Nuance buys Philips Speech Recognition Systems
Philips has sold its Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) to US-based Nuance Communications for €66m ($96.1m).
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Lancashire takes charge of USB ports
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has taken control of its USB ports using a data protection solution from Lumension Security. The trust, which employs 3,500 staff and provides mental health and substance misuse services across Lancashire, held a USB stick amnesty and replaced “rogue” devices with officially sanctioned memory sticks. It then implemented the Sanctuary […]
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iSoft wins award for European labs strategy
ISoft Germany has been named a strategic leader in the European Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) market by analysts Frost & Sullivan.
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Virtualisation at Epsom and St Helier
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is using virtualisation for its print servers and infrastructure management, and has plans to extend virtualisation to its web and application servers. At a Hewlett Packard virtualisation round table this week, Malcolm Flier, the trust’s head of support services, said the main drivers for the move had […]
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Community nurses get mobile access to iPM
Community nurses at Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust have gone live with 3G technology that allows them to access its iPM system and record patient activity. A total of 60 nurses working for the community out-of-hours service in Wolverhampton have been given 3G enabled-laptops to enable remote access to the system provided by its local service provider. […]
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Northumbria awards Olympus pathology contract
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Olympus UK a seven-year managed service contract for core pathology. Olympus has been looking after the systems at Northumbria’s biochemistry lab for the past seven years and the trust says the “quality and accuracy” of its systems played a “significant role” in its decision to offer the company […]
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European Commission consults on Web 3.0
The European Commission has launched a consultation on how to make sure Europe leads on the next generation of the internet. In its new consultation document the Commission outlined the main steps required to respond to the next wave of the information revolution, resulting from trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to online […]
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Trust ditches 0844 number
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has ditched a recently introduced 0844 number following complaints that it could leave vulnerable patients out of pocket. The trust introduced the 0844 number as a single contact for Glenfield, Leicester General and the Royal Infirmary hospitals, early in September. It opted not to make revenue from the number; […]
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Centre Hospitalier installs MediVista
Click to enlarge France’s Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy has installed an advanced bedside communications and entertainment system supplied by Ireland-based Lincor Solutions. The MediVista system enables both patient bedside entertainment and provides authorised hospital staff with access to clinical data. The new system has been implemented across all 620 beds at Centre Hospitalier […]
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Nicholson highlights GP data risks
The Information Commissioner has identified GPs as a data security risk, according to David Nicholson, chief executive of the NHS. Nicholson has written to NHS chief executives, asking them to check that their organisations are encrypting removable data and re-emphasising that information risk management should be high on their agendas. In the letter, Nicholson also […]
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