Leicester picks IBM as IT partner
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has picked IBM to provide it with IM&T services and to procure and implement a new electronic patient record.
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Big Blue
IBM’s Watson may have won headlines for winning Jeopardy! But a very similar supercomputer is doing something much more useful – analysing data in Wales. Chris Thorne reports on Blue C.
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Viaduct built on IBM cloud
ISoft has announced it will release a cloud edition of its Viaduct integration engine under its new cloud computing strategy.
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IBM and Carefx form partnership
IBM has announced a partnership with Carefx to enable NHS trusts to provide clinicians with real-time access to patient data from multiple back-end systems.
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Basingstoke rolls out IBM portal
Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out a clinical portal based on IBM’s Websphere platform.
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Norway signs €90m deal with IBM
The Central Norway Regional Health Authority has signed a deal worth almost €90m (£75m) with IBM for IT systems to support reporting of health information, logistics and finance across all of the country’s hospitals.
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IBM to acquire Initiate Systems
IBM has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Initiate Systems for an undisclosed sum. Initiate is best known for providing applications that manage patient information in pharmacies and hospitals, including tools to make sure that systems share a consistent view of information and to manage and share records between healthcare facilities. In the […]
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Continua demos in Las Vegas
The Continua Health Alliance has announced its first end-to-end connected health solution, based on Continua architecture standards. The Alliance, which is a non-profit, open industry organisation of more than 220 healthcare and technology organisations across the world, said the development is a significant milestone in its aim to create an ecosystem of interoperable telehealth solutions. […]
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IBM Italy launches telemedicine project
IBM is to launch a telemedicine project in Bolzano, Italy, designed to improve elderly patients’ independence and quality of life, while reducing health care costs.
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Rotterdam hospital buys LabCentre
The Ikazia Hospital in Rotterdam has become the first Dutch hospital to purchase LabCentre, iSoft’s laboratory software application. LabCentre, was launched in the Netherlands last year to provide a modern, scalable and full graphic laboratory information system for clinical chemical, bacteriological disciplines and blood banks. The system was designed to support flexible workflows and improve […]
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