Scotland launches first interactive ‘info pods’
Patients living in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde region will be able to obtain health information around the clock, after the area became the first in Scotland, to introduce electronic ‘info pods’. The scheme is being piloted by the Scottish health board, with the new innovative patient information systems open for business at two Glasgow […]
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Wythenshawe uses barcodes to access records
Wythenshawe Hospital, part of the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, has deployed new bar code scanners from Datalogic to digitally track and call up paper patient records from their new iPM patient administration system (PAS). Staff at the hospital can now scan bar codes on paper patient record, which then automatically bring […]
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CSC to buy First Consulting Group
Computer Sciences Corporation has agreed to acquire First Consulting Group, an IT services company that provides services and products to health organisations. CSC says that the acquisition of First Consulting Group (FCG) will increases CSC’s US domestic and offshore healthcare expertise and service delivery capabilities. The all cash transaction was for approximately £174m ($365m). The […]
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Singapore visits London to see RiO
The benefits to patients of new IT systems in London, delivered under the NHS IT programme, has been attracting international interest in London, which was recently visited by the Singapore Ministry of Health. The Singapore Ministry of Health officials saw London’s first step on the journey towards the national electronic shared health care record system, […]
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Carestream boosts European profile
Carestream Health is expanding its European presence with three new European ‘Centre of Excellence’ sites, adding to the six existing healthcare settings already awarded the title. The sites will host visits for other healthcare professionals who want to see products in action and aid research and design on behalf of Carestream Health to help develop […]
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Info sharing for emergencies under test
Software that will allow the police and emergency services to share and update incident information more effectively is being developed by the University of Hertfordshire and Extent Software. The software, named Collaborator, will attempt to offer instant cross-agency alerts regardless of individual IT systems, allowing all services at the scene of an incident to share information […]
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NHS 24 signs new deal with Clinical Solutions
NHS 24 has extended its contract with Clinical Solutions for its telephony-based out-of-hours decision support system for the next three years. The extended contract involves an upgrade of the solution to encompass additional functionality from the system which was originally deployed in 2002 when the Scottish service was launched. The decision to extend the contract […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 09.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 9 November, featuring supplier news, events, product launches, appointments and acquisitions. Supplier News Humber Mental Health streamlines IT services Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has selected Supportworks ITSM from Hornbill Systems for use by its centralised service desk. The support desk has 18 staff […]
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Winners announced in BT e-Health Insider Awards
Awards for some of the UK?s most outstanding health IT projects and people were announced at the gala BT e-Health Awards ceremony in London last night.
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Austrian hospital group migrates to Orbis
The Salzburger Landeskliniken (SALK) hospital group, Austria, has implemented its new Agfa HealthCare Orbis health information system as part of its electronic patient record (EPR) project. The group recently switched to the Agfa HealthCare Orbis and Impax picture archiving and communications (PACS) solution to enable patient data to be available at all times and allow […]
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