NHS budget to reach £110 billion by 2011
The NHS is to receive an increased budget from £90 billion this year to £110 billion by 2010-11, an increase of 4%, the Chancellor announced on Tuesday. The additional investment should help the service realise savings of around £8.2 billion by 2010–11 with new technology helping to contribute to this. A £100m innovation fund is […]
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Belgian hospital extends PACS to satellite locations
The Saint Luc Bouge Hospital in Belgium is extending its Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) and computed radiography (CR) systems from Carestream Health to serve three satellite locations in the Province of Namur for the first time. The 360-bed hospital has been using Carestream Health’s technology for seven years and wanted to extend the […]
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PCT commissioning data and IT suppliers named
Suppliers offering expertise in data analysis and IT solutions to support commissioning are included in the 14 organisations chosen by the Department of Health to provide PCTs with support. The DH last week announced the names of the suppliers it has selected for its Framework for procuring External Support for Commissioners (FESC). The framework is […]
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Microsoft launches HealthVault
Microsoft has launched a major personal health record initiative based on a secure website that allows users to store and share their health records using a free online service. The HealthVault portal allows users to store and share their medical histories, immunisation details, and data from monitoring devices such as glucose and cholestoral levels. A […]
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MTAS ‘rushed and poorly communicated’
The Department of Health has officially dropped the use of a national IT system in favour of locally-led recruitment for specialty training, following publication of the Tooke inquiry, which found the Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) was “rushed and poorly communicated.” Health minister, Ben Bradshaw, confirmed the move yesterday, which will see deaneries take control […]
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Stoke Mandeville taps into spinal software
Staff at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital will be able to keep track of all records electronically, after the trust signed with IMS Maxims to implement its specialist Spinal Cord Injuries software. The software has been developed with the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, where it has been live for over […]
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ScriptSwitch adds dressings and appliances
ScriptSwitch has added prescribing advice for GPs and nurses on issuing dressings and appliances to its prescribing decision-support software. The company says that dressing and appliances form a huge area for potential savings with 22m items issued last year, accounting for a net ingredient cost of £480m. The ability to make prescribing switches on dressings […]
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Choose and Book to end financial incentives
Financial incentives to encourage GPs to use Choose and Book will end in just over six months and patients will provide the impetus to further uptake of the e-booking scheme, according to the scheme’s medical director. Dr Stephen Miller, a GP in south London and national medical director for Choose and Book, told EHI Primary […]
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RFID track dementia patients in Luxembourg
Patients suffering from dementia in a Luxembourg hospital are now being tagged with RFID solutions from AeroScout to ensure they remain safe within hospital grounds and are in close range of nurses and caregivers. The hospital is using AeroScout’s T2 tags, which the company says has more than four years of battery life. These are […]
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dbMotion extend interoperability in Franche-Comté
The French region of Franche-Comté is to receive an expanded interoperability platform based on their Personal Medical File (DMP-fc) system, supplied by Israeli-firm dbMotion. dbMotion’s interoperability platform is a complete package that creates an integrated Virtual Patient Record, based on information contained in existing healthcare IT systems such as: electronic medical records, laboratory and imaging […]
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