Med-e-Tel to focus on spreading telemedicine
The first Med-e-Tel telemedicine and e-health conference to be held since the European Commission’s Telemedicine Communication will take place in Luxembourg next week. The Commission’s Telemedicine Communication, which provides an ambitious framework for dramatically improving access to telemedicine for EU citizens and healthcare professionals across Europe, was published in November 2008, and will be a central focus […]
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Oasis EPR goes live at Benenden
Oasis Medical Solutions announced today that its eponymous electronic patient record system has been successfully deployed at Benenden Hospital Trust.
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Healthcare Commission calls for better early warning systems
The Healthcare Commission has said that early warning systems on patient safety incidents, which highlight key issues on quality of patient care, must be improved.
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Southend secures email with Proofpoint
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out a secure email solution from Proofpoint across its 2,500 PCs. The move follows a review of IT in May 2008, which showed the trust needed to improve its email security to meet Department of Health guidelines introduced as a result of data leaks in the NHS. […]
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Clinical Solutions partners with Fujitsu in Spain
Fujitsu and Clinical Solutions have announced a partnership to improve access to healthcare advice and services in Spain. Under the new partnership the two firms will work together on projects designed to improve the delivery of quality healthcare through the use of intelligent systems and data analysis. Areas of joint work will focus on the […]
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Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign
Tower Hamlets has become the latest primary care trust to use Imprivata OneSign. The single sign-on solution is being rolled out to provide 600 of the trust’s staff with secure access to applications including clinical systems and NHSmail. OneSign is more conventionally used in acute trusts, but it is already being used by other PCTs […]
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Agfa starts roll out in Basque region
Agfa IMPAX 6 PACS Agfa Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed the first phase of its imaging and informatics solution to the Basque region of Spain. It has deployed the solution across seven of the 28 Osakidetza facilities run by the Basque Health Service. Agfa was selected in 2007 to install its IMPAX […]
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Alder Hey goes wireless with Xirrus
One of Europe’s biggest children’s hospitals has announced that it will be completely wireless within four months. Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool started deploying Xirrus’ Wi-Fi Array three weeks ago in its clinical areas. It intends to provide 100% coverage, including lobbies and outside areas, by the summer. This should allow doctors, […]
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Carestream Health innnovations in Vienna
Carestream superPACS Carestream Health has unveiled a new architecture at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna. The architecture, which will be available to order in April, will enable trusts to bring together systems from multiple vendors and multiple sites. This should enable them to streamline workflows by allowing patient information and images to be […]
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Hi-tech features in 150th CMO report
The chief medical officer’s annual report has highlighted the need for surgeons to be trained using simulation techniques. The report, published by Professor Sir Liam Donaldson yesterday, devotes a chapter to simulation and says that surgeons trained using simulation methods make fewer errors and carry out technically more exact procedures. However, it says that although […]
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