Kent rolls out System C’s IGFlow
System C has started to roll out a new information governance product across Kent, with six environments “ready to go.” The new product, named IGFlow, is designed to help healthcare organisations to track information flows around their own organisations and to other organisations, including emails, letters, faxes, CDs, X-rays and other media. It includes an […]
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IBM unveils analytics solutions centre
IBM has announced that it is to open an analytics solution centre in Berlin to serve healthcare organisations, the public sector and universities. The company says the centre will help to give clients faster access to high quality data and to help them analyse and interpret it, leading to improved decision-making. It will also focus […]
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Community quality indicators launched
The Department of Health has launched more than 70 proposed quality indicators for community services alongside six guides to transforming community services. The guides include advice on how IT can be harnessed to improve patient care, particularly through the sharing of information. On end of life care, the examples of actions with the greatest potential […]
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Brown plans for ‘entitlements’
Prime Minister Gordon Brown has outlined plans to give public service users new "entitlements", while promising a tougher NHS performance management regime and massive efficiency savings. Building Britain’s Future says the NHS will be reformed by moving from a system primarily based on targets and central direction to one in which individuals have "enforceable" entitlements over the service […]
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Orange Austria targets mobile e-health
Orange Austria and charity Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Österreich (Workers Samaritan Federation Austria) have begun a trial to pilot a mobile e-health solution for monitoring blood sugar levels and blood pressure. Orange Austria and Alcatel-Lucent have equipped the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund with the Alcatel-Lucent TeleHealth Manager solution, an off the shelf e-health platform. The TeleHealth Manager is a tele-monitoring solution that […]
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SOCITM calls for IT stimulus
A leading consortium has called for a £1 billion IT stimulus package from central government to overhaul IT services in local government, health and education in order to cut carbon emissions and create savings. Steve Palmer, president of SOCITM, told E-Health Insider: “We are not asking for a grant, we want to borrow the money […]
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National prison contract for TPP
The Department of Health has announced that TPP’s SystmOne Prison has been selected as the first national clinical IT system for prisons. The decision, previewed in EHI Primary Care last month, means primary care trusts now have until the end of December 2010 to deploy the system across all prisons in England. The DH said […]
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Intel and GE develop Health House
Researchers from Intel and GE Healthcare are working to develop a ‘Health House’ that will track a person’s everyday habits, check vital signs and predict whether they are at risk of a fall. The system will use sensors to track a person’s behaviour and send alerts when unexpected reactions or data are picked up. The […]
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McKesson sees shared services growth
McKesson has announced a 200% growth in its Shared Services over the past 12 months. The Healthcare and IT solutions and services provider has won ten out of 11 contracts in open tender and is now providing HR and payroll services to more than 107,000 staff across the NHS. Almost 40 trusts are now using […]
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Plain on self-assessment Odyssey
Clinical decision support specialist Plain Healthcare is piloting a system that enables patients to self-assess their symptoms online before seeing a GP. Odyssey SelfAssess is based on the same software as the company’s Odyssey TeleAssess triaging system, which is already widely used by clinicians in out-of-hours services. The SelfAssess software is written in lay language and […]
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