NHS is major IT investor in public sector
The government spent more that £12billion on IT across the public sector in 2005/06, with the NHS and Connecting for Health amongst the biggest investors, according to figures published in the Transformational Government annual report for 2006. The figures show that the NHS in England spent £1.4billion, which did not include the £1.1bn spent by […]
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Telecare firm supports learning disability project
Telecare provider, Tunstall, has joined a new project called Through Assistive Technology to Employment (TATE), designed to increase employability for people with learning difficulties and support individual living. Tunstall were approached by the project team and agreed to help to develop and mainstream assistive technology devices and telecare systems to help meet the needs of […]
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Agfa delivers PACS to the private sector
Agfa Healthcare have announced two new contracts with private hospital chains to install their Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) software, IMPAX 6.2. The Belgian-based image-specialists have confirmed that they will be delivering the PACS system along with other medical imaging systems to both the Nuffield Hospitals group and the Classic Hospitals group. Nuffield Hospitals […]
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CSC to pay £600,000 compensation to NHS
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has agreed to pay some £600,000 in compensation to the NHS for the disruption caused by a massive failure at its data centre hosting NHS systems. The company is leading NHS IT modernization in the North West and West Midlands region of England, running new software systems from a single data […]
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Software could ease abuse reporting concerns
Widespread confusion amongst childcare professionals over who to inform when they have concerns about a vulnerable child is revealed in a survey conducted for collaborative software provider, Liquidlogic. The research was conducted by YouGov to review the effectiveness of the process for childcare professionals to identify and report early signs of children at risk. Liquidlogic […]
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College bows out of SNOMED development
The College of American Pathologists plans to relinquish control of its subsidiary, SNOMED International. SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms), is a coding system initially developed for pathologists but which has become more widely used for a variety of clinical coding tasks in more than 30 countries. England’s NHS has mandated the standard […]
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Kodak Health Group sold to Canadian buyer
Eastman Kodak announced today that it has agreed to sell the Kodak Health Group, which includes its medical imaging and healthcare software business, to Onex Healthcare Holdings in a deal worth up to $2.55 billion (£1.31 billion). Onex is one of Canada’s largest corporations; it describes itself as a diversified company with global operations in […]
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SHAs must plan local IT expenditure, guidance says
The Department of Health has published guidance to strategic health authorities on how to produce plans for local IT expenditure from 2007, as part of the move to local ownership of IT strategy. Plans must be produced and submitted by the end of March. The new guidance follows the publication last December of the NHS Operating […]
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SystmOne to be offered in NWWM
TPP’s SystmOne is now being offered as an integrated primary care solution to users in the NHS Connecting for Health North West and West Midlands (NWWM) cluster with local service provider, CSC. The move was announced by TPP, the Leeds-based supplier that already supplies SystmOne in the North-east and Eastern clusters formerly managed by Accenture and taken over […]
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Practices to test record transfers between systems
GP practices are likely to start testing of GP2GP record transfers between practices with different systems next month. Practices using INPS’s Vision system in Croydon have already installed version 1.1 of the GP2GP software and three EMIS practices in Croydon are in the process of receiving the update. Sean Riddell, managing director of EMIS, told […]
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