ACS buys hosting and outsourcing firm
Advanced Computer Software, the owners of out of-hours software provider Adastra, has bought a hosting and outsourcing firm to accelerate its roll-out of hosted software services.
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One Health Alliance launched
A new ‘best of breed’ healthcare IT alliance has been launched, saying it will deliver technology and information solutions to both public and private healthcare organisations. The One Health Alliance has eight member companies covering; procurement management, network infrastructure, clinical IT and workflow consulting, electronic patient records clinical information systems, document and workflow solutions, business […]
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InterQual to manage care across Rotherham
Rotherham Health and Social Care Economy Partnership is deploying an evidence-based decision support and care management system developed and widely-used in the US. The partnership between Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Rotherham, and Rotherham Social Services was developed in July 2008, to meet national imperatives to use health services appropriately. It is now rolling out […]
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St George’s has information InView
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has selected CACI’s InView data warehouse and Business Intelligence solution to support its bid for foundation status and the implementation of a Cerner care record system as part of the National Programme for IT in the NHS. InView uses a Microsoft-based data-warehouse and a Business Objects reporting and analysis front-end. […]
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DH and London move on shared services
NHS chief executive David Nicholson is encouraging the health service to make greater use of shared services as London’s primary care trusts prepare to set up their own commissioning support organisation. Nicholson wrote to trust chief executives last week to encourage them to use NHS Shared Business Services or other shared services for back-office functions. […]
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NHS Manchester buys BI from Ardentia
NHS Manchester has deployed Ardentia’s data warehouse and patient level costing modules to replace in house legacy systems and support commissioning and provisioning. The data warehouse will collect information from the Secondary Uses Service, GP practices and the primary care trust’s provider arm, Manchester Community Health. Relevant staff will be given access to the data […]
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InterSystems introduces DeepSee
US health IT systems specialist InterSystems has announced the international launch of its new business intelligence (BI) product, DeepSee. The DeepSee product, which is embedded into InterSystems and partners software, is designed to deliver real-time BI for operational business processes, using current transactional data. InterSystems says the embedded BI approach avoids the need for separate […]
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Fujitsu exit may hinder trusts on 18-week waits
NHS trusts in the South of England may struggle to reach the national 18-week wait referral to treatment (RTT) target, as a result of the ending of Fujitsu’s contract to provide IT systems, including software to monitor waiting times. The warning, made by healthcare business intelligence specialist Ardentia, comes in the week that the Department […]
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