Siemens wins west London LAN deal
NHS Kensington and Chelsea has signed a contract with Siemens Enterprise Communications for a single voice and secure data network. The trust will roll-out Siemens’ OpenScape Voice platform and secure Enterasys Data Local Area Network (LAN) networking equipment at the beginning of 2010 as part of a single service agreement. When the implementation is complete, […]
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London SCR roll out announced
The Department of Health has announced that the Summary Care Record is to be rolled out across London from this week.
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West Dorset improves Down programme
The Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has rolled-out a maternity solution from GE Healthcare to provide a vigorous Down Syndrome programme for women in West Dorset. The trust has joined forces with Health Net Connections (HCN), the UK distributor for GE Healthcare’s Viewpoint and Trium CTG, to roll the solution out across four sites, including […]
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Kelsey – info should be compulsory
GPs and all other NHS providers should be mandated to publish routine, standardised data on their outcomes, according to the chairman of health information firm Dr Foster. Tim Kelsey told E-Health Insider Live ’09 that only English hospitals currently publish outcomes data and the next government should ‘force the pace.’ He said a future government […]
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EMIS Web v2 on show next week
Primary care system supplier EMIS has announced that it will preview version 2 of its next generation system EMIS Web at E-Health Insider Live ’09 next week. The company said it will be the first time the system has been shown outside the EMIS National User Group and follows the completion of internal testing. The […]
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ASCC procurements for the South
Christine Connelly says the NHS will run “a series of procurements utilising the ASCC framework in January 2010” to provide community, child health and acute systems for trusts in the South of England. The news appears to set out the beginnings of a roadmap for those trusts not covered by the BT contract extension for […]
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Quick wins
Over the moon, gobsmacked, delighted – just some of the reactions from the winners of the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT.
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EHI Awards 2009 winners announced
NHS Waltham Forest’s implementation of the RiO community and mental health system emerged as the overall winner of the E-Health Insider Awards in association with BT last night.
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Community hospital first for TPP
NHS East Riding of Yorkshire has become the first primary care trust in the country to implement TPP’s SystmOne Community Hospital module.
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Access code
Dr Maureen Baker, Caldicott Guardian for NHS Connecting for Health, outlines new guidance on the use of the Personal Demographics Service.
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