What is in store for QoF?
The GP in charge of recommending changes to the Quality and Outcomes Framework tells Sarah Bruce what is on the agenda.
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Sunquest completes purchase of Anglia Healthcare
Sunquest Information Systems, the US specialist in laboratory and diagnostic information systems, has completed the acquisition of Anglia Healthcare Systems. Anglia, which had been privately-held, is a UK company providing laboratory connectivity, orders, reporting and messaging products. As of Monday the firm became a subsidiary of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. The completion of the deal […]
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Sunquest to buy Anglia Healthcare Systems
US laboratory systems firm, Sunquest Information Systems Inc, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UK firm Anglia Healthcare Systems.
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East Anglia trusts invest in blood tracking
Three NHS trusts in East Anglia have invested in blood tracking technology from Olympus. The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals and James Paget University Hospitals NHS foundation trusts and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Trust will install Olympus BloodTrack Courier on all blood issue fridges. They will also deploy SafeTx PDA/scanners onto wards. […]
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Great Yarmouth GPs use pathology e-requesting
GP practices in East Anglia are using a new order communications solution called GP RequestVision from Olympus, to request pathology tests from the nearby James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. GPs from practices in Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney are using the solution to order pathology tests online via a simple tick box style form, interfaced […]
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Suspended doctor wins apology over share record
A junior doctor suspended by her employers for five years after objecting to her private medical records being given to researchers, has won a High Court battle forcing her employers to apologise to her in an open court session. The case highlights problems in the lack of patient consent in determining whether their records can […]
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BMA to attempt to control internet drug sales
The British Medical Association (BMA) is to work with the UK government and the World Health Organisation to control internet sales of medicines. Concerns have been raised by the UN and the World Health Organisation that some drugs sold over the Internet are counterfeit and potentially harmful. Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of BMA Council, said […]
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‘Interop’ solution joins up labels and orders
ICE Desktop Test Requesting Screen (click to enlarge) Healthcare organisations that use Anglia Healthcare System’s ICE Desktop software to provide electronic messaging services will be able to process order requests and print specimen labels faster following a new collaboration with labelling specialists, QuickTrace. The companies have worked together on a specially-designed, interoperable version of QuickTrace’s labelling solution, […]
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Ambulance software to be rolled out in three regions
Ambulance software that enables paramedics to record patient details electronically and send them to hospital staff ahead of arrival in A&E is to be rolled out in three English NHS regions. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced an agreement with Canadian-based Medusa Medical Technologies to equip ambulances in the North, Midlands and East of England […]
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CSC deploys first community PAS in Eastern cluster
Cambridgeshire PCT has become the first trust to receive an iSoft Community iPM system from Computer Sciences Corporation in the Eastern region of the NHS, formerly overseen by Accenture. The system went live on 30 March in three sites, the Princess of Wales Hospital, Arthur Rank House and Brookfields Hospital, replacing their previous community system, […]
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