Liverpool Women’s moves to single sign-on
All members of staff at Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust will soon be able to use their hospital entry cards as single sign-on smartcards to all hospital IT applications. Working with identity and access management specialists, Imprivata, the trust wanted to stop their IT helpdesk being called up on a daily basis to reset passwords […]
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Accenture hits PACS milestone
Accenture has completed its deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems supplied by Agfa across the North East and East of England strategic health authorities. Accenture ceased being the former local service provider to the North-east and Eastern cluster in January of this year, being replaced by Computer Sciences Corporation. The firm retained responsibility for delivery […]
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Shared services discussed in Northen Ireland
Northern Ireland’s health department has launched a consultation on setting up a shared services organisation for health and social care. The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) consultation document states that up to 10% of IT staff posts and 5% of information management staff posts could be lost if the province was […]
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Lord Darzi pledges IT review
A review of England’s NHS IT modernisation programme to ensure it “delivers real clinical benefits” is promised in health minister Lord Darzi’s interim report on the health service published yesterday. Lord Darzi, a practising surgeon who joined the Department of Health’s(DH) ministerial team in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s new government, says he will be considering […]
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South edges towards ‘best of breed’ approach
The re-negotiation of the NHS IT Programme contract between Fujitsu and the NHS in the South of England appears to be heading towards a best of breed approach.
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Systema signs hospital IT-deal in Upper Austria
Austrian health IT vendor, Systema Human Information Systems, is to install information systems at eleven hospitals in Upper Austria.
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iSoft shareholders approve IBA takeover
Shareholders of NHS software supplier iSoft have today agreed the sale of the company to Australian firm IBA. The final hurdle to the completion of the sale will come on 29 October when a final court hearing will pave the way for iSoft shares to be de-listed the next day. If the scheme is approved […]
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Central Manchester upgrade cancer care system
Cancer care staff at the Central Manchester and Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust will be able to find all cancer care notes on one system following the trust’s upgrade of its IMS Maxims clinicals system. The trust had been using an older version of the system, which was not interoperable, meaning each cancer specialty […]
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Data centre failure left practices without SystmOne
A fault at a BT-run data centre left GP practices using TPP’s SystmOne experiencing performance problems with their system for three hours last month. EHI Primary Care understands that the failure on September 18 affected all TPP’s SystmOne users from early morning until about 11am. The problem is the second time in just over a […]
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Austria named best healthcare system in the EU
Austria has the best healthcare service in the European Union, a survey by watchdog Health Consumer Powerhouse has found. The Euro Health Consumer Index is an annual ranking of national European healthcare systems across five areas that are key to the consumer: patients’ rights and information, waiting times for common treatments, care outcomes, the generosity […]
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