Dr Foster names safety underperformers
The Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2009 has named 12 NHS trusts that it says have significantly underperformed on its new measure of patient safety. The guide, published over the weekend, identifies patient safety as the single most important element of hospital care. For the first time, it has introduced a Patient Safety Score, awarding scores of one to […]
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EHI’s industry round up 30.11.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news about system deployments, company partnerships, product launches and other developments in healthcare IT. Allocate Software launches expenses module Allocate Software has launched an expenses module to help ease the administrative burden for staff entering, approving and processing expense claims. Paul Scandrett, director of healthcare at Allocate said: […]
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IBM signs Spanish healthcare deal
IBM and Telvent Global Services have signed a multi-million Euro agreement with the Castilla y Leon government in North-West Spain to improve back office management of the province’s healthcare centres. As part of the agreement a healthcare management system will be rolled out to all the health centres in order to enhance aggregated procurement from […]
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Fracture risk tool built using QResearch
A score to predict the risk of patients suffering fractures due to osteoporosis has been developed using the QResearch database. The fracture risk algorithm, QFractureScores, can be used by clinicians and patients to calculate an individual’s percentage risk of an osteoporotic fracture over the next ten years, allowing early interventions to take place according to […]
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Hospital IT ‘does not cut costs’
Computerising hospitals delivers a small improvement in quality but does not cut costs, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine. Indeed, the detailed correlation of data from a hospital computerisation survey, cost reports and quality scores, shows that the hospitals that have computerised fastest in the past decade have also seen […]
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Aintree sticks with System C
Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a new upgraded clinical information system from System C. The trust, which has used System C software for over a decade, has become the latest to upgrade to the company’s Medway Sigma Clinician’s Desktop, which is now in use across the organisation. Over 1,000 staff […]
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Bordeaux to host IHE Connectathon
The tenth annual IHE European Connectathon will be take place in Bordeaux, France, 2-16 April 2010. The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) interoperability testing event will bring together around 300 information technology engineers from 90 companies to enable them to assess the interoperability of applications used in health information systems. At the IHE Connectathon all companies implementing […]
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Oldham outsources IT to Computacenter
NHS Oldham has outsourced its IT services to Computacenter in a four year deal worth £650,000 a year. The primary care trust says the deal has already saved it 10% on its previous arrangements, provided by a PCT-run shared service. It estimates savings of a further 25% over the next year to 18 months. Stephen […]
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Bury formally accepts Lorenzo R1.9
NHS Bury has accepted iSoft’s electronic patient record system, three weeks after becoming the first NHS organisation to go-live with Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9.
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HSS completes EuroKing buy-out
EuroKing Miracle has confirmed that is has been acquired by Healthcare Software Systems (HSS). The company faced liquidation by HM Revenue and Customs for non-payment of PAYE contributions. However, it was bought out by HSS before the hearing went ahead at the High Court of Justice’s Chancery Division. Mark Sprigg, chief executive officer of EuroKing Miracle, […]
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