WHO calls for sharing of information in Europe
European countries should do a better job of assessing the performance of their health care systems and sharing that information with other states, World Health Organisation (WHO) officials have said, ahead of a ministerial conference next week. WHO’s regional office for Europe is holding its first ministerial conference on health systems, with the theme "health […]
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Lorenzo slipped ‘months ago’ say reports
A confidential report on the development of iSoft’s Lorenzo system has revealed delivery deadlines actually slipped several months ago, according to national media coverage. The Guardian newspaper and Computer Weekly magazine claim a leaked report produced by CSC, local service provider to the North, Midlands and East Programme for IT clearly states deadlines laid out […]
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Thieves break hospital security to take laptops
Six laptop computers, containing the data of around 20,000 patients have been stolen from a London hospital by thieves who broke into a locked cabinet in a secure room. The laptops were updated with the patient data following problems with a central computer network at St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust and were stored in offices at […]
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NHS Direct chooses partners for local care
NHS Direct has selected Pfizer Health Solutions and Humana Europe as its key partners in extending telephone-based care management services to PCTs across the UK later this year. The companies will be working together to introduce new call-centre based care management services, designed specifically for individual PCTs looking for telephone schemes to “reach out to […]
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Sonic Healthcare acquires GLP Medical Group
German laboratory information system developer, GLP Medical Group, has been acquired by Australian diagnostics software specialist, Sonic Healthcare, in a deal worth approximately €30m. GLP Medical is based in Hamburg and specialises in laboratory software. Formerly known as “Labor Dr von Froreich & Kollegen”, the company is widely used across Germany and other parts of […]
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EHI’s news roundup 13.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 13 June 2008 features new initiatives, supplier news, awards and newly published reports. New websites and web tools: Department of Health revises Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool A revised Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool is to be launched to help areas identify local health inequalities and […]
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Portsmouth deploys electronic document management
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has fully deployed an electronic document management system, using barcodes to store information on the location of paper records that have to be kept for legal reasons. The trust deployed the EDM system in May this year, after two years of piloting. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo in London earlier […]
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CfH overlooks the present at Smart Healthcare
NHS Connecting for Health’s presence at this week’s Smart Healthcare expo left many attendees disappointed. Chief operating officer, Gordon Hextall, and national clinical director, Dr Mark Davies, were unexpectedly absent, and their stand-ins had little to say about current concerns. Hextall pulled out of Tuesday’s stream – ‘Leading transformational change in the NHS’ – which […]
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Negotiations over £143m Fujitsu advance continue
Questions about advance payments made to Fujitsu by NHS Connecting for Health are still to be resolved, as discussions on contract termination continue between the two parties. Figures submitted to the National Audit Office on 31 March showed that Fujitsu received £370m out of £1.3billion of advance payments from CfH, but were to repay £143m. […]
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Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London
Kevin Jarrold, NHS London’s chief information officer and the London Programme for IT’s regional implementation director, has pledged to have installed 15 acute care records systems by the end of the current financial year. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo, Jarrold said that after a “patchy” start for LPfIT in delivering core systems to acute […]
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