Fraunhofer study backs German smartcard plans
Germany’s health smartcard project uses up-to-date technology and is suitable to guarantee both data security and accessibility. This is the key message of a new study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). The Fraunhofer scientists did their analysis for the working group 7 of the National IT Summit, a joint effort […]
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TPP to add Numed Capture to SystmOne
Primary care system supplier TPP has announced plans to integrate an image capture device into its software SystmOne. TPP and Numed, suppliers of diagnostic and patient monitoring devices, integrated Numed’s Biolog 3000i ECG device into SystmOne earlier this year and now plans to add Numed Capture. Numed Capture is a specially designed auto-focus camera with […]
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German universities to get access to BMJ
The British Medical Journal Group has signed a three year nationwide licensing agreement with the Bavarian State Library on behalf of the German research foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG,) to provide BMJ Journals’ content to universities and other publicly financed research institutions across Germany. The deal will mean that 124 universities, medical schools, research institutes and […]
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Welsh hospitals deploy Cisco wireless
Clinicians at the Princess of Wales Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital, part of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABM) University NHS Trust in South Wales, are now able to access information about their patients’ bedsides using a new Cisco wireless Local Area Network (LAN). Using the wireless LAN, clinicians can now access information about their […]
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EMIS enables digital TV repeat prescriptions
Patients at around 1,400 surgeries using EMIS Access software across England will soon be able to request repeat prescriptions using digital TV, following an extension of the firm’s partnership with DigiTV. The primary care IT supplier has extended its digital TV service so that as well as being able to book GP surgery appointments via […]
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CSC and Fujitsu NHS contract resets continue
Negotiations to reset the local service provider contracts in the North, Midlands and East of England, plus the South of England have still not been finalised. E-Health Insider learned this week that a 6 May deadline for the completion of the contract with LSP Computer Sciences Corporation has passed unmet. Both Connecting for Health and […]
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Google Health launched
Internet search giant Google yesterday unveiled Google Health, its online personal health record service.
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NHS says Lorenzo won’t be complete until 2016
North West Strategic Health Authority says it does not expect full installation of the strategic Lorenzo electronic patient record software until 2016, a year later the date set out in last week’s National Audit Office report. A board paper from the SHA says a new contract between CfH/NHS and local service provider (LSP) CSC is […]
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BT boss to take over at King’s College
Tim Smart the current chief executive of BT Global Services UK, the BT division responsible for over £3 billion of NHS IT contracts, is to take over as head of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. BT is the local service provider to London, responsible for delivering IT upgrades to NHS organisations across the capital […]
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ClinPhone opens new Paris office
British pharmaceutical technology specialist, ClinPhone, has opened a new office in Paris, in order to reach out to its growing French client base. ClinPhone already works with a number of large pharmaceutical clients across France and the new office is intended to provide both its current and new customers with a local point of contact. […]
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