iSoft wins pathology contract extensions
iSoft have secured three-year contract extensions to four of their NHS contracts for support and maintenance of its laboratory information systems (LIS) in a deal worth £2.7m. Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, St Mary’s, Paddington, and Salford Royal Hospitals have all renewed their existing LIS contracts with the software provider. A spokesperson from iSoft told […]
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Choose and Book set to miss 90% referral target
The Department of Health’s target for 90% of referrals to be made through Choose and Book by next March looks almost certain to be missed, as latest figures reveal every strategic health authority is behind schedule. The statistics show that while the average percentage of bookings made through the system is now 27%, many primary […]
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Children’s services system wins national IT award
The West Lothian Community Health and Care Partnership (CHCP) has won the Local Government IT Excellence Award for its ‘C-Me’ project, designed to improve the delivery of services to children in the region. West Lothian CHCP beat off competition from Hertfordshire County Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council to scoop the prize for its […]
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Priory Group delivers e-learning over intranet
The Priory Group, providers of acute and secure mental healthcare, neuro-rehabilitation and specialist educational services, is to invest in e-learning for non-medical induction training for staff. The private healthcare group has also launched a new corporate intranet for its 5,000 staff in the UK, allowing them to undertake vital e-learning training they need for their day-to-day jobs. […]
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Intellect to launch telemedicine group
UK IT trade body Intellect has told E-Health Insider that it plans to start a dedicated telehealth group, following its participation in a US telemedicine conference. Representatives from the UK gave a presentation at the Boston Partners Telemedicine Annual Symposium, held at the Harvard Medical Centre on 18-19 September, promoting the British telehealth industry. The […]
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Urgent care IT improvement discussed
Seamless patching of voice and data information between urgent care providers and access to electronic patient records for everyone involved in urgent care are among the proposals in a Department of Health (DH) discussion document launched this week. The DH is seeking views on how urgent care services provided by a range of organisations such […]
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Mobile version of Clinical Evidence launched
The BMJ Publishing Group and US knowledge management systems developers, Unbound Medicine, have launched a new mobile resource which gives clinicians full clinical evidence notes from the BMJ Clinical Evidence database The device will help clinicians make evidence-based decisions at a patient’s bedside using a personal digital assistant (PDA), allowing them to quickly review the […]
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Milton Keynes’ Cerner implementation postponed
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust has had to postpone its implementation of a new Cerner Millennium patient administration system at just three days notice, citing the need for more time to fix software glitches. The trust does not yet have a new go-live date. The decision follows a similar last minute postponement of the project […]
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Danish GPs enjoy the best IT systems, says study
Denmark is the most advanced country in the world for clinical information technology systems in primary care, health informatics luminary Professor Denis Protti has stated. Danish GPs are used to sending one another clinical information over their secure network; over 90% of clinical communications are exchanged in this way. The study estimated only 41 GPs […]
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iSoft pulls back from the precipice
During the last few months iSoft has had a ‘near death experience’ the company’s chairman and acting chief executive, John Weston, has told EHI in an exclusive interview. Speaking as CSC prepares to replaced Accenture as local service provider in two NHS regions served by iSoft, Weston said that without CSC’s support the company might have failed, but the […]
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