Patient records on spine to be accessed via PDA
Oracle, who are providing infrastructure for the NPfIT for the NHS data spine, have signed a partnership deal with Medify Solutions, a based mobile services provider based near Newbury, to provide the ability to access patient records over PDAs. The MedifyRemote system will not just allow access to records on the data spine, but theoretically […]
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SRC Software announces European expansion
A corporate performance management software supplier used in healthcare has set up a new dedicated operation to serve European customers. SRC Software says that seven out of ten of the major US hospital chains and 47 out of the top 100 healthcare institutions use its corporate performance management (CPM) solutions. In the UK, SRC counts […]
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Autism care charity installs document security
A regional charitable trust that provides residential care and education for people in the south-west of England with autism and Asperger’s syndrome has implemented a document security system which is also used by the military. Spectrum, also known as Devon and Cornwall Autistic Community Trust, operates around 23 homes across the south-west of England and […]
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InPS SMS upgrade allows for care service alerts
In Practice Systems (InPS) has announced an extension to its Vision system that will allow general practices not only to send out text messages to remind people of appointments but also to inform patients of flu vaccinations and other care services. The Patient Care Messaging (PCM) system sends messages through an external internet gateway called […]
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GE wins £110m PACS contract for South of England
GE Healthcare has signed with Fujitsu Services Ltd to provide Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) across the whole of the Southern region of the English National Health Service under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The agreement will see GE healthcare implement PACS technology that will enable the conversion of hospitals and clinics to […]
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McKesson launches digital medical photograph solution
McKesson today announced the launch of its PhotoManager, software designed to allow clinical staff to access digital medical photographs of their patients at workstations in their clinic or ward, using a web browser. The company says that the solution integrates with electronic records, and will ultimately be a seamless interface with any clinical databases. Jerry Flynn, […]
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Gartner awarded market intelligence contract
The National Programme for IT has awarded a one-year £154,000 contract to IT analysts Gartner to provide it with market intelligence services. The deal follows the award of a £117,000 contract to Ovum for ‘supplier relations’ services in July. According to NPfIT the market intelligence to be supplied by Gartner will help it monitor the […]
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MP tables questions on iSoft accounting
iSoft, a leading supplier of clinical software under the NHS’ National Programme for IT, has come under parliamentary scrutiny over its accounting and suspension of a director, who has just been re-elected to the board while suspended. Paul Farrelly, Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme has tabled questions to the Secretary of State for Health on whether […]
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InterSystems Demonstrates Scalability of Primary Care Systems
Database systems supplier InterSystems, has announced that it has carried out successful scalability tests of its CACHÉ database product in collaboration with primary care clinical systems supplier EMIS to demonstrate how primary care electronic records can be scaled to a national-scale system with a small hardware footprint. The scalability tests were based on demonstrating how […]
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Open Source: ‘A Frenzy of Consolidation?’
This week E-Health Insider launches a new ‘Open Source’ column for anyone interested in healthcare IT to voice their opinion. In this first article Phil Birchall, healthcare business development manager at InterSystems, comments on consolidation among healthcare IT suppliers in light of the Torex acquisition of Protos last week. As we move closer to the […]
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