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NHS Warrington CCG and Warrington and Halton NHS Foundation Trust are working with HCS to develop a care coordination service to identify high-risk patients and reduce readmissions.
20 June 2013
The Patient Information Forum has published a report on the benefits of providing information to patients and carers.
With just a few days left to influence the NHS England guidance that will shape the latest bid to digitise the health service, The Big EPR Debate round table focused on money and practicalities. Lyn Whitfield reports.
19 June 2013
North Bristol NHS Trust’s big, new hospital needs a sophisticated, modern IT system to help run it. EHI reporter Rebecca Todd donned a hard hat to learn more about its paper-lite ambitions.
13 June 2013
A National Audit Office report reveals that 98% of NPfIT benefits are yet to be realised and a new comparison website is launched setting out the impact of deprivation on early mortality in England.
The £260m fund initially billed as a boost for e-prescribing will be linked to NHS England's guidance on electronic patient records to "catalyse" the adoption of IT in the NHS, EHI's Big EPR Debate round table was told.
19 June 2013
More than 100 GP practices are using an app to detect the early signs of dementia in older patients.
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust went live with its Allscripts electronic patient record last weekend, three months ahead of schedule. PCTI has taken its patient access demonstrator to recent trade shows and seen it featured in NHS England's AppZone. It is now working with GPs to develop the product, which is intended to enable GPs to share letters and other documents easily with patients, and to add leaflets and other supportive materials from Docman BackOffice. The idea is to reduce some of the administrative, legal and ethical barriers to giving patients access to their records in line with government targets.
17 April 2013
GPs are receiving clinical letters directly into their medical records from Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust via the Medical Interoperability Gateway. Medisec software’s clinical correspondence system has supported the delivery of electronically-signed hospital letters into GP practice software systems using Healthcare Gateway Limited’s MIG. The hospital will be extending a paperless service for all types of clinical correspondence.
17 April 2013