Leaders in Health and Care Software Solutions. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc en-gb Copyright 2011 Advanced Health & Care http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/images/advhc-logo.gif http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/ 80 15 News and Events. Tayside, Forth Valley and Borders NHS Boards have recently gone live with Adastra from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced). Adastra, which is a market-leading patient management system designed specifically for out-of-hours, urgent and unscheduled care, is now used across all 14 NHS Boards in Scotland. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/scottish-nhs.php Tue, 1 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 AMC, Advanced's new mobile communications brand - supplies corporate mobile devices and airtime, delivering savings in excess of 25 per cent per user on current corporate mobile packages. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/advanced-mobile-communications.php Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading supplier of IT systems for the care sector is showcasing its CareSys, StaffPlan and iConnect products on stand S62 at the Care Show (Bournemouth International Centre on 27 and 28 March 2012). These solutions can be provided on a hosted platform, including as a managed service and 'in the cloud' through sister company, Advanced 365. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/care-show-2012.php Mon, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Potensial Ltd (trading as Potens), a specialist support provider for adults with learning disabilities and mental health needs, has selected Advanced Business Solutions' financial management system (OpenAccounts) to support the company's growth and to improve management reporting. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/potens.php Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Direct Health is rolling-out an electronic call monitoring (ECM) solution from Advanced Heath & Care (Advanced), which includes iConnect, StaffPlan Roster, StaffPlan Monitor and Orange airtime, following a successful three month pilot. The contract with Direct Health is Advanced’s biggest ECM order to date, with 2000 care workers planning to use iConnect and 200 staff expected to use StaffPlan Roster. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/direct-health.php Mon, 23 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Medway Community Healthcare, a community interest company, is the first to implement the newly launched community healthcare system, Advanced Community, from Advanced Health & Care (Advanced). This is the first IT system designed specifically for community healthcare that has mobile working at its core. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/medway-community-healthcare.php Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care (Advanced) today announces the launch of ‘Advanced Community’. This is the first system designed specifically for community healthcare that has mobile working at its core. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/advanced-community.php Thu, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced), a leading provider of software and IT services to the UK health, care and business sectors, announces that it now supplies mobile devices inclusive of airtime as part of its iConnect and iNurse mobile working solutions - providing a complete 'one stop shop' for mobile working in the community care sector. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/onestopshop.php Thu, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Fylde Coast Medical Service (FCMS) is one of the first out-of-hours primary care providers in England to pilot the Department of Health's new initiative, NHS 111, using Advanced Health & Care's (Advanced's) Adastra system. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/flyde-coast.php Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading UK supplier of IT management systems for the health and care sector, today announces the launch of Electronic Call Monitoring (ECM) using near field communications (NFC) enabled Samsung mobile phones. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/derbyshire-nhs111.php Thu, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Derbyshire Health United (DHU) is one of the first out-of-hours primary care providers in England to pilot the Department of Health's new initiative, NHS 111, using Advanced Health & Care's (Advanced) Adastra technology. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/derbyshire-nhs111.php Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Northridge Healthcare Ltd, an independent business providing short break services for adults with multiple and complex health needs, has gone live with Advanced Heath and Care's fully integrated software solution for care providers, CareSys. This solution is enabling the delivery of efficient and quality patient care. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/northwidge-healthcare-caresys.php Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading provider of IT management systems for the health and social care sectors, is exhibiting on stand E47 at E-Health Insider (EHI) Live 2011 at the NEC, Birmingham on November 7th and 8th. EHI Live is a two day conference and exhibition for the health IT community, which focuses on the latest developments in healthcare IT. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/e-health-insider.php Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care (Advanced), a leading provider of IT management systems for the health and social care sectors, is exhibiting on stand E47 at E-Health Insider (EHI) Live 2011 at the NEC, Birmingham on November 7th and 8th. EHI Live is a two day conference and exhibition for the health IT community, which focuses on the latest developments in healthcare IT. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/e-health-insider.php Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Carewatch, one of the UK's leading providers of home care, has selected Advanced 365 as its IT outsourcing provider. Advanced 365 will be hosting Carewatch's IT infrastructure in a private cloud environment. The contract is £1.1 million over a five year period and the go live is expected by the end of 2011. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/carewatch.php Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software Group, a leading supplier of IT solutions to the health, care and business sectors, has two of its divisions - Advanced Health & Care (AHC) and Advanced Business Solutions (ABS) - exhibiting on stand 1 at the Healthcare Efficiency Through Technology Expo (4 October 2011, Olympia 2, London). This Expo is a free event where senior figures from the NHS, Department of Health, not-for-profit organisations and the private sector, gather to discuss and demonstrate how technology and innovation can help overcome efficiency challenges whilst improving healthcare services and patient outcomes. