EHI’s industry news roundup 14.03.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 14 March 2008 featuring supplier news and product launches. Supplier news Ascribe post interim financial results Ascribe’s chairman Stephen Critchlow, has unveiled a fall in pre-tax profits from £1.66m to just £812,000 during the six months to December 31 2007. Turnover fell from £7.5m to £7.1m. […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 07.03.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 7 March 2008 featuring supplier news and appointments. Supplier news Zebra helps make patient ID a priority Zebra Technologies has announced a partnership with Tracline, to help hospitals fulfill National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) directives. Tracline, a specialist healthcare IT supplier, will use Zebra’s wristband […]
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The bigger picture at HIMSS
Jon Hoeksma visits the ever-expanding US healthcare IT show, HIMSS, where business intelligence and consumer-led e-health were big themes.
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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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EHI’s industry news roundup 08.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 8 February 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, and events. Supplier news COA wins £3.6m NHSScotland deal COA Solutions has won a £3.6m contract to supply all 22 Scottish health boards with a comprehensive portfolio of financial, procurement support, business intelligence and document management software […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 11.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 11 January 2008. North Yorkshire PCT use digital pen and paper for SAP Anoto partner Ubisys is to roll out digital pen and paper technology to 150 North Yorkshire Adult and Community services staff at North Yorkshire and York PCT to improve their procedures for […]
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Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson
Senior staff at Medway NHS Trust are piloting McKesson’s Horizon Business Insight solution in order to extract performance information at the click of a button. The system has been widely deployed across the US, and McKesson have been working with Medway to configure it to meet the needs of the English NHS. The system, known […]
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Ardentia acquires InFocus Health
Healthcare performance management software provider Ardentia has announced the acquisition of InFocus Health, whose information analysis solution Hippo21 is used predominantly in Wales, Scotland and the South of England. The sale brings together two businesses both offering business intelligence products to the health sector and Ardentia says the two companies will continue to operate separately. […]
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New timetable for trusts to switch to XML for CRS data
NHS Connecting for Health has outlined a new timetable for changing the way in which data is sent to the NHS Care Records Service. Its latest guidance indicates that from July 2006 trusts will need to begin submitting their commissioning data sets to the CRS’s Secondary Uses Services in XML. Trusts will need to phase […]
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IBM invests $250m in healthcare initiative
IBM today announced a $250m (£132m) global initiative over three years to boost its presence in healthcare. The money will be used for solutions development, research and development, IBM Business Partner collaborations and to hire new specialists. Dr. Caroline Kovac, general manager of IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences said: “"The healthcare industry is under tremendous […]
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