Blackpool uses ASCC for EPR procurement
Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has begun a procurement process for elements of an electronic patient record using the ASCC framework catalogue.
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Queen Mary’s to investigate EMIS Web
NHS Wandsworth is exploring whether EMIS Web could take the role intended for Cerner Millenium at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Roehampton, London. The primary care trust has abandoned plans to install Millenium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, as reported by E-Health Insider in May, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. Last week […]
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iSoft signs sixth German Lorenzo site
iSoft has announced that Christophorus-Kliniken will become the sixth early adopter of its Lorenzo system in Germany. The organisation is an existing client for iSoft’s ClinicCentre, LabCentre and BusinessCentre systems. The new contract covers three hospitals in Coesfeld, Dulmen and Nottuln in North Rhine-Westphalia, which provide a total of 620 beds and employ 1,500 staff. […]
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iSoft Synergy to start GP2GP testing
Progress on the GP2GP electronic records transfer programme remains on track with plans to start testing iSoft’s Synergy system at the end of this month, the BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group heard. If testing goes to plan on the roadmap published by NHS Connecting for Health, Synergy will join Emis’ LV and INPS’ Vision […]
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FASS up to 100,000 telecare deployments
The biggest monitoring centre for telecare alarms in mainland Europe has announced its 100,000th telecare deployment. The Fundacion Andaluza de Servicios Sociales of the Junta de Andalucia, which has 99 operator stations in Seville and 55 in Malaga, has installed telecare solutions across its region, working with Tunstall Healthcare. Over the past year, the two […]
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New co-chair for IHE
Jacqueline Surugue has been appointed as co-chair for users on the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise steering committee. Surugue is a hospital pharmacist from the Poitou Charentes region of France, where she heads the pharmacy department at the 1,200 bed Centre Hospitalier George Renon in Niort. She is also president of the European Association of Hospital Pharmacists […]
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Le Mans Hospital to use Agfa Orbis
One of France’s largest hospitals is to use Agfa Healthcare’s Orbis hospital and clinical information system to support the implementation of a full electronic patient record. The 1,600 bed Centre Hospitalier du Mans will use Orbis to make patient histories and data available to medical staff. It says this will allow it to improve its […]
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South of Tyne and Wear secures devices
NHS South of Tyne and Wear is adopting a layered approach to device security in the light of public concern over data breaches. The management structure, which covers Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland Teaching primary care trusts, is using FrontRange Solutions’ Device Wall to control the transfer of information to encrypted devices, alongside McAfee endpoint […]
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TPP moves on secondary care
TPP has launched a series of SystmOne modules covering acute hospitals, community hospitals, mental health, social services and out-of-hours care.
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Scrap big government IT: think tank
A right-wing think tank has called for more open standards and open source development in IT, arguing this could lead to savings of 50% on government IT expenditure. A paper published by the Centre for Policy Studies – It’s ours. Why we, not the government own our data – dismisses the government’s Transformational Government strategy […]
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