iSoft shareholders approve IBA takeover
iSoft shareholders have voted to approve the £142m takeover offer from Australia’s IBA Health for the British software company at the centre of the NHS IT upgrade programme. Shareholders overwhelmingly approved the resolution to approve the recommended offer for iSoft, the wholly-owned subsidiary of IBA, IBA UK, at an Extraordinary General Meeting on Friday, 6 […]
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Scottish hospital to use robots to move goods
Robots transporting hospital goods and equipment will be used for the first time in a new hospital being built at Larbert in Stirlingshire, under a £300m private finance initiative. The robots are being developed by a consortium involved in the new build and will run along separate corridors and use magnetic strips or infra red […]
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Affiniti wins £67.6m ICT services PFI deal for North Staffs
Communications integrator Affiniti has been awarded a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract worth £67.6m over 37 years to manage, design and implement all current and future ICT services for two new hospitals in North Staffordshire The company will take over responsibility for managing voice and data systems for the University Hospital of North Staffordshire and […]
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Eizo acquires Siemens’s medical monitor business
Eizo Nanao Corporation, a global manufacturer of high-end visual display products, has announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Siemens’s medical monitor business from the Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) Group. Eizo, who are based in Hakusan, Japan, and are represented in more than 50 countries, will take on 130 employees […]
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Nottingham says PACS has already saved £1m
The deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems can save trusts over £1m each year, an NHS IT director has claimed. Andrew Fearn, director of ICT services at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust says that his trust has made the savings, calculated before deductions on the cost of PACS, based on reductions in the costs […]
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Southern SHAs assess alternatives for mental health IT
Strategic health authorities in the South of England are evaluating alternative software options to the version of Cerner Millennium being offered by Fujitsu under the NHS IT Programme (NPfIT). Fujitsu, the local service provider for the South, has told E-Health Insider, that it is working with SHAs and trusts to provide them with systems that best […]
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Decision support could improve bowel cancer diagnosis
Computerised decision support systems could help to improve the process of identifying patients at risk of bowel cancer, researchers argue. They say the traditional system is producing consistently poor results. GPs currently have to weigh up the significance of symptoms such as rectal bleeding, abdominal pain and changes in bowel habit which may be due […]
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CSW acquires software of Ireland’s H2HCare
CSW Group Ltd have acquired the software assets of H2HCare, an Irish health IT company, specialising in healthcare – providing web-based billing, contracting and financial management capabilities to support effective patient care for public and private healthcare organisations. H2HCare products will be incorporated into CSW’s Case Notes product suite, extending it from an Electronic Health […]
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System C buys private healthcare specialist IQ Systems
System C Healthcare has acquired private sector health IT specialists IQ Systems Services in a deal worth approximately £2m, it was announced today. IQ is a leading supplier of patient management and clinical software solutions for private treatment centres and hospitals. The company’s most popular product is IQUtopia, a purpose-built patient management, healthcare scheduling and clinical […]
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Oxfordshire council uses web-based bed booking
Oxfordshire County Council have started using a new online care bed vacancy database and booking system, using technology from OLM group, an independent supplier of information solutions for children’s and adult services. The new care home bed vacancy database will be accessible by all the council’s care homes, and staff will be able to update […]
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