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/technology-expo.php Fri, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 The ExtraCare Charitable Trust, a leading provider of housing and flexible home care services for older people, has signed a five year managed service contract worth £1.4 million with Advanced 365, an Advanced Computer Software Group company (Advanced). http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/extracare.php Fri, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Real Life Options (RLO), a specialist not-for-profit provider of support services for people with learning disabilities, complex support needs and autism across England and Scotland, is establishing a strategic partnership with Advanced Computer Software Group plc (Advanced) to undertake the largest IT project in its history. Advanced is providing RLO with an integrated portfolio of IT solutions that will be hosted on-demand by Advanced 365 to support RLO's growth plans and to enable personalised, cost-effective and transparent support services. The planned go-live is Q1 2012 http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/real-life-options.php Fri, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Ayrshire Doctors On Call (ADOC) has migrated to a cloud-based implementation of the Adastra clinical patient management software system from Advanced Health & Care (AHC), an Advanced Computer Software Group company. Adastra is being used by ADOC to provide out of hours medical care for NHS Ayrshire & Arran's 380,000 population. ADOC, an Adastra user for more than 10 years, is the first AHC customer to use Adastra in a cloud environment. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/cloud-patient-management-system.php Fri, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care today announces rollout approval for the Patient Demographics Service, Choose and Book and electronic prescribing (EPS) modules of its Crosscare GP system, making it fully accredited for NHS Connecting for Health's GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) scheme. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/crosscare-accreditation.php Fri, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 InterHealth, a specialist medical charity that provides health services to major international agencies involved in humanitarian relief and poverty reduction across the world, is rolling-out Crosscard, a pioneering personal electronic medical records card from Advanced Health & Care (AHC). The roll-out is planned over the next few months with individuals initially being provided with the Crosscard personal medical records card on a trial basis. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/interhealth-crosscard.php Fri, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Motorola and Advanced Health & Care are empowering community healthcare professionals with iNurse, the integrated mobile nursing platform powered by Adastra from Advanced Health andamp; Care. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/resources/pdf/nhs-pathways-training.pdf Fri, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 An innovative web-based application that is improving end of life care for patients across the country has been shortlisted for a national award. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/ehi-award-2011.php Fri, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software Group plc (AIM: "ASW", "Advanced", or "the Group"), a leading provider of software and IT services to the UK health, care and business sectors, has entered into a partnership agreement with Vodafone UK to supply its iNurse product as part of Vodafone UK's mHealth Professional range of mobile solutions. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/vodafone.php Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 The history of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology can be traced back almost three decades to the early experiments in radio frequency identification (RFID) in the early 1980s. However, it is only thanks to recent developments in technology and mobile devices that NFC has started to have an impact on the way business works. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/abs/blog/2011/06/28/the-rebirth-of-nfc-technology/ Fri, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care's conference, 'The Health & Social Care Information Revolution' (25 - 26 May 2011 at The Cotswold Water Park Hotel, Cirencester), proved a stimulating forum for 300 delegates from the UK's leading 'out of hospital' care providers, who together deliver urgent & unscheduled care, hospice, residential, homecare, community care and social care. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/resources/pdf/pr-ahc-conference.pdf Fri, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Health & Care (AH&C), a leading supplier of IT management systems for health and social care services, is seeing a surge in demand for its revolutionary mobile workforce solution which leverages the latest Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in mobile phones. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/nfc-enabled-care-solutions.php Fri, 23 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Plain Healthcare is pleased to announce the signing of a reseller contract with the Advanced Health & Care division ('AH&C') of Advanced Computer Software Group plc ('ACS'), for the sale of its Odyssey CareAssess product in the UK care home market. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/resources/pdf/odyssey_reseller.pdf Fri, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Motorola and Advanced Health & Care are empowering community healthcare professionals with iNurse, the integrated mobile nursing platform powered by Adastra from Advanced Health andamp; Care. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/resources/pdf/handheld.pdf Fri, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Motorola and Advanced Health & Care are empowering community healthcare professionals with iNurse, the integrated mobile nursing platform powered by Adastra from Advanced Health andamp; Care. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/resources/pdf/handheld.pdf Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Plain Healthcare is pleased to announce the signing of a reseller contract with the Advanced Health & Care division ('AH&C') of Advanced Computer Software Group plc ('ACS'), for the sale of its Odyssey CareAssess product in the UK care home market. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/resources/pdf/odyssey_reseller.pdf Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Motorola and Advanced Health & Care are empowering community healthcare professionals with iNurse, the integrated mobile nursing platform powered by Adastra from Advanced Health andamp; Care. