London Oncology Clinic selects IMPAC Medical Systems
The London Oncology Clinic, a private provider on oncology services, has selected IMPAC Medical Systems to provide it with chemotherapy electronic charting, practice management, and statistical analysis solutions for its newly refurbished Harley Street clinic. According to Dr Maurice Slevin, consultant oncologist and one of the founding partners of the London Oncology Clinic, said that […]
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Glasgow network makes light work of data display
NHS Greater Glasgow has finalised the installation of a high-speed network that links all 19 PCTs and around half of the GP surgeries with Glasgow City Council allowing health and social care data to be collated and examined in one place, as well as fast transfer of images and pictures. A powerful portal system has […]
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Care record board to focus on communication
The new chair of the Care Record Development Board who is charged with the task of engaging stakeholders in the evolution of the new electronic record admits that it looks as though communication has not been as effective as it should be. Harry Cayton, who is also the Department of Health’s patients’ tsar, told his first […]
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Voxar provides Bournemouth with 3D PACS view
Edinburgh-based picture archiving and communication system (PACS) software specialist Voxar, has won a contract to supply the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s radiology department with its 3D imaging software. Voxar’s imaging software allows the rapid rendering and display of 3D medical scan images from computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) on […]
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Dermatology telemedicine system wins innovation award
An innovative scheme that not only uses electronic referral and PACS but software that plots healing patterns based on archived images has won its creators a cash award for Innovative Service Delivery in the NHS Innovations Health & Social Care Awards. The Leg Ulcer Telemedicine (LUTM) Service was programmed and developed by consultant vascular surgeon Simon […]
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Image-sharing over web helps child burn patients
Two west London hospitals, St Mary’s Paediatric A&E, Paddington, and Chelsea & Westminister’s specialist burns unit, have developed an electronic image-sharing link that replaces the old system of doctors describing patients’ injuries over the phone. A large JPEG of the patient’s injury is taken over a digital camera and uploaded to the software. The image […]
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Doubts raised over first NPfIT delivery deadlines
The leak of a confidential BT document, highlighting “material contractual issues", has raised concerns that the first June delivery dates of the National Programme for IT may prove extremely challenging to meet. Phase one, release one of the national programme, which largely focuses on the first phase of the Data Spine and introduction of electronic […]
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National programme PACS suppliers announced
The Department of Health has today announced that every hospital trust in England should get a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) within three years as part of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). Some £60m of national investment will go into PACS this year, with future central funds to be announced. The shoftfall in […]
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NPfIT helps NHS management consultant bill rise 185%
The government’s rapidly growing bill for management consultancy hit £1 billion last year, double the amount spent the previous year. Among the increases was a 185% increase in NHS expenditure on management consultants. Figures published by the Management Consultancies Association revealed that central government doubled its spending on management consultancy last year to £1 billion, making it […]
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Anglo-Finnish hospital benchmarking initiative launched
Finnish company C-Quest and the UK’s InFocus Health have launched an international hospital benchmarking initiative to comparatively measure and monitor healthcare efficiencies in hospitals in the UK and Finland, and recommend how technology can improve performance. The initiative was launched at a 5 November dinner hosted by Pertti Salolainen, the Finnish Ambassador to Great Britain, […]
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