Ascribe seeks AIM listing
Medicines management software specialist, Ascribe is poised to seek a listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and raise £5.5m to develop the company. Ascribe, which was established in 1989, expects to have a stock market capitalisation of about £20m. Managing director, Stephen Critchlow, a former hospital pharmacist, confirmed to E-Health Insider that the funds raised by […]
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Paediatrics software given funding injection
Isabel Healthcare has received a £1.7m funding boost to further develop its paediatric decision support software for the US market and to finalise an adult version of the software. Isabel, a diagnostic tool for paediatricians, uses pattern recognition to give alternative and likely diagnoses given lists of symptoms. It works with a series of medical […]
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Menopause website wins information award
A website written by clinicians to help women through the menopause has come first prize in the Patient Information Website category in the BMA Medical Book Competition Awards 2004. Menopause Matters (www.menopausematters.co.uk) was set up by Dr Heather Currie, associate specialist gynaecologist and obstetrician, at the Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary, and run by her […]
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Accenture names Phoenix as primary care supplier
Accenture has announced that it has signed agreements with Microsoft, Liquidlogic and The Phoenix Partnership to provide technology solutions for the North-east and Eastern regions of English NHS, under the National Programme for IT. Accenture is the local service provider for the North-east and Eastern regions, two of the five English NHS regions covered by […]
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IT key to patient care, says NeLH director
The founding director of the National Electronic Library for Health (NeLH), Dr Muir Gray, has said that the National Programme for IT is essential for making information available where it is needed and that “knowledge is the enemy of disease". “The care records service will be central,” Dr Gray told E-Health Insider. “It’s essentially completely […]
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Halligan will not take up top Irish health job
Deputy chief medical officer, Professor Aidan Halligan, who until recently held the post of joint senior responsible officer (SRO) for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), will no longer take up his position as chief executive designate of the Irish Health Services Executive (HSE). E-Health Insider had learned that Professor Halligan made the decision to […]
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RFID tags on medication introduced in US
US regulators the Food and Drug Administration have released guidance for the attachment of RFID tags to drug packaging in order to ensure “that the drugs available in the United States are among the safest in the world." “Radio Frequency Identification technology is an innovative response to the challenge of counterfeit drugs," said Health and […]
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Cerner to buy private physician system supplier
Kansas-based Cerner Corp. has today announced that it has signed an agreement to buy the Medical Division of VitalWorks Inc, a leader in the US private physician office information technology market. The $100m deal will further expand Cerner’s presence in the physician practice market, a market expected to rapidly grow as the US federal government […]
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Evening classes for electronic records?
Adult education courses to explain what the new electronic patient care record does and how it can be used in planning personal health choices are advocated in the government’s new white paper on public health. Buried beneath the headlines about smoking bans and combating obesity, the white paper, Choosing Health, says that as part of the drive […]
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New QOF software to hide data, but not for all GPs
NPfIT has developed software that automatically anonymises GP electronic patient records for audit by primary care organisations under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), in response to concerns over confidentiality from the BMA – but it will not work with all practices. The program, QOF Assessor Toolkit, will connect with the majority of GP software, […]
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