Avia acquires Plain Healthcare
Avia Health Informatics has announced the acquisition of clinical decision support specialists Plain Healthcare. Avia Health informatics has been set up to invest in health technology companies. It said the investment in Plain Healthcare would allow it to develop its products further and faster. The Plain Software Company was admitted to trading on AIM last […]
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IT spend under pressure, survey confirms
Local and central IM&T spend as a percentage of NHS revenue will decrease next year for the first time in seven years, according to the NHS IM&T Investment Survey. The survey, published by NHS Connecting for Health, shows planned local spend in 2009-10 will decrease by 0.09% as a percentage of NHS revenue in comparison with actual […]
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GE wins Finnish PACS contract
The Helsinki Medical Imaging Centre has signed a contract with GE Healthcare to implement a multi-site Picture Archiving and Communications System across the hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa. The new system, Centricity PACS, will help to connect all imaging units throughout the district through a secure, encrypted digital portal. It will provide integrated ultrasound, […]
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Discharge summary target ‘to be missed’
The vast majority of NHS hospitals look set to miss the government’s target for delivering discharge summaries to GP practices within 24 hours from next April.
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Scottish Ambulance Service laptop stolen
The Scottish Ambulance Service has confirmed that a laptop containing more than 600 patient medical records has been stolen from its headquarters. The laptop, which was stolen fromMorningside, Edinburgh, contained records that detailed patients’ names, addresses and details of treatment. It was believed to have been stolen between 4:15pm on 17 November and 7:30am the […]
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£130m for telecare and home help
The government has pledged to invest £130m in initiatives such as telecare and home adaptations as part of its free personal care measures outlined in the Queen’s Speech.
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Ipswich chooses Kainos for casenotes
Kainos has signed a £1m contract with Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust to convert its paper casenotes into electronic format using its electronic document records management solution (EDRM). The contract which includes licences for the core software Meridio EDRM and autonomy scanning and services for the development and implementation of the system, will see trust staff […]
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Report raises cloud computing doubts
A new report by the European Network and Information Security Agency around cloud computing has highlighted the benefits of the technology but warned against potential security issues. The report, which partly bases its security assessment of cloud computing on an e-health scenario, maintains that given the reduced cost and flexibility it brings, cloud computing is […]
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Moorfields merges help desks
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has implemented service management software from Hornbill enabling it to consolidate its three service desks into one. The trust has rolled-out Hornbill’s Supportworks ITSM service management software to provide support to over 1,200 clinical and administrative staff across 11 sites in London. The software enables 18 staff in the IT […]
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Disease matching network spreads
Software tools that can search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe are being developed and rolled-out to find children with closely matched conditions. The software aims to allow doctors to study how matched patients at other hospitals have been treated and whether their treatment was successful. The tools are being developed as part […]
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