iSoft become Sentillion’s first UK partner
iSoft has signed an agreement with US-based single sign-on specialist Sentillion, to become its first healthcare channel partner in Europe. Sentillion provides single sign-on (SSO), context management, and user provisioning technologies. As a result of the deal, iSoft will offer NHS trusts the opportunity to purchase new SSO technology with its software, enabling staff to […]
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Tunstall sell controlling interest to Charterhouse
Charterhouse Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has acquired a controlling interest in The Tunstall Group, in a transaction totalling £514m. The company’s existing management and selling shareholders will retain an interest valued at £66m on the same terms as Charterhouse. James Buckley, chief executive of Tunstall Group, said: “I am delighted to be working […]
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Elsevier acquires Windhover Information
Netherlands-based Elsevier, publisher of science, technical and health information, has acquired healthcare business intelligence company, Windhover Information. Windhover provides analysis and commentary on healthcare business strategy, industry deal making, marketplace trends and medical start-ups. It produces journals such as In Vivo and the RPM Report, a comprehensive database of healthcare industry transactions, and a series […]
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ESR set to complete roll-out
The NHS’s Electronic Staff Record is due to complete its national implementation this month, with over 600 NHS organisations across England and Wales live with the centralised national human resources system. When fully operational, the system will hold the details of almost 1.3m NHS staff members, replacing 28 core payroll systems, and 67 legacy human […]
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NHS boss says NPfIT ‘was not in right place’
NHS chief executive David Nicholson says the NHS IT programme had become too centralised to support the move to a health service based on plurality and far more locally-based decision making by clinicians and patients. Speaking at the World Healthcare Congress in Berlin on Monday Nicholson explained why the introuduction of the NHS National Programme for […]
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Siemens unveil new radiology solutions at ECR
Siemens Healthcare unveiled a new portal of IT software for radiologists and other hospital personnel who work with imaging staff, known as the syngo Portal, at this week’s European Congress of Radiologists. Siemens have developed three different strands of the systems, one for radiologists, one for referring physicians and one for senior executives. The solutions have […]
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Scottish NHS to receive £201m for e-health
Health boards across Scotland are to receive £201m to spend in areas such as e-health, primary care and primary and community care premises in the next financial year, the Scottish government has announced. The funds are part of a share of £525m worth of capital funding for the upgrade of equipment, IT systems, and facilities […]
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GPSoC contracts due for completion this month
Connecting for Health (CfH) is predicting that all GP practices using eligible systems under the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative will have been switched to GPSoC contracts by the end of this month. The IT agency says primary care system suppliers have issued 400 “call-off” agreements to PCTs which must be signed by both […]
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Olympus installs 100th lab automation software
Olympus’ OLA2500 lab automation system Olympus has installed its 100th laboratory automation software solution in Germany, helping laboratories to analyse test tube specimens faster. The Olympus OLA2500 lab automation system is designed to help increase productivity and efficiency in medium to high volume laboratories. The system automates labour-intensive tasks such as sample identification, decapping, sorting, […]
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Johnson steps up pressure on 0844 numbers
Health secretary Alan Johnson has stepped up the pressure on practices using 0844 telephone numbers as campaigners draw up a list of more than 800 surgeries with such numbers. The health secretary, who is MP for Hull and Hessle West, criticised the use of 0844 numbers in his local paper as the Department of Health’s […]
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