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Helen Waters is enthusiastic about a next generation EPR system.
The web-based version is already live at four sites in the US.
One of Meditech’s first UK deployments, at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, ran into difficulties in 2012.
Healthcare in UK reflects global trends towards providing more care in the community and better integration between health and care systems.
Seeing interest in e-prescribing care pathways and better clinical decision support.
Important to have a health registry to search the database for patients with certain conditions.
Jeremy Hunt, health secretary, set the initial challenge for the NHS to become ‘paperless’ back in 2013
