 May 2009
GHX healthcare ecommerce
exchange growing in Europe. 20 May 2009
Welch Allyn workstation
integrated with EMIS clinical system. 20 May 2009
Children’s services systems: a move from complexity to
simplicity
Systems rationalisation across children’s services is an area
that requires much focus. Total transformation is required from a
complex, lengthy and inefficient process to a more simplified and
efficient one. Robert Fitzgerald, children’s
services project manager at OLM Group, raises the issue of a move
towards total systems rationalisation. 27 April 2009
Taking patient care in the community to the next level
David Astley, Head of Health and
Emergency Services at ntl:Telewest Business, discusses progress made
in healthcare technology and how, as further advances are made,
healthcare will extend beyond the boundaries of GP’s surgeries and
hospitals and move directly into patients’ homes. 27 April 2009
Princess of Wales Hospital pharmacy
wins award for electronic patient discharge system. 21 April
EHSSB brings electronic and paper documents under control with
centralised management system
For Northern Ireland's Eastern Health and Social Services Board,
compliance with various pieces of legislation, the merger of four
boards, and the increasing use of email had made it imperative to
improve their management of documents and records. The solution was
a centralised electronic document and records management system.
March 2009
Do new applications always have to go wrong?
Rigorous testing of new IT systems is essential at all stages of
development to ensure successful operation, says Chris
Limberger of Macro 4. Pressure to meet deadlines and a
tick-box culture can result in rolled-out systems not being suitable
for use.
Getting users involved and highlighting glitches early on, and
testing in realistic situations can greatly reduce the chance of
failure, he says.
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First steps towards fully integrated working in the London
Borough of Newham
Multi-agency information sharing and data matching issues have
recently raised serious concerns throughout the public sector.
Acknowledging the importance of integrated working in improving
outcomes for children and young people, the London Borough of Newham
sought a solution to address the inefficiencies of pre-existing
disparate systems. March 2008.
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Making Choose and Book work for secondary care
Professor Angus Wallace, chair of the National Specialty
Reference Group (NSRG), outlines the work he and his team in NSRG
have conducted to improve a crucial element of Choose and Book and
what it holds in store for consultants.
Understanding the organisation
through process and information modelling
Donna Burbank of Embarcadero Technologies explains how
understanding the critical interrelationships between data,
process and organisation can be facilitated by the use of
graphical models. read more ...
Salford City Council equipment services.
 Salford
integrated community equipment service (ICES) and Salford Wheelchair
Service were using separate service management IT systems and
required a shared system to support full integration. The integrated
system dramatically cut waiting
times for wheelchairs.
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New integration platform for Plymouth trust
Plymouth ICT Shared Services has replaced its current integration
platform with new rapid integration software, Ensemble from. This will enable the Plymouth healthcare community to integrate its legacy clinical applications with the data-centre-hosted suite of applications provided by Connecting for Health.
July 2007
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Simon
Mehlman |
A lateral approach to systems integration
Ascribe’s Simon
Mehlman and Gary
Mooney propose an
alternative to NHS
Connecting for Health’s
approach to systems
integration.
For the vision of electronic
healthcare records (EHRs) to
become a reality, there needs to be
a means by which automated
interactions between the computer
systems in different healthcare
provider settings can be carried out.
April 2007. Read article...
Linking the islands
Cisco UK’s Terry Espiner offers his opinion on the
potential of unified communications.
Many businesses have realised that by migrating to a single,
converged network supporting IP telephony, videoconferencing,
video-on-demand and contact centres, productivity gains that would
have seemed unimaginable a few years ago can be achieved. The adoption of this
private-sector unified
communications model by the NHS will enable
healthcare trusts to ensure that
voice, video and data
communications are integrated
into a unified service, rather than
functioning in isolation. April 2007. Read
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Integrated medicines
management system
for Winchester
hospital
Winchester and Eastleigh
Healthcare NHS Trust has
recently become the first UK trust to
install a second-generation electronic
prescribing and medication
administration system (EPMA). April 2007.
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Coventry trust switches to automated reporting
The daily list of required patient records generated by the
hospital’s existing appointments system had to be converted to a
format that could be shared with logistics company TNT’s systems for
transporting the records. April 2007 Read
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