Damp Holding AG awards contract to iSoft
iSoft has won a two-year €1.65m contract with German private healthcare group Damp Holding AG to provide an integrated radiology information system and picture archiving and communications system. The enterprise wide system will connect the radiology departments at Damp Holding’s six acute care hospitals across Germany and an operating centre in Denmark. The deal, which […]
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Hospitals breaking DPA every day
The BMA says hospitals are breaking the Data Protection Act on a daily basis by sending referral correspondence to the senior partner in a practice.
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Wales publishes pathology shortlist
Six companies have been shortlisted as potential providers to develop a national pathology laboratory system for Wales. The procurement is expected to award a £7.9m national contract for pathology services to become available in 2010. The Welsh IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that Cerner, Clinisys, EMIS, iSoft, InterSystems and Technidata have been selected to […]
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Vision 3 first GPSoC level 4 system
INPS has announced that its Vision clinical system has become the first GP system to achieve GP Systems of Choice accreditation for its hosted services. NHS Connecting for Health has granted Vision 3 level 4 compliance under GPSoC, which means the system has met its standards for hosted services. Primary care trusts can also claim […]
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Call for overhaul of Scottish IT
GP representatives in Scotland have called for full integration of GP and secondary care systems and changes to out-of-hours services in a document outlining their strategy for the future of general practice. BMA Scotland has published a ‘white paper style’ consultation document to encourage debate and discussion on a long term strategy for general practice […]
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PCTs to offer local incentive schemes for data accreditation
PCTs will need to offer local incentive schemes for data accreditation from April to support the national roll-out of the Summary Care Record, NHS Connecting for Health has said. The nationally negotiated directed enhanced service for IM&T finishes at the end of March and so far only 19% of GP practices have achieved component two which […]
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CHKS acquired by Capita for £11.6m
UK healthcare intelligence specialist CHKS has been bought by outsourcing specialist Capita Group Plc for £11.6m. CHKS specialises in providing data, coding and performance analysis services to NHS organisations. The sale was made by CHKS parent Healthcare Knowledge International, a European benchmarking performance and analysis information provider. In the financial year to 31 December 2008 […]
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Wiltshire Health signs deal with System C
System C has signed a five-year contract with a consortium of GPs in Wiltshire providing services in the community that were traditionally delivered in the acute sector. The new consortium is called Wilcare Health Ltd, and is one of the new forms of primary care organisation being promoted by the government. Wilcare is in partnership with […]
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Choose and Book contract extended
The Department of Health has signed a two year extension with Atos Healthcare for the national Choose and Book contract. The deal extends the initial £64.5m five year national contract signed with Schlumberger-Sema (since taken over by Atos Origin) in 2003, and later expanded. DH figures show that £103m had been spent on the contract by […]
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Detailed Care Records for 3.5m patients
More than 3.5m patients in Yorkshire and the Humber now have a Detailed Care Record for primary and community care, in one of the lesser-known success stories of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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