Cerner to offer full 18-week wait reporting by autumn
Evidence of the different approaches being pursued by Fujitsu the NHS IT local service provider (LSP) in the South of England and BT, the LSP for London, has emerged over how to obtain 18-week reporting from the Cerner Millennium software they are both offering. Cerner has exclusively told E-Health Insider that it will provide tools […]
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CMO flags up issues with computerised radiotherapy
Unsafe transfer of data and a lack of training in new computerised radiotherapy systems have been highlighted as potential hidden dangers by the chief medical officer (CMO), Sir Liam Donaldson. The issue is one of many featured in the CMO’s annual report ‘06 which also looks at hospital-based infections, organ transplants, intrapartum-related deaths and women […]
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Slow progress on Choose and Book
Uptake of Choose and Book has made slow progress since the beginning of this year, according to latest figures from Connecting for Health. Statistics for the week ending 16 July show that England’s electronic referral and booking system is being used for almost 40% of NHS referrals for first consultant outpatient appointments, two percentage points higher […]
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New telemedicine network in Bavaria
The Southern German state of Bavaria has announced the setup of a new major hospital telemedicine network that aims to improve the care for children with inborn cardiac defects. Within the next few months, nine regional hospitals in Bavaria and one in Austria will be connected electronically to the German Heart Centre in Munich, one […]
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GPSoC approved by the Treasury
The GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative has received Treasury approval and the primary care system suppliers are expected to sign agreements in principle by the end of this month. The agreements will mark the fruition of the GPSoC project first launched in March 2006 with the aim of delivering IT system choice for GPs […]
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Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out
Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management system into 16 hospitals in Northern Ireland. As part of the project Newgate have begun work on piloting their theatre electronic patient record (EPR) software, a system called Nexus, at the Belfast City Hospital. The […]
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iPlato deploy SMS to Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
Health text messaging specialists iPlato have agreed a deal to provide their patient care messaging service to 26 doctors’ surgeries in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham covering over 165,000 patients. The deal is iPlato’s largest deployment to date and will allow patients to interact with their surgery via mobile text messaging on a […]
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King’s College upgrades maternity system to EuroKing E3
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has upgraded its EuroKing maternity information system to the new E3 version of the software. Using the new E3 system, the trust will benefit from increased functionality including patient filtering, care pathways, risk management, electronic partogram, real-time data entry and document management. E3 is a new web-based version of the […]
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SCM gain Gematik accreditation
SCM Microsystems have announced that their eHealth 100 card terminal has received approval from Gematik to participate in phase one of field tests of the electronic health card programme in Germany. The company claim to be the first to receive approval from Gematik for its new card terminal, which was developed specifically for the German […]
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BT opts for Blue Coat to accelerate net content on N3
Secure content and application delivery specialists, Blue Coat Systems, have been selected to provide their proxy platform appliances to accelerate internet content to the N3 broadband network, maintained by BT. The company has been deploying new proxy platform appliances with BT for the last six to nine months to accelerate content to the millions of […]
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