Multimedia organ donor campaign launches
NHS Blood and Transplant has launched a UK-wide multimedia campaign to promote organ donation. The £3m campaign, coordinated by the government’s Central Office of Information, includes the health service’s first national television campaign and an online game. The campaign aims to highlight the fact that three people in need of a transplant die every day, […]
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Jordan unveils integrated health system
The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has unveiled its integrated healthcare technology system for the first time in public. The demonstration at the Prince Hamzah Hospital in Amman showcased the VistA open source clinical and healthcare information management system and the computerized patient record system due to be implemented over the next year. The Hakeem project […]
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Blackpool: ‘All systems go for Alert’
The board of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has approved the proposal for Alert Life Sciences to become the supplier of the trust’s electronic patient record system. Philip Graham, head of IM&T, told E-Health Insider that the case for Vision – the name given to the project by trust staff – had […]
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SRC and PCTI sign deal
Digital dictation and voice recognition software supplier SRC has announced that it has signed an agreement with document management specialist PCTI Solutions to enable NHS trusts to deliver electronic documents to GP surgeries. The agreement means PCTI’s Electronic Document Transfer solution, which captures documents from hospital systems and transfers them to GP practices, has been […]
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EuroKing faces liquidation
Maternity systems supplier EuroKing Miracle Limited looks set to be liquidated. HM Revenue and Customs filed a petition to wind up the company at the High Court of Justice’s Chancery Division in September. The London Gazette has just published a notice saying that the case will be heard next week. EuroKing enjoyed considerable success as a […]
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Tories promise records for all
Patient-held records are one of the Conservative Party’s priorities for health, according to plans published today. The party said it would carry out a full consultation on how to move to patient-held records with a view to introducing them throughout the NHS. In a speech at the Royal College of Pathologists, party leader David Cameron said […]
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Lorenzo has just 174 ‘regular users’
Figures released by the government show that a year after the first hospital went live with Lorenzo, there are only about 174 “regular users” across the five NHS trusts using the system.
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EC provides €300m to ‘smarten’ systems
The European Commission has unveiled its strategy to put Europe at the forefront of the development of smart internet powered infrastructures. It has called on Europe’s governments and ICT sectors to take advantage of the increasing demand for innovative applications of the internet to make existing infrastructures, like healthcare systems, smarter. The Commission has said […]
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BigHand cuts practice turnaround times
BigHand says that its digital dictation workflow technology has improved the turnaround time for patient notes by 40% at one GP practice. BigHand technology has replaced analogue tape dictation equipment for ten GPs and five secretaries at the Yaxley Group Practice in Peterborough. Before the installation, GPs often found that the tapes would break and […]
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NHS North East Essex prepares for EPS R2
NHS North East Essex is preparing patients for the go-live of Release 2 of the national Electronic Prescription Service. Pharmacies have started to invite patients to nominate the pharmacy at which they would like to receive their prescription. NHS North East Essex expects to dispense its first electronic prescriptions from April 2010. Pharmacies in its […]
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