Malta’s Mater Dei Hospital to get iSoft
Isoft has been appointed as sub-contractor to Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (ACS) to provide and support laboratory information systems at Malta’s flagship 850-bed Mater Dei Hospital, the largest hospital on the island. Malta Information Technology and Training Services (MITTS) has also extended its 12-year relationship with iSoft for an upgrade of the current patient administration […]
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Southampton links walk-in centres
Southampton City Primary Care Trust has connected its three walk-in centres to a new community-wide network of electronic patient records, provided by Clinical Solutions. The new system will help the three walk-in centres operate as a single virtual organisation. Patients can be seen as soon as possible in any of the three centres as staff […]
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Swansea planning remedies for ESR
Some staff at the Swansea NHS Trust have had payments affected by problems with the Electronic Staff Record, eleven months after it was installed at the trust. The trust says it is experiencing "teething problems" with the new system. According to a report in the Swansea Evening Post nearly 100 health workers in Swansea have […]
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Granger’s successor remains a mystery
Richard Granger’s successor as chief executive of Connecting for Health and director general of IT at the Department of Health is still unknown, twelve weeks after he announced his resignation in transition from the post. Enquiries from E-Health Insider this week have been unable to clarify when Granger will officially leave CfH, and more intriguingly […]
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Nurses go wireless in Essen
The nursing service at Essen University Hospital is to begin an ambitious wireless health IT project later in September that will result in it becoming one of the first fully wireless hospitals in Germany. The wireless system will be introduced to enable nurses and doctors at the hospital to use tablet PCs running electronic nursing […]
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Major overhaul for Addenbrooke’s theatre system
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is upgrade its TheatreMan theatre management system to improve both the day-to-day information available to clinicians and longer term planning. The flagship Cambridge teaching hospital was previously using a dated UNIX version of TheatreMan, which was not in line with other IT developments, and will now to move to the Windows version of the system. […]
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Target met for 60,000 new telecare users
Local authorities have achieved their target of enabling more than 60,000 new users to benefit from telecare in the last financial year using the first part of the two year Preventative Technology (PT) grant. Performance information on telecare from England’s 150 social care authorities compiled by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) show that […]
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Wait for early SCR results before rollout, says BMA
The British Medical Association (BMA) has told the Department of Health (DH) that it wants to see no further rollout of the Summary Care Record beyond the early adopter sites until the independent evaluation has been completed and ways forward agreed. It says it will advise doctors outside the early adopter primary care trusts (PCTs) […]
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International spotlight on Wales’ health IT
Experts from around the world are to gather in Cardiff later this month for a conference focused on the development of health and information technology in Wales. The invitation-only conference, IAG 2007 on 20-21 September will be hosted by Informing Healthcare, the Welsh Assembly Government’s programme to improve patient care with the better use of information technology. […]
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Cegedim Rx pharmacy users get Spinal Tap
Integration specialist Quicksilva has announced that Cegedim Rx has installed its Spinal Tap software to enable pharmacies to communicate with the NHS Spine for the Electronic Prescriptions Service (EPS) project. Quicksilva says Spinal Tap will be hosted centrally and manage all upgrades which it says will reduce the amount of time and resources pharmacies spend […]
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