Birmingham to use Siemens’ Syngo.via
The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham will be one of the first in England to implement Siemens’ new Syngo.via imaging software. The new £545m hospital, which will be the largest single-site hospital in the UK, will implement the multi-modality imaging software to compliment its four MRIs, four CT scanners and gamma camera systems. The […]
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Birmingham PICS CSE as partner
Birmingham Systems PICS (Prescribing Information and Communications System), developed by staff at the city’s University Hospitals, is now available to other healthcare providers following an implementation partnership agreement with CSE Healthcare Systems. The system, which was on show at the Informatics Congress 2010 in Birmingham last week, not only provides an electronic prescribing and medicines […]
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Swindells tells IT pros to up their game
The newly appointed head of BCS Health has called for informaticians to “step up to the plate” and lead change within the NHS.
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Records can be used to identify CVD risk
Identifying patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease through electronic primary care records would be just as effective in preventing CVD as the universal screening programme proposed by the government, researchers have concluded. Dr Simon Griffin and colleagues from the Medical Research Council’s epidemiology unit in Cambridge looked at different screening strategies for identifying and […]
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New EHI Award recognises major projects
A new category has been launched for this year’s E-Health Insider Awards in association with BT. ‘Excellence in major healthcare IT development’ will recognise the work of suppliers and healthcare teams tackling major projects in the UK. E-Health Insider director Linda Davidson said: “We decided to introduce a new category to celebrate the work of […]
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Cohen: Morecambe Bay go-live ‘early May’
Gary Cohen has predicted that the latest version of Lorenzo will go live at University Hopsitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust in May 2010. The executive chairman and chief executive of iSoft told the Financial Times "we are confident that we have a go-live in early May." He made his comments the day after NHS chief […]
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UHB predicts patients who will DNA
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has developed a predictive Did Not Attend system that identifies in advance the patients most likely to miss their appointment. The new system, developed in-house at the trust, is built on algorithms that identify the patients due to come into the outpatient’s clinic but are unlikely to keep their […]
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Portsmouth signs up for digi-pens
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust is set to roll-out digital pens to more than 130 staff across its community midwifery department. The trust believes it was the first in the country to pilot the digital pens, which have been developed by digital pen providers Anoto and PaperIQ together with BlackBerry. It will now roll-out the system over […]
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ISoft creates UK LIS development team
ISoft is creating a development team to advance the capabilities of its pathology systems. It is also planning to release a series of new functions for its i.Laboratory and i.Laboratory TP range.
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Lorenzo ‘will stop at Release 2’
CSC may only deliver the first two releases of Lorenzo, the electronic patient record system being deployed across the North, Midlands and East of England, under the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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