ICW says LifeSensor can handle 10,000 users
Simulated benchmark tests carried out on InterComponentWare’s LifeSensor personal health record (PHR) have shown that the system can handle 10,000 concurrent virtual uers and 10m records. Germany’s ICW conducted the test over a ten-day period at the Hewlett Packard European Performance and Benchmark Centre, Stuttgart, Germany. According to ICW the performance test verified LifeSensor’s capacity, […]
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Carestream rolls out French ‘pay-as-you-go’ PACS
Carestream Health, formerly Kodak Health, has announced that 37 privately owned French medical facilities are now using its Hosted Information Management (HIM) system, a pay-as-you-go system for remote archiving, storage and image sharing. HIM is one of a number of eHealth Managed Services from Carestream Health designed to archive, share and distribute medical data more […]
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South may split between CSC and BT
No single prime contractor may be appointed to replace Fujitsu in the programme to upgrade NHS IT systems in the South of England. Instead, the region may be split between the two remaining prime contractors, BT and Computer Sciences Corporation. E-Health Insider has learned that some trusts covered by NHS South East Coast, one of […]
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European Institute of Technology board appointed
The European Commission has announced appointments to the governing body of the new European Institute of Technology (EIT), an initiative intended to help drive technology innovation across the continent. By boosting the EU’s capacity to transform education and research results into tangible commercial innovation opportunities, the EIT is intended to help bridge the innovation gap […]
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NHS managers not committed to informatics
Efforts to harness health informatics to improve patient care have been "impeded" by a basic lack of commitment from NHS managers. This is a central message from the British Computer Society’s Health Informatics Forum in its response to the government’s recent Health Informatics Review. The HIF finds much to praise in the report, although it […]
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Leicester implements ‘interim’ order comms
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has carried out the first phase of the deployment of an interim order communications system supplied by iSoft, delivered by Computer Sciences Corporation. The implementation – initially to a small number of wards – is the first time under the National Programme for IT in the NHS that local […]
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Fujitsu exit costs Cerner £89m in lost bookings
Cerner has said the termination of Fujitsu’s contract as local service provider to the Southern Programme for IT cost it £89m ($178m) in bookings removed from its second quarter results. Despite the revised figures, the US clinical software company on Tuesday posted strong figures for the second quarter, showing revenue up to £201m ($402.8m). It said […]
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BJHC goes into liquidation
The company responsible for the annual Healthcare Computing exhibition in Harrogate has gone into liquidation, ending an event that has run for a quarter of a century. BJHC Ltd has run the Healthcare Computing exhibition for the past 25 years alongside the Healthcare Computing conference organised by the British Computer Society’s (BCS) Health Informatics Forum. […]
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‘Choozomatic’ praised by NHS Institute
The ‘Choozomatic’ – a patient voice-activated, touch screen device that is wirelessly linked to wristbands telling doctors and nurses who needs their help, has been singled out for praise by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement. The Choozomatic, developed by Chloee Robinson from Charter Primary School in Coventry, has only reached the cardboard and […]
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Bath ends planned Fujitsu deployment
Bath’s Royal United Hospital NHS Trust has terminated the planned implementation of a Cerner Millennium care record system that was to have been supplied by Fujitsu. On 26 June, E-health Insider reported that the trust had delayed a planned 12 July implementation, because of the uncertainty created by Fujitsu’s departure as the National Programme for […]
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