EHI’s industry news roundup 12.10.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 12 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and events, implementations and appointments. Implementations Mayday uses single sign on from Enline Staff at the Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to sign on to systems just the once to use any network applications, after […]
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Accenture hits PACS milestone
Accenture has completed its deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems supplied by Agfa across the North East and East of England strategic health authorities. Accenture ceased being the former local service provider to the North-east and Eastern cluster in January of this year, being replaced by Computer Sciences Corporation. The firm retained responsibility for delivery […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry news roundup 28.09.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 28 September, featuring product launches, implementations and appointments. Innovations Video games could help in the battle against hospital ‘superbugs’. A pilot project is using computer games to help make healthcare staff more aware of potentially fatal hospital infections such as MRSA and c. difficile. The […]
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PCTs plan moves to single system
Primary care trusts (PCTs) in some areas of northern England have set out plans to move all GP practices onto a single system, TPP’s SystmOne, as contracts for the GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) initiative are about to be signed. More than a dozen PCTs in the North-east have published IM&T plans which outline the […]
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CSC reach 600 SystmOne deployments
CSC have reached 600 installations of SystmOne GP system within the North, Midlands and East (NME) Programme for IT. TPP, the supplier of the SystmOne software, is working with CSC, local service provider to the NME Programme for IT, to provide an integrated primary care solution, SystmOne GP, to GPs in the cluster. TPP also supplies […]
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Granger says he is ‘ashamed’ of some systems provided
The departing head of the NHS IT programme Richard Granger has said he is ashamed of the quality of some of the systems put into the NHS by Connecting for Health suppliers, singling Cerner out for criticism. Going further than he before in acknowledging the extent of failings of systems provided to some parts of […]
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Nottingham says PACS has already saved £1m
The deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems can save trusts over £1m each year, an NHS IT director has claimed. Andrew Fearn, director of ICT services at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust says that his trust has made the savings, calculated before deductions on the cost of PACS, based on reductions in the costs […]
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The end of the beginning?
Are we at the end of the beginning of NHS IT modernisation? Jon Hoeksma tests Churchill’s famous quote against the evidence.
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how the company is planning to tackle the UK hospital electronic patient record market.
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