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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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Scarborough’s RealTime discharge

Scarborough and North Yorkshire NHS Care Trust has become the first in the UK to go-live with a discharge plan
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Moving on up

Sarah Bruce visits Birmingham to see how Britain’s newest and biggest hospital is planning to use IT.
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Data published as Whitehall is reviewed

The Department of Health has confirmed that BT’s new local service provider deal for London is one of the contracts
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Birmingham PICS CSE as partner

Birmingham Systems PICS (Prescribing Information and Communications System), developed by staff at the city’s University Hospitals, is now available to
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Expert view: Kathy McLean

How the NHS innovation agenda is being taken forward in the East Midlands
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DH launches hospital comparison site

The Department of Health has launched a new comparison element to the NHS Choices website, which allows patients to compare
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Anderson: ‘prepare for more viruses’

A well-known IT security expert has told E-health Insider that hospitals need to accept that viruses exist and has urged
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Dr Foster takes on NHS Choices

Health information provider Dr Foster has launched an alternative site to NHS Choices. The company, which lost out in the
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Dudley uses Soarian to identify infections

Nurses at Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust are using the workflow engine embedded in Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record
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