Siemens wins South African Soarian deal
Siemens Healthcare has won an €18m deal to provide 37 hospitals and 300 clinics in South Africa with its Soarian MedSuite healthcare IT software.
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King’s picks McKesson whiteboard system
One of London’s largest hospital trusts is to scrap its manual whiteboards and install a real time room and patient visibility system from McKesson. King’s College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is to install McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Visibility, a visual control system designed specifically for hospitals, as part of its Releasing Time to Care: The […]
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Microsoft recognises EMIS and CareWorks
UK IT system suppliers EMIS and CareWorks have been named as two of three worldwide finalists in Microsoft’s Public Sector Health Partner of the Year awards. The overall winner in the category was US-based iLink Systems which worked with Microsoft’s HealthVault and Microsoft’s Health Common User Interface to implement a community-based personal health record system […]
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EU issues telemedicine update
The European Commission has published a new staff working paper on telemedicine which adds further detail to the ‘Communication’ on telemedicine published last November.
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NW Ambulance Service COIN
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust has created a community of interest network to link its headquarters and ambulance stations. The new infrastructure runs across the NHS’ broadband network, N3, and links 141 trust sites in Greater Manchester, Cumbria and Lancashire, and Cheshire and Merseyside. The trust estimates the COIN will save it around £60,000 […]
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Hampshire outsources IT support
NHS Hampshire has announced that it has selected Healthcare Computing for its IT managed support service. The contract award means Healthcare Computing will provide IT support to more than 150 GP practices across Hampshire, the largest primary care trust in the country, covering more than 1.2m residents. Andy Eyles, head of ICT for primary care […]
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Ofcom launches 111 consultation
Ofcom has launched a consultation on the use of a national 111 non-emergency number for healthcare. Following the consultation, the Department of Health plans to pilot the new number and to roll the service out across England. Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, will run the consultation from today, looking at use […]
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Industry round-up 09.07.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments, observed trends and other news from leading healthcare IT suppliers. South Manchester utilises Hornbill’s Supportworks The University of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has applied Hornbill’s Supportworks ITSM service management software to manage the NHS Registration Authority smart card system that it is introducing […]
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Global IT spending set to fall further
Industry analysts Gartner are predicting that worldwide IT spending is on pace to total €2.3 trillion ($3.2 trillion) in 2009, a 6% decline from 2008 spending of €2.4 trillion ($3.4 trillion). All four major segments of IT – hardware, software, IT services and telecommunications – are predicted to experience a decline in revenue, something that did […]
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UPMC team displaces Royal Berks staff
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has handed redundancy notices to its entire electronic patient record team as it prepares to implement a Cerner system with University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre.
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