EHTEL and EuroRec announce e-health symposium
The two main European e-health bodies, EHTEL and EuroRec, have announced they will hold a joint e-health planning and management symposium on 3 November, immediately ahead of the World of Health IT (WHIT) Conference. The event will be held the beginning of the WHIT Conference, 4-6 November, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The joint EHTEL and EuroRec […]
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Abergele Hospital gets BloodTrack OnDemand
Abergele Hospital has implemented a BloodTrack OnDemand system from Olympus so that staff can obtain blood from stocks held at the hospital rather than from its main blood bank, five miles away. The hospital, which is part of Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust, has seen immediate time and cost savings from the system, which enables […]
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ICW says LifeSensor can handle 10,000 users
Simulated benchmark tests carried out on InterComponentWare’s LifeSensor personal health record (PHR) have shown that the system can handle 10,000 concurrent virtual uers and 10m records. Germany’s ICW conducted the test over a ten-day period at the Hewlett Packard European Performance and Benchmark Centre, Stuttgart, Germany. According to ICW the performance test verified LifeSensor’s capacity, […]
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Patient Opinion mashes up NHS Choices
Patient Opinion has announced a “mash-up” with NHS Choices comments released onto a Cabinet Office website to promote new uses of government information. The independent website, which was founded by a Sheffield GP and is funded by subscriptions from trusts, regulators and others, has taken an NHS Choices data feed from a site run by […]
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Italian WiMAX ambulance project launched
A new ambulance communications system is using high speed, long distance WiMAX wireless connections to enable doctors to diagnose and begin treating critically ill patients before they reach hospital.
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Carestream rolls out French ‘pay-as-you-go’ PACS
Carestream Health, formerly Kodak Health, has announced that 37 privately owned French medical facilities are now using its Hosted Information Management (HIM) system, a pay-as-you-go system for remote archiving, storage and image sharing. HIM is one of a number of eHealth Managed Services from Carestream Health designed to archive, share and distribute medical data more […]
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Doctors complain about rating website
Doctors have complained to the Information Commissioner about the doctors’ rating website iwantgreatcare.org. The site www.iwantgreatcare.org was launched last month to enable patients to post comments about individual GPs and patients. However doctors have complained that the site is in breach of the Data Protection Act by including their names on its database and refusing […]
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Choose and Book fails to offer choice
Choose and Book failed to deliver its promise of choice of hospital, time and date of apppintment , a newly-published study shows.
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Mid-Yorkshire earns £80,000 from 0844 number
A hospital trust has revealed that it has made more than £80,000 from use of a 0844 telephone number over the last two years. The Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals Trust was forced to publish its income from the revenue-sharing telephone number following a Freedom of information request made by its local newspaper. The income has been condemned […]
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South may split between CSC and BT
No single prime contractor may be appointed to replace Fujitsu in the programme to upgrade NHS IT systems in the South of England. Instead, the region may be split between the two remaining prime contractors, BT and Computer Sciences Corporation. E-Health Insider has learned that some trusts covered by NHS South East Coast, one of […]
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