EHI’s industry round up 22.12.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up includes news about the benefits that trusts are seeing from deploying new technology, launches and partnerships between leading healthcare technology companies. Trusts reaps service desk accreditation benefits The Primary Care Informatics Unit covering NHS Blackburn with Darwen and NHS East Lancashire says it has seen "tangible benefits" since […]
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Burnham defends NPfIT but cuts £600m
Health secretary Andy Burnham has launched a spirited defence of the National Programme for IT in the NHS, but £600m will be trimmed from the way it is run and the scope of some systems.
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Brown streamlines government with IT
Gordon Brown has outlined plans to encourage much greater use of information, online services and text messaging in the NHS as part of a public sector information revolution that he claims will save £3 billion a year. The Prime Minister told the Smarter Government conference today that the UK was entering the “third generation of […]
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iSoft cuts support and delivery staff
Australian software company iSoft has made 36 people redundant from its UK customer support and delivery department as a result of the restructuring project it launched in the summer. Despite the redundancies, 43 new roles have been created across departments including sales, operations, product management, integration services, commercial and professional services. However, only five people […]
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Four in ten readers expect cuts
Four out of ten NHS IT staff are expecting their budgets to decrease next year, and a further 36% expect them to be frozen at this year’s level.
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Mind the gap
Brian Derry from the NHS Information Centre reflects on the coming financial crunch and how informatics can help the NHS through it.
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BigHand cuts practice turnaround times
BigHand says that its digital dictation workflow technology has improved the turnaround time for patient notes by 40% at one GP practice. BigHand technology has replaced analogue tape dictation equipment for ten GPs and five secretaries at the Yaxley Group Practice in Peterborough. Before the installation, GPs often found that the tapes would break and […]
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NHS staff admit to being DNAs
A survey of health professionals attending an NHS Alliance event found that three out of ten have missed a medical appointment. The survey of 100 people by In4Health, which delivers news and information services to screens in NHS waiting rooms, found that five admitted missing "a shocking" five appointments. The NHS Information Centre estimates that did not attends […]
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Arctic blast
A think-tank recently ranked its funding forecasts for the NHS from ‘tepid’ to ‘arