EHI’s industry round up 31.7.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new and upgraded products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Eizo supports Sectra in Northern Ireland Monitor manufacturer Eizo has been chosen to provide medical monitors for the Swedish medical IT company Sectra, which is installing PACS at Northern Ireland’s hospitals. The Northern Ireland […]
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North Cumbria goes live with Ascribe
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has announced a multi-site go live of Ascribe’s hospital pharmacy and management systems. The trust chose Ascribe’s latest web pharmacy system in June last year. It wanted to replace its old pharmacy system, which could not provide the detailed patient medication records that it wanted for its three dispensaries […]
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Ascribe valued at £32.9m in MBO offer
AIM-listed health software firm Ascribe has been valued at £32.9m in a proposed management buy out, details of which were published today. In August Ascribe announced that discussions on a possible management buy out had begun, with the bid led by Ascribe’s executive chairman Stephen Critchlow. Commenting on the offer Critchlow said: “Ascribe’s growth will be better […]
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Ascribe acquires WCI Healthcare
UK Healthcare IT software specialist Ascribe Group Plc has acquired WCI Consulting Ltd’s healthcare division. The purchase of the consultancy will bolster Ascribe’s implementation capabilities, enabling it to offer NHS trusts its range of specialist clinical software systems, together with associated implementation and business change consultancy. Stephen Critchlow, executive chairman of Ascribe, said the deal would enable […]
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Kent and Medway to implement Ascribe
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust has disbanded its Care Records System team and will implement a system from Ascribe instead. Following Fujitsu’s exit from the National Programme for IT, the trust decided to use its contingency plans to consolidate all of its existing systems into a single system known as ePEX […]
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Suppliers set out vision for ASCC
EHI spoke to a number of ASCC lot 2 suppliers to see what they hope to achieve from the new framework. Joe Fernandez reports.
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ASCC clinical contracts in full
Bolton moves to online pharmacy system
Actor Dave Spikey helps launch Bolton’s new robotic dispensing system. The Royal Bolton Hospital, part of the Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust, has upgraded its electronic prescribing system to the Ascribe Web Pharmacy system, and invested in a new robotic dispensing system. To be delivered over three months, the system was launched by Phoenix Nights actor and Bolton […]
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Bolton meet integration needs with InterSystems
Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented InterSystems Ensemble rapid integration platform in an effort to connect all its hospital systems to its iSoft iPM patient administration system. The trust went to tender for technology to meet its local integration needs and address the integration requirements associated with its National Programmed for IT systems. Bolton chose […]
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Mid Cheshire switch to Ascribe e-prescribing
Pharmacists at the Mid Cheshire NHS Hospitals Trust have started using a web-based e-pharmacy system from Ascribe to fully automate the department and integrate with existing systems. The system, called Web Pharmacy, connects information throughout the pharmacy department, between prescribing, pharmacy and administration processes, including stock management and finance. Ascribe’s executive chairman, Stephen Critchlow, told […]
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