NHS Spine reaches one billion monthly transactions for the first time
NHS Digital said the latest figures shows a growing demand in digital services across the sector, with the platform handling 3,500 messages a second.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: Improving patient safety with Scan4Safety
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has used a healthcare e-commerce solution since 2002, and in recent years has introduced a cloud-based catalogue system – making it far easier to share standardised data – and an inventory control system.
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NHS banned from buying new fax machines as Hancock orders phase-out
Matt Hancock has banned NHS organisations from buying new fax machines beyond January 2019, under plans to remove them from the NHS entirely by 2020.
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County Durham and Darlington secures long-term deal with Philips
Philips will be responsible for ensuring radiology equipment across all of the trust’s hospital sites is well-maintained and replaced regularly.
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Special Report: VNA and Data Storage
The benefits of vendor neutral archives in healthcare have been well rehearsed. But could combining this kind of storage with the growth of cloud yield even more advantages for the NHS? Maja Dragovic investigates.
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Mandatory open standards will not close health IT market, DHSC believes
The department was questioned by the Public Accounts Committee about proposals that call for NHS IT suppliers to abide by a clear set of open standards.
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Essex trust awards £5.7m HSCN connectivity contract to Updata Infrastructure
The five-year contract sees Capita-owned Updata move EPUT from the legacy N3 Network to the new, multi-vendor Health and Social Care Network.
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A host of changes: moving a PHR to the managed cloud
After six years of growth – and with the promise of more on the horizon – staff at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust decided to move its online patient service into the managed cloud. According to Kevin Hamer, the trust’s IT development service manager, it is a change which was not challenge-free but from which benefits have almost immediately flowed.
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Department close to settling 10-year NPfIT legal battle with Fujitsu
Digital Health News understands that the DHSC has now settled with Fujitsu for a further payment said to be in the region of £400m.
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals pledges to ‘axe the fax’ by 1 January
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust has pledged to bin over 300 of its fax machines before the New Year in a bid oust outdated tech from its wards.
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