8 September 2009

Microsoft asks NHS what next for its EwA

Microsoft is running a consultation to ask NHS IT professionals what they want to see in a future Enterprise wide
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7 September 2009

Alcatel-Lucent chosen by North Bristol

North Bristol NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to provide it with an advanced IP telephony system. The
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4 September 2009

Reported drug errors increase, says NPSA

The incidence of reported drug errors leading to avoidable deaths and patient harm is on the increase, according to a
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3 September 2009

Cerner go-live at Newcastle delayed

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has decided to take additional time before going live with a big bang implementation of
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2 September 2009

Survey of Spanish docs online

A third of Spanish doctors say that patient’s looking up details of their condition online can complicate their relationship with
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2 September 2009

Bupa carries out SWIFT migration

UK health insurer, Bupa, has completed a large scale migration of data as part of the consolidation of legacy applications
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2 September 2009

St Jude connects to implantable devices

Implantable medical device specialist St Jude Medical has launched Merlin.net, a secure, Internet-based remote care system for patients with implanted
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2 September 2009

Piedmont implements Carestream PACS/RIS

The Maggiore della Carità Hospital in Novara, Piedmont, Italy, has begun implementation of a RIS/PACS solution from Carestream Health. The
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21 August 2009

Thousands of Lab samples ‘mislabelled’

Tens of thousands of clinical samples are being wrongly labelled when they arrived at NHS pathology laboratories, an investigation has
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19 August 2009

US hospital EMR sales slumped in 2008

US sales of electronic medical record systems to large hospitals fell to a seven year low in 2008. Sales of
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