Nurses in the dark on IT developments, survey reveals
UK nurses are generally positive about NHS IT developments, but over three quarters have received little or no information about them, a survey conducted by Nursix for the Royal College of Nursing reveals. Alison Kitson, executive director nursing, at the RCN, said: "Clearly nurses can see huge improvements in patient care with the introduction of […]
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Barts and The London chooses Sysmed for pathology
Barts and The London NHS Trust, has selected Sysmed Solutions’ WinPath pathology laboratory information management system (LIMS) to support the modernisation of its pathology services. The new LIMS system supplied will initially link four pathology laboratories, within the Trust and at Newham and Homerton NHS hospitals. Barts and the London currently processes over two million […]
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Hextall says details on PACS and legacy imminent
The chief operating officer for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has promised that details of the national programme’s approach to both legacy systems and the procurement of picture archiving and storage systems (PACS) will be published in the next few weeks. In an exclusive interview with E-Health Insider Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer for […]
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Budget or business class? Health IT choices examined
Budget or business class? That’s the kind of question governments face as they decide what kind of investment to make in healthcare IT – and the bosses at IBM are keen to show that they are supporting all kinds of solutions. At a recent briefing on Big Blue’s strategic vision for healthcare, Neil de Crescenzo, […]
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Kodak implements PACS at Chesterfield in 11 weeks
Kodak Health Imaging has announced that it has successfully installed an end-to-end digital image management solution, comprising capture, print, distribution, storage and service solutions in just 11 weeks. In February Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust awarded Kodak a contract to install an integrated image and information management solution at Chesterfield Royal Hospital […]
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IDX finalises subcontractor agreement with BT for London
IDX Systems Corporation has announced that it had finalised its subcontract agreement with BT to provide clinical information technology systems and services to BT in its role as the London local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT. BT was awarded a £996 million, 10-year contract by the NHS on 8 December, 2003 […]
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European census looks at 900 hospitals’ IT
A major census of 900 European hospitals’ progress in healthcare IT is underway looking at a range of key factors in e-health development. The European Hospital Census is being carried out by HBS Consulting on behalf of the Health Information Network Europe (HINE) , a service run by Deloitte working with healthcare IT specialists, Silicon Bridge Research. […]
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Capio implements Stalis’ Assure.net
Independent healthcare provider Capio Healthcare UK has announced that it has successfully implemented a risk information management system (RIMS) in all of its acute hospitals. Capio has implemented a RIMS system based on the Assure.net product supplied by Stalis at each of its 22 acute hospitals in the UK. The new RIMS system will enable […]
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Big Brother alive and well at Heathcare Computing
E-Health Insider comment from Jon Hoeksma “I just had a call from the National Programme [for IT] on what I could say. I looked at my notes and realised I couldn’t say anything.” This was the quote from the Healthcare Computing 2004 conference that perhaps best summed up the national programme’s very strange approach to […]
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Granger promises to make PACS ‘deployable’
A promise to deliver at least 50% cuts in the pricing of Picture Archiving and Storage Systems (PACS) and make it a “deployable technology” came from NHS IT Director General Richard Granger in his address to Healthcare Computing 2004. Local Service Providers (LSPs) are due to submit their latest proposals on how they would deliver Picture […]
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