Hospital makes NHS history with IT coup (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Hospital makes NHS history with IT coup

5:20pm Wednesday 5th November 2008 in

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THE University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has made history by becoming the first trust in England to use a state-of-the-art new patient record system.

The trust - which runs Westmorland General Hospital in Kendal, Barrow’s Furness General Hospital and the Royal Lancaster Infirmary – is piloting the new Lorenzo machine, a revolutionary piece of software that is set to revolutionise patient care.

Doctors on Ward 5 at FGH are rigorously testing the system before it is extended to WGH and the RLI. With Lorenzo every patient’s details are accurately logged and readily available to hospital staff and local GPs, so access to their records is instant.

Chief executive of the UHMBT, Tony Halsall, said the team was “delighted to be at the forefront of this ground-breaking initiative”.