Berkshire gets CfH help desk accreditation
HP Service Desk Berkshire Shared Services has gained Connecting for Health accreditation to enable it to handle IT-related technical problems over the two primary care trusts and 12 community hospitals it serves. The accreditation means that the group has been approved to manage incidents directly as opposed to clients having to contact the national service […]
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Airedale hospital to pilot RFID from Siemens
Airedale NHS Trust will be piloting new Radio Frequency Identification technology from Siemens Healthcare to track 100 intravenous pumps across the trust, over 30 days. The pilot will be the first time both Siemens and Airedale have used RFID technology to track assets across various buildings on the hospital site, via the hospital’s new wireless […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 09.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 9 May 2008 featuring supplier news, appointments and awards. Supplier news Salford deploy CACI management information system Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has chosen the InView management information system from CACI to improve clinical reporting and support the their quality agenda. InView, which utilises a […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 20.03.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 20 March 2008 featuring supplier news, acquisitions and appointments. Supplier news Philips and Ascent Profit sign €25m deal for digital radiography systems in China Royal Philips Electronics and Ascent Profit, a Chinese medical equipment wholesaler, have signed a €25m contract to bring digital radiography systems […]
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McKesson says ESR job done
As the NHS Electronic Staff Record nears completion, E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma speaks to Charmaine McDonald, MD of McKesson UK, the company behind the project.
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Fujitsu integrate JAC pharmacy at Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust has become the first trust to receive a JAC pharmacy system from local service provider Fujitsu, integrated with its Cerner Millennium patient administration system. The JAC system is now being offered as one of Fujitsu’s best of breed options until similar functionality becomes available within Millennium. The JAC system originally […]
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NHS Direct on a mission to explain
Matt Tee has been CEO of NHS Direct for the past four months, he told us of his plans for the organisation.
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Integration to improve newborn testing
One of the 2 million babies to be screened since the launch of NHSP The NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP) will soon be able to automatically import data from screening devices into a central database, with the aid of InterSystems’ Ensemble integration platform. The NHSP has been using the eScreener Plus (eSP) system from […]
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Data Management: migration
For the IT manager in charge of getting data out of a legacy system and into a new PAS, the challenge can be daunting.
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iSoft chosen as reseller of mobile clinical assistant
Motion Computing have chosen iSoft to be the first UK-based solution reseller for the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged and washable tablet-PC style device specifically designed to provide doctors and nurses with access to updated patient records and the ability to document a patient’s condition. Incorporating Intel’s latest wireless technology the MCA features a […]
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