FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system. Siemens and FDBE have already worked together in America, and will now collaborate to integrate the decision support system into the UK version of Soarian. Siemens’ IT solutions business […]
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Tories back more collaborative approach on IT
Shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has said that the government needs to start taking advantage of the ‘collaborative forums that are emerging on the internet’, citing the Patient Opinion website as an example. “The Patient Opinion website, a social enterprise set up by a Sheffield GP, is already demonstrating what can be achieved,” Osborne told a […]
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Accreditation win for Barts and London service desk
Barts and The London NHS Trust has become the first hospital trust in England to win Connecting for Health accreditation to provide expert IT support to NHS organisations nationally. The accreditation allows the trust to offer 24-hour Front Line Support Services for National Programme for IT (NPfIT) Applications such as the NHS Care Records Service, […]
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Software helps Bucks cope with rising support calls
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented a new support call service to meet increased demand following the deployment of its new Cerner Millennium patient administration system last September and a general increase in computer use. The software from Hornbill Systems’ Supportworks Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) provides an integrated platform for automating and managing request […]
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NHS ramps up spend on management consultants
Spending on management consultants across the public sector has reached a record a record £3bn a year, with an increase of over a third in the past two years, according to new figures released by the National Audit Office. The increase in spending over the past two years is largely driven by the increased use […]
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BUPA sends old computers to Moldovan hospitals
Private healthcare provider BUPA has donated £25,000 to technology charity Digital Links International to cover the costs of providing 800 refurbished computers for 30 medical institutions in Moldova. A former state of the Soviet Union, Moldova is Europe’s poorest country and many hospitals lack access to modern IT. Digital Links International are working with the […]
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NHS broadband network provider wins ISO accreditation
BT has announced that its NHS New National Network service provider arm (N3SP), the unit within BT responsible for building and supporting the broadband network for the NHS has achieved ISO 20000 accreditation for effective IT service management. N3 is the broadband infrastructure for the £12.4 billion NHS National Programme for Information Technology (NPfIT). ISO […]
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Nuffield aims for ‘paperless’ hospital finance
Nuffield hospitals, the UK independent hospitals group, has signed a contract with document management specialists Version One to implement its electronic form design, automated document delivery and electronic payment technologies across its 40 hospitals. The Version One software will replace Nuffield’s current manual processes, which involves signing and posting cheques with hard-copy remittance advices, and […]
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Online care pathways for cancer developed
The NHS Cancer Services Collaborative ‘Improvement Partnership’ (CSCIP) has developed a national electronic information pathway designed to point cancer patients and health professionals towards relevant and useful information, whatever the stage of the illness. The site, which was developed using feedback from patients, GPs and cancer care specialists, is continually updated and is based on […]
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