Capula Acquires Elan Technologies
Elan Technologies, the UK provider of healthcare information systems, has been acquired by Capula Ltd, a provider of IT solutions to the energy, healthcare, utilities, industrial and public sector markets. The deal comes at a critical time in NHS IT with the government widely expected to commit significant new investment into computerising the health service. […]
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Growing Interest in EPR Systems Around Europe
Increasing interest in electronic patient record systems is found in a new study of European healthcare IT vendors by consultants, Frost & Sullivan. The attraction lies in the ease with which EPR systems can be devised using existing technologies, but the report’s author, Chris Cherrington, points to a significant problem. "While hospitals and healthcare standards […]
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New Director General of NHS IT Appointed
The NHS’s first ever director general of information is Richard Granger who joins the service from Deloitte Consulting. Mr Granger comes to healthcare with extensive experience of public sector IT at Deloitte where his clients have included Transport for London and the former Departments for Education and Employment and Social Security. In his new high-profile […]
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Bureaucracy Top Problem For Public Sector Leavers
The health service’s continuing addiction to paperwork has been revealed as a major deciding factor for staff who quit. Bureaucracy, paperwork and targets were the top problems identified by public sector leavers, including many from the NHS, interviewed in a survey by the Audit Commission, Recruitment and Retention: a public service workforce for the 21st […]
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Americans Prefer E-Prescribing
Most Americans prefer an electronic prescribing system that lets doctors send prescriptions directly to pharmacies, says a new survey. The survey found that 82 percent of Americans prefer this kind of e-prescribing because it offers a number of benefits, including less waiting time at the pharmacy, faster prescription renewals, and more time for people to […]
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Manitex and B-Plan Join Forces in Irish Health
Health IT suppliers, Manitex and B-Plan information Systems have announced a partnership for the Irish health market. Both companies have existing customers in Ireland including the Mater Hospital, the Eastern Regional Health Authority, the Royal Hospitals Trust (Belfast) and the Virus Reference Laboratory at University College, Dublin. Steve Gillman, managing director of Manitex said, “The […]
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Royal Surrey Selects Oasis for Physio
Royal Surrey Hospitals has awarded Elan Technologies a contract to develop a dedicated information module for the physiotherapy department to integrate it into the hospital electronic patient record system. The hospital has been using an EPR system supplied by Oasis since 1996. Terms of the deal for the new module were not disclosed. The physiotherapy […]
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NHS 24 Roll-Out Reaches Aberdeen
Malcolm Chisholm, Scotland’s health minister, has confirmed that the roll-out of the NHS 24 , the Scottish version of the English flagship patient helpline NHS Direct, will proceed across Scotland – despite reported teething problems with the pilot project in the North-east. Mr Chisholm made the comments at the launch of the second NHS 24 […]
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Pharmaceuticals Now Available through GHX
In addition to medical products, St Johannes-Gesellschaft Hospital in Dortmund has now started trading pharmaceuticals electronically through Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX). GHX says that it now offers an e-trading system that covers both medical devices and pharmaceuticals – the two key product groups at the centre of the healthcare supply chain. After a technical implementation […]
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MyDocOnline Adds Evidence-Based Guidelines
MyDocOnline a US e-health subsidiary of Pharma firm Aventis; is to incorporate an evidence-based care management application EBMpact, into its suite of tools for online communication between patients and their physicians. EBMpact’s guidelines are designed to minimise costly medical practice variation and increase patient compliance, to reduce unnecessary costs and maximise patient health outcomes. The […]
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