Rotherham and Barnsley ASCC procurement
Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust and Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust have become among the first in the country to complete a procurement using the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework contract. The two trusts have used ASCC to procure a shared laboratory information management system from CliniSys. In December 2007, the two trusts decided to establish […]
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Airwave on tube but few ambulances
The Airwave radio network has been rolled out on the London Underground and has been presented as a step forward for the troubled digital communications project.
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PCT providers told to look to GP systems
Newly separated primary care trust provider functions may need to build on existing GP computer systems, rather than wait for the National Programme for IT in the NHS to deliver new solutions. The NHS Alliance, whose membership is made up of PCTs and GPs, has also advised PCTs that they need to look beyond newly […]
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Dubai hospital gets Philips iSite PACS
Tawam Hospital in Dubai, part of the United Arad Emirates, has celebrated the ‘go-live’ of Philips’ iSite Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS). The solution integrates with the hospital’s Cerner HIS/RIS, creating a paperless, filmless workflow for patients and care providers. In addition to being installed at the main hospital site, the iSite PACS also […]
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Nortel files for bankruptcy protection
Nortel Networks, the Canadian telecoms equipment and networks specialist, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US to enable it to restructure. Nortel provides network and telecoms services to a number of NHS trusts in the UK, including: Liverpool Women’s hospital; Gwent Healthcare NHS Trust; and IP telephony to NHS trusts in Worcester and central […]
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SNOMED made free to low income countries
Free licenses for the use of SNOMED CT are to be made available to users in 47 low income countries, under an international initiative announced this week to spread use of health information standards. The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) said it will make the affiliate Licenses for the use of SNOMED CT […]
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EMIS offers online consultation service
GP system supplier EMIS is to begin the roll-out of an online consultation service it has developed with a GP practice in Cheshire. The Marple Cottage Surgery in Stockport has been working with EMIS to design the internet-based consultation service, which is based on a template questionnaire that patients are asked to complete. Now EMIS […]
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Barts virus caused ‘major internal incident’
Last November’s Mytob worm attack on the network of Barts and the London NHS Trust led to its ‘major internal incident’ plan being activated, with some ambulances redirected from A&E. The network failure was one of the most severe known to have occurred at an NHS hospital trust. To clean and restore the infected network, Barts […]
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Health security defeats RAF testers
A team of RAF security experts recently spent three days attempting to penetrate the wireless networking component of a managed service covering healthcare for British Forces in Germany – and failed. The secure networking is part of a managed service, PAS 2.0, built and hosted by Dataline Software for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation […]
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Global IT spend to fall in 2009
Weakening economies is set to push spending on information technology products and services down 3% after seven years of continuous growth, according to Forrester Research. The technology research firm said that recessions in the United States and other countries including Europe would be the main driver for slower technology spending. Recovery is not expected before […]
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