CANTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 21, 2026--
New Victoria Hospital (London, UK) has announced it is live with MEDITECH Expanse, an intelligent electronic patient record (EPR) platform that serves as its modern foundation for advancing safe, connected, and patient-centric care.
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Frequently recognised by patients as one of London’s top private hospitals, the organisation is leveraging Expanse to enhance care delivery, strengthen clinical connectivity, and support its vision for the future of healthcare.
With MEDITECH Expanse, New Victoria Hospital now benefits from a single, integrated EPR that provides clinicians with real-time access to comprehensive patient information, supporting more informed decision-making and coordinated care delivery. The platform's enhanced digital tools and streamlined workflows help to improve efficiency, reduce duplication, and strengthen communication across departments, enabling clinicians to spend more time focused on patient care.
Andrew Fairweather, CEO at New Victoria Hospital, said: “At New Victoria Hospital, we are focused on delivering exceptional patient care and investing in the technologies that will help us do so for years to come.”
“MEDITECH Expanse serves as the foundation of our digital strategy, providing a modern, interoperable platform that supports safer, more efficient, and connected care. Its flexibility and future-ready capabilities will enable us to leverage innovations such as AI, while continuing to enhance the experience for both patients and clinicians.”
A MEDITECH partner for more than 20 years, New Victoria Hospital moved to Expanse from a legacy platform after a thorough evaluation of EPR systems in Europe and the US. Hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, Expanse delivers the scalability and advanced security needed to support emerging technologies. The cloud infrastructure also centralises services and simplifies onboarding for facilities seeking a modern, unified hosting environment.
New Victoria Hospital's move to MEDITECH Expanse reflects its ongoing commitment to patient-centered care and to enhancing patient empowerment. Central to this initiative is the launch of the MyHealth patient portal, which provides patients with convenient digital access to appointments, health information, forms, and secure communication tools.
As a private healthcare provider, New Victoria Hospital values Expanse’s ability to enable clinicians to access a single, up-to-date patient record at the point of care. Clinicians benefit from standardised workflows that support structured documentation, electronic prescribing, and integrated results from diagnostics and theatres, while automated safety checks help reduce variation and support timely, evidence-based decisions.
Gina Kerley, Executive Director at MEDITECH, said: “Congratulations to New Victoria Hospital on this significant milestone in its digital transformation journey. As a longstanding partner, it is incredibly rewarding to continue working together to advance care through innovation. We look forward to supporting New Victoria Hospital as it leverages Expanse to enhance the patient experience, strengthen clinical connectivity, and achieve meaningful outcomes for years to come.”
Learn more about how MEDITECH is helping to advance care in the UK and Ireland.
About MEDITECH
MEDITECH empowers healthcare organisations to expand their vision of what’s possible with Expanse, the intelligent EPR. Expanse provides a future-ready foundation that leverages the power of AI, cloud computing, and advanced interoperability to support world-class care in 28 countries and territories. For over 30 years, our systems have been deployed in numerous private healthcare facilities and NHS Trusts throughout the UK, including university, paediatric, women and cancer centre speciality Trusts. Learn more at ehr.meditech.com/uk-ireland and follow us on YouTube, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge is set to decide at a hearing that opens Tuesday whether there is enough evidence to put singer D4vd on trial in the killing and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl that authorities said had threatened to expose their relationship.
Prosecutors have said the evidence will show that 21-year-old D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, brought Celeste Rivas Hernandez to the Hollywood Hills house he was renting, stabbed her multiple times then cut apart her body in his garage using chain saws.
The preliminary hearing in Los Angeles is expected to last about four days and will look much like an abbreviated trial. There is no jury. Judge Charlaine Olmedo will decide whether the prosecution offered enough evidence to demonstrate probable cause to proceed to trial.
It will be the first public presentation of evidence against Burke, who was arrested in April and pleaded not guilty to murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 and unlawful mutilation of human remains. His attorney, Blair Berk, has said Burke is not responsible for Rivas Hernandez's death.
The defendant, who has been held without bail in a jail near the courthouse since his arrest, will appear in court in his jail clothes, after the judge rejected a request that he be able to wear a suit as is usually allowed at a jury trial. No cameras will be allowed in the courtroom.
Soon after his arrest, prosecutors filed a memo, which the defense unsuccessfully tried to have sealed, outlining what their evidence would show at this hearing.
The filing said Burke met Rivas Hernandez when she was 11, began sexually abusing her when she was 13 and he was 18, and killed her when she threatened to report him.
She was reported missing multiple times in the years before her death, and prosecutors said they have evidence she was with Burke for long stretches, including a trip to Texas where she met his family. Detectives had contacted him about her, but authorities say he lied and said he had only met her once and didn't know she was a minor. Prosecutors said they have sexual text messages and photos the two exchanged.
A court filing said he sent a car to pick her up on the night of April 23, 2025, from her hometown of Lake Elsinore, California, some 80 miles (129 km) outside of Los Angeles. The two exchanged messages until she arrived at his Hollywood home, after which her phone went dead.
“Knowing he had to silence the victim before she ruined his music career as she had threatened, very soon after her arrival at his home, defendant stabbed the victim to death multiple times and stood by while she bled out,” the document said.
Prosecutors said they have records showing Burke ordered chain saws and wading pools that he used to dismember her body in his garage, and that her DNA was found there on blood stains discovered when police served a search warrant.
They said he then drove around for months with the body in the trunk. About four months after her death, her decomposing body was found in the Tesla registered to Burke that had been towed from the Hollywood Hills in September.
Prosecutors said the car was parked around the corner from his house, and surveillance video will show he was the last person to drive it.
It's not entirely clear why it took seven more months to arrest Burke — though uncooperative witnesses had to be subpoenaed and the final autopsy report showing she was stabbed was not released until December.
The defense has not publicly provided its version of events.
Preliminary hearings like this one serve a similar function to that of grand jury proceedings. Prosecutors generally present only as much evidence as they think they need to, and witnesses are kept to a minimum — mostly police and other investigators. For defense attorneys, it can provide ways to explore potential weaknesses in witness testimony that they can exploit at a trial.
D4vd began making music for YouTube he created of the video game Fortnite when he was a teenager.
The songs he wrote and recorded on his phone were a blend of indie rock, R&B and lo-fi pop. The music made him a phenomenon on TikTok, Instagram, Soundcloud and Spotify, where his top songs, including his 2022 breakthrough “Romantic Homicide,” have more than a billion plays. In 2023, he released two EPs and opened for SZA on tour.
He performed at last year's Coachella music festival just a few weeks before prosecutors said Rivas Hernandez was killed, and his album was released. Five months later, he was on tour promoting it in when the body was discovered.
FILE - D4vd appears at Variety's Power of Young Hollywood in Los Angeles on Aug. 8, 2024. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - David Anthony Burke, whose stage name is D4vd, is arraigned in Los Angeles, April 20, 2026, on charges of killing a 14-year-old girl whose dismembered body was found in his car. (Ted Soqui/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - A makeshift Memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was killed and found inside a vehicle owned by singer D4vd, is placed outside her home in Lake Elsinore, Calif., on April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)
FILE - A makeshift memorial for Celeste Rivas Hernandez, whose body was found inside a vehicle owned by singer D4vd, is displayed outside her home in Lake Elsinore, Calif., on April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
