Department of Health awards £325m HR and Payroll Contract
The UK Department of Health (DH) has awarded a £325 million contract — the largest IT contract yet awarded within the NHS — for an integrated HR and payroll system for the NHS in England and Wales to a consortium led by US health IT firm McKesson. The HR and Payroll contract, described as the […]
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iSOFT Appoints European Chief Executive
Manchester-based health information firm iSOFT Group plc has appointed Ken Jacobson as European Chief Executive, indicating added emphasis on an extended European acquisitions strategy. As European CEO, Jacobson will be responsible for consolidating iSOFT’s position in the development of healthcare information systems and will focus on organic and acquisitive growth across Europe. He takes up […]
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PKI Token System Adopted for Australian Health System
The Australian Health Insurance Commission has awarded a contract to Rainbow eSecurity, a provider of transaction security solutions, to provide Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based Internet security systems to be deployed across the Australian healthcare system. The introduction of reliable, secure confidential electronic communications will enable confidential patient information and data to be exchanged electronically, providing a […]
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Wanless on Information Technology
The UK health service has a poor record on the use of information and communication technology and spending in this area will need to grow at a faster rate over the next 20 years to catch up and keep up with other countries, according to the Wanless Report on NHS funding. Most of the headlines […]
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Care Pathways Database Added to NELH
A list of over 2,000 care pathways, in use or under development in over 200 NHS organisations, has been added to the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) in a new care pathways database. The new database is intended to help cut down on duplication of effort, improve collaboration and speed up the implementation of […]
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HealthNexis Merges with Global Health Exchange
Online health e-business firms Global Healthcare Exchange(GHX) and HealthNexis have announced plans to combine their operations into a single, comprehensive Internet-based exchange. Supplier members of both organisations will be connected to GHX’s growing membership of 70 integrated delivery networks (IDNs), representing nearly 600 hospitals. The combined exchange will operate under the name Global Healthcare Exchange, […]
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DH Wants Board-Level Information Leads in New SHAs
The Department of Health has signalled that it wants to see information management and technology represented at the highest levels in the new NHS strategic health authorities (SHAs). Director of research, analysis and information, Sir John Pattison, told the NHS Information Authority’s annual conference that health minister Lord Hunt was “very keen to establish IM&T […]
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MD Consult Donates Online Medical Library to Latvia
Physicians, medical students and other health professionals in Latvia now have access to a comprehensive collection of medical resources available on the Web through MD Consult, a division of Elsevier Science. MD Consult has donated a license for the MD Consult Core Collection to the Medical Research Library of Latvia and its nine branch libraries, […]
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iSOFT promoted to FTSE Index
The UK, Manchester-based healthcare information systems firm iSOFT has been promoted to the City of London’s premier division after being added to the FTSE 250 index. Inclusion in the index reflects the increased value of iSOFT’s shares, following the firm’s flotation in June 2000. Since floating at 110p per share in June 2000 with a […]
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GSK launch Respiratory Channel with Doctors.net.uk
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to support the launch of an online respiratory channel for chest medicine specialists and GPs on Doctors.net.uk, the UK doctor-only online community. The new channel has been developed to provide doctors with interactive information on respiratory medicine. The channel will host a number of online resources, including eContinuing Medical Education, online conferencing […]
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