Bumper Christmas for NHS Direct
NHS Direct has had its busiest ever Christmas, with a record number of people using both the telephone and online health advice service over a three-day period. While calls to NHS Direct were up by 10% on last year, the number of visits to the NHS Direct Online website leapt by almost a third. Health enquiries […]
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Telephone hearing test launched to reduce stigma
The RNID have launched an automated telephone hearing test service designed to encourage people who think they are losing their hearing to visit their GPs. The new test is part of the RNID’s new campaign, ‘Breaking The Sound Barrier’, aimed at combating stigma about deafness and encouraging more people to visit their doctor about their […]
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Scottish NHS staff miss PCs for Christmas
NHS staff in Lothian has been left without a new home computer for Christmas bought through the Home Computing Initiative after BT suffered supply problems caused by over-subscription to the scheme in Scotland. According to The Scotsman, around 3000 NHS workers across the whole of Scotland had not received their new PCs for Christmas, and some have […]
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CliniSys acquires Orion Imaging
Clinical and laboratory systems specialists, CliniSys has acquired diabetic retinopathy screening solution provider, Orion Imaging. Diabetic retinopathy is the single largest cause of blindness in the UK and is a problem in all countries where ageing populations and increasing obesity rates are leading to greater numbers of people living with diabetes. Digital retinopathy cameras provide […]
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AxSys wins major Scottish system contract
AxSys Technologies has been named as the successful bidder in NHSScotland’s national generic clinical system (GCS) procurement. The Clydebank-based company will deliver a national licence for its product, Excelicare, and provide supporting services as part of the GCS contract. The overall aim is to provide NHSScotland with the tools to create a diverse set of local clinical […]
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Care of the elderly system launched by IMS
A new system from IMS Maxims that supports the wide range of professionals caring for older people has gone live in the mid-western region of Ireland. The Maxims Care of the Elderly (CoE) Integrated Care Records brings together information for nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, doctors and other members of the care team. […]
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Cerner and Fujitsu deliver first South implementation
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first hospital in the South of England to go live with an electronic patient records system from Cerner, implemented by Fujitsu, under the NHS National Programme for IT. The initial implementation comes almost two years after Fujitsu was first awarded an £896 million local service provider (LSP) […]
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Graphnet says 45 PCTs now using Xtract
Graphnet Health has announced that 45 primary care trusts in England are in the process of implementing its data extraction software, Xtract. The software is designed to enable clinical data from GP systems to be accurately and securely extracted and then, subject to local data sharing agreements, used by other health professionals within a local […]
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InterSystems chosen for Dutch e-health programme
InterSystems Corporation has been selected by CSC Computer Sciences BV to provide its Ensemble integration platform for a national healthcare integration project in the Netherlands. The new initiative, called the National Switching Point, will provide the foundation for the national rollout of an electronic patient record (EPR) that is being developed by the Dutch National […]
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GP contract IM&T incentives announced
GPs are to be offered incentives worth up to £70m in total across England to embrace NHS information and management technology changes. There will also be extra money to implement choice and booking. The proposed changes to the national GPs’ contract, which are due to take effect from 1 April 2006, were published today. The investment […]
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