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/resources/pdf/handheld.pdf Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software Group plc, a leading provider of software and IT services for patient care, accounting and business management, has acquired Surrey based CareSys Software Ltd for andamp;#163;2.6m in cash. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/acs-buys-caresys.php Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 iNurse, the mobile healthcare system that frees up nurses and community teams to spend more time on patient care, is now being made available to thousands more staff on BlackBerry, one of the most widely-used mobile devices in the NHS. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/mobile-nursing-app-on-blackberry.php Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000 North Staffs Urgent Care Ltd (NSUC) has gone live with access to the Summary Care Record (SCR), facilitated by an upgrade to their Adastra Out-of-Hours Patient Management System. NSUC, a user of the Adastra system since 1994, provides Out-of-Hours care and advice to a patient population of 483,000 in North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent and receives in excess of 105,000 calls annually. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/adastra-helps-north-staffs.php Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software plc (Advanced) today announces it has signed a fve year contract with Pfzer to supply a hosted SAAS software solution supporting Pfizers Vascular Health Check Service to primary care organisations delivering vascular screening services through settings such as community pharmacies. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/adastra-pfizer.php Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Almost 400 health and social care professionals took time out over two days to attend the Adastra National Conference in May 2010, and tackle the prevailing more for less agenda head on. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/integrated-care-journey.php Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software plc, a leading provider of software and IT services to the healthcare and commercial sectors, has acquired Surrey-based Cerrus Ltd for andamp;#163;0.37m in cash. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/acs-buys-cerrus.php Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 The Burnley v Chelsea premiership match on 30th January was marked by presentation of the andamp;#163;19,000 proceeds of a charity cycle marathon from Bordeaux to Burnley by 20 of the Clubs keenest supporters last April. The end-of-season ride is an annual event and has now raised over andamp;#163;150,000 for the Clubs youth scheme and for local and national charities. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/strenuous-good-cause.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 StaffPlan congratulates three customers - Carewatch Group, RV Care and Support - for being nominated for the HealthInvestor Domiciliary Care Provider of the Year award. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/staffplan-congratulates-healthinvestor-finalists.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 As part of Adastras continuing programme of investment in their products and services, Service Desk Technicians are now available to take support calls directly, at any time of day and night without the need for a night time answering service. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/service-desk-goes-247.php Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Healthy Software has been acquired by Advanced Computer Software plc, a leading provider of software and IT services to the Primary Care sector. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/healthy-software-acquired-by-advanced-computer-software.php Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software plc Group (ACS) today announced that Saga Independent Living will implement StaffPlan Roster and StaffPlan Monitor to replace two existing systems and modernise their management of care worker deployment and monitoring. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/staffplan-saga-independent-living.php Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Leading IT Supplier of Unscheduled and Urgent Care Solutions, Adastra Software Ltd, is pleased to announce that a further four first-wave GP Led Health Centres in London - The Barkentine, Gracefeld Gardens, Lister Health Centre and Cator Medical Centre - have all chosen Adastras patient management system for unplanned care to run alongside GP surgery system EMIS. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/adastra-preferred-choice-gp-led-health-centres.php Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Adastra Software Ltd congratulates customer of 10 years, CAREDOC, on receiving top accolade from the prestigious ICT Excellence Awards programme - IT Project of the year (SME) Award http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/adastra-congratulates-customer.php Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Leading IT supplier of unplanned and urgent care solutions, Adastra Software Ltd, strengthens its market position in Equitable Access Centres as it announces a new Care UK site in Rotherham. /ahc/news/adastra-care-uk.php Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Advanced Computer Software, leading IT provider of unscheduled and urgent care solutions has acquired StaffPlan Ltd, a London based domiciliary and homecare software provider. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/staffplan-strengthen-inurse.php Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 We are delighted to announce that StaffPlan has concluded a transaction that will set it at the heart of a newly emerging group of companies coming together to become the leading force for IT in the health and social care sector. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/staffplan-bought-by-advanced-computer-software.php Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 A pictorial family tree, or Genogram, function has been added to Crosscare, primarily to help hospice customers for whom the immediate family and support network of a patient is of signifcant importance when providing care. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/family-tree-function-added-to-cross-care.php Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Having worked closely with NHS Connecting For Health to achieve spine compliance, the leading unscheduled care IT provider, Adastra, is delighted to report that their integrated solution is a big success with early adopter teams at BARDOC (Bury andamp; Rochdale Doctors on Call) and NHS Bolton. http://www.advancedcomputersoftware.com/ahc/news/one-click-access-made-easy.php Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0000