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Keep up to date with the latest in healthcare industry news and trends.

21 Dec 2012

Waikato goes live with revamped path lab

Waikato Hospital in New Zealand has completed a $10 million revamp of its pathology laboratory, involving building a special containment lab for testing for infectious organisms and a new laboratory information management system (LIMS) that it says is the first of its kind in Australasia.

04 Dec 2012

CSC Healthcare Group wins the HINZ Clinicians’ Challenge

CSC’s Healthcare Group won first place at the recent HINZ 2012 Clinicians’ Challenge.

26 Nov 2012

Running a clinical obstacle course?

Do your clinicians feel like they are on an information obstacle course? Our clinical desktop solutions make it easier for doctors and nurses to care.

14 Nov 2012

Green tick for the PCEHR in acute care

Pulse IT journalist Kate McDonald explains how St. Vincent's is letting clinicians at the hospital know when a patient has a PCEHR.

06 Sep 2012

CSC’s James Rice Interviewed on “The Business”

The introduction of faster 4G communications in Australia is predicted to benefit businesses and consumers. Healthcare in particular, is set to take advantage of this technology evolution.

23 Aug 2012

E-prescribing proving effective in NZ hospitals

Dunedin Hospital is leading the way with the nationwide rollout of the e-prescribing system CSC MedChart, which is to be live in all New Zealand hospitals by 2014 as part of the Go For Gold strategy.

17 Aug 2012

New Zealand goes for gold in medication management

New Zealand has taken on the ambitious target of rolling out an electronic medications management (eMM) system in every hospital in the country by 2014.

24 Jul 2012

Waikato DHB go live with CSC Laboratory

On 14 July 2012 the Waikato DHB of New Zealand went live with CSC Laboratory (iSL). The new $4.3 million laboratory information system project is part of almost $10 million invested by the DHB in laboratory services over the past four years.

05 Jun 2012

CSC eHealth Solution Ultragenda at Tan Tock Seng Hospital

A major Singapore hospital chooses Ultragenda, CSC Enterprise Scheduling, to improve referrals, appointments and scheduling across hospital departments and medical clinics. A first for Singapore, Ultragenda includes clinician-defined order sets.

16 May 2012

Enterprise scheduling: transforming healthcare and meeting financial challenges

The NHS faces mounting financial pressures, yet the government is determined to see improvements in the quality of care, even as demand continues to rise.

23 Apr 2012

Automated queue management in a care setting

Read how Melton Health Super Clinic reduced waiting times, use of reception services and waiting room floor space with CSC's integrated queuing solution.

29 Mar 2012

MedChart momentum in the UK fuelled by evidence of eMM benefits

New research suggests that electronic medication management may be the only effective way to reduce medication error.

21 Feb 2012

e-prescribing slashes medication errors, study shows

Medication errors can be reduced by 66% with electronic prescribing technology, says new study by the University of NSW.

01 Dec 2011

Use of HIE data in a network of EDs saves $1.9 million

A network of EDs in the USA achieved significant cost savings resulting from the electronic exchange of health information. The results are encouraging as Australia works toward an HIE framework as part of the national eHealth program led by NEHTA.

10 Nov 2011

St. Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney - an electronic medication management pioneer

A paper published this week in the Medical Journal of Australia describes how implementation of the iSOFT MedChart system led to a 50% reduction in prescribing errors.

16 Aug 2011

Electronic medication chart improves medication safety

Since implementing iSOFT Medication Management (MedChart) in October 2010, the Dunedin Hospital has reduced medication error by more than 90%.

16 Aug 2011

Medication management: A diminishing role for pharmacy?

Electronic medication charts such at iSOFT Medication Management (MedChart) improve the ability of the hospital pharmacist to participate fully in patient care.

07 Jun 2011

Cabrini doctors more mobile with new iPad app

A new iPad app is enabling doctors at Cabrini Health in Melbourne instant access to patient results and critical information at their fingertips, anytime and anywhere, inside or outside the hospital, using a new application by eHealth engineer iSOFT.

02 Jun 2011

Macquarie University Hospital uses iSOFT Solutions

Utilising iSOFT clinical information systems, Macquarie University Hospital is the first fully digital private hospital in Australia. A patient’s entire medical record can be added to or accessed from any computer, anywhere in the hospital.

02 May 2011

Webinar: Electronic Medication Management

Within months of implementing the iSOFT Medication Management system (formerly known as MedChart), the hospital saw a significant reduction in medication error and an increase in staff efficiency.

13 Apr 2011

iSOFT Medication Management solution solves doctor scribble

In a recent Canberra Times article Dr John Ainge discusses the need to replace old hand written medication charts in an effort to eradicate errors in prescribing and administrating drugs to patients.

16 Mar 2011

iSOFT Patient Flow Executive Briefings

iSOFT will be hosting a number of executive briefings in March and April throughout Australia to discuss improving patient flow across the acute care hospital, all the way from out-patient clinics, the emergency department, admissions, billing and finance.

08 Mar 2011