5 July 2006

Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children to install Vocera

Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children is to install the Vocera hands-free wireless voice communication system. The new system, which
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4 July 2006

More problems with London child health software

The Health Protection Agency has strongly criticised the interim child health systems used by ten primary care trusts in London
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4 July 2006

NHS IT project runs up £28.2m legal bill

Connecting for Health has received a £28.2m bill for legal work, one of the biggest ever bills for legal work
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4 July 2006

Accenture examining alternatives to iSoft

The chief executive of Accenture has said that the company is examining alternatives to its sub-contractor iSoft in relation to
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4 July 2006

Free receptionist software offered for EMIS LV

Plain Healthcare is offering a year’s free use of their receptionist support software for EMIS LV users in return for
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3 July 2006

Sealed envelope safety risk raised by BMA

Doctors have raised concerns that Connecting for Health proposals to allow patients to hide some information in sealed envelopes puts
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3 July 2006

Ascribe acquires HEIS in £6.5m deal

Healthcare solutions group, Ascribe, has acquired clinical and management information system supplier, HE Information Systems, in a £6.492m deal designed
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3 July 2006

Ethitec extends community EPR for Leicester PCTs

Six primary care trusts in Leicestershire have begun work on implementing a community electronic patient record system for children’s systems
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3 July 2006

iSoft claim Australian successes

iSoft have announced the initial rollout of its iPM PAS system at Orange Base Hospital, in Orange, near Sydney, Australia.
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30 June 2006

EHR opt-out debate “doesn’t matter to patients”

The question of whether patients opt into having their electronic records shared or have to specifically request to opt out
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