iSoft purchases BridgeForward
Australian health software specialist iSoft has purchased US hospital data integration specialist BridgeForward for £9m. The acquisition gives iSoft a toehold in the burgeoning US market, which the company sees as critical to its future growth. The deal also reinforces iSoft’s position in the UK, where BridgeForward’s integration technology is widely used, with clients including […]
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iSoft to develop medication management
iSoft has announced that it will develop its own medication management solution, which will be embedded within Lorenzo. The announcement comes after IBA, iSoft’s Australian parent company, entered into a $15m agreement to acquire Hatrix, a provider of electronic medication management solutions for acute and community healthcare providers. The company says it will use Hatrix’s expertise […]
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Lorenzo officially launched
Lorenzo, the future strategic care records software promised to three-fifths of the English NHS has officially launched internationally in Sydney, Australia.
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Competition begins to open up in the South
Competition for NHS IT business in the south of England looks set to become a lot more “flexible”, with trusts and strategic health authorities planning to take different approaches. Gary Cohen, executive chairman of IBA Health Group, the owners of iSoft, told E-health Insider that competition looks certain in the region, following Fujitsu being axed […]
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Lorenzo Studio
Gary Cohen, executive chairman of IBA Health Group, talks about the company’s plans for Lorenzo Studio to revolutionise healthcare.
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IBA says Lorenzo will launch in November
In its first annual report since acquiring UK health software vendor iSoft, for €208m last August, IBA Health on Monday reported that revenues have almost quadrupled to €211m, up from €44m in 2007. The Australian company said the first version of its long delayed Lorenzo strategic software will have a “global launch” this November. A […]
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IBA tells investors Lorenzo will launch in November
In its first annual report since acquiring UK health software vendor iSoft, for £166m last August, IBA Health on Monday reported that revenues have almost quadrupled to £168m, up from £35m in 2007. The Australian company said the first version of its long delayed Lorenzo strategic software will have a “global launch” this November. A […]
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IBA boss says Lorenzo ‘will happen’
The chairman of IBA Health has told E-Health Insider that he is not aware of any problems that would prevent the installation of Lorenzo at three NHS pilot sites this summer. In an exclusive interview with EHI Gary Cohen says of the long-delayed NHS delivery of the first software carrying the Lorenzo badge: “There is […]
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IBA boss says corner turned on iSoft
Six months after his company bought iSoft, Gary Cohen, chairman of Australia’s IBA Health, speaks to E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma.
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IBA Health completes purchase of iSoft
Australia’s IBA Health has completed its acquisition of England’s iSoft after the High Court of Justice for England and Wales approved the takeover, with iSoft now de-listed from the London Stock Exchange. The completion of the deal marks the end of the remarkable rise, followed by precipitous decline and fall, of iSoft as the UK’s […]
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