NHScat-IT Lauched
The NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency has launched a new catalogue of IT and telecommunications products and services for the NHS. The new catalogue, called NHScat-IT, was developed by PASA and buying.solutions arm of the Office of Government Commerce, it replaces the previous NHS Hardware and Software and Gcat contracts. According to PASA the partnership […]
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Kaiser Hospitals Buys Bankrupt Webvan’s E-commerce Technology
During the dotcom boom, procurement managers in the health sector were told they risked being left behind if they failed to instantly harness the opportunities of e-commerce. But thanks to the continuing dotcom downturn, the more cautious "wait and see" approach adopted by many appears to have paid off, with some healthcare organisations now able […]
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MD Consult Partners with American Academy of Family Physicians
MD Consult, the US online clinical information service for physicians, has formed a new alliance with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) to make its information and education resources available online. Under the agreement, users of the MD Consult service will gain access to full-text articles from the AAFP’s range of family medicine journals, […]
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Docobo Demonstrates Benefits of Cardiac Monitoring System
Docobo Ltd, the leading Estonian telemedicine firm, has announced the publication of favourable results for clinical trials of its doc@home home monitoring programme for patients with hypertension, which it claims confirm the usefulness of the system for treating cardiac patients. Benefits identified in the trials included reductions in patients’ blood pressure and body weight, together […]
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New E-Prescribing Alliance Between Merck-Medco and Cybear
A new alliance in US electronic prescribing will deliver real-time access to medication data to physicians at the point of care. The deal will allow pharmacy benefits manager, Merck-Medco, to gain access to Cybear’s Internet enabled software and service systems, including the Physicians Online portal, its @Rx prescription management system and technology for electronically transmitted […]
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Palm Awards Mobile Medicine Grants to 17 US Universities
Palm Inc., the provider of mobile and wireless Internet solutions and handheld data devices, has awarded grants to 17 US universities and teaching hospitals to promote the use of mobile data devices in medicine and research how handhelds affect students’ learning. Under the new programme Palm has provided a total of 1,000 Palm IIIc handheld […]
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Telemedicine Holds Promise of Improved Access to Healthcare
Telemedicine holds the promise of improving access to health care – especially in areas where there are geographical barriers – and of reducing costs, but it suffers from the glamorous image associated with using high technology, a major clinical review in the British Medical Journal concludes. The reviewer, telemedicine expert, Richard Wootton, looked at 969 […]
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NHS Awaits Treasury Approval of Landmark Microsoft Deal
The Department of Health and NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency (PASA) have completed negotiations of a critical national software licensing deal with Microsoft to provide the company’s latest desktop personal productivity and back office applications to 300,000 NHS users. Final approval of the business plan is expected from the Treasury within the next two weeks. […]
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Mobile EMIS Moves Closer
The day when any GP or district nurse using EMIS technology will be able to carry patient records and add consultation notes on a Palm or pocket PC is getting close. Demonstrations of mobile technology for GPs and community nursing at the EMIS National User Group conference showed well-advanced software that is eagerly awaited: the […]
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Online Toolkit Aids GP Appraisals
An online toolkit to help GPs through the appraisals process was demonstrated at the EMIS National User Group conference at Warwick University. The Appraisals Toolkit at http://www.appraisals.nhs.uk, developed at the Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics in Newcastle (SCHIN), was presented by GP education lead, Dr Paul Robinson, who explained that the aim was to provide […]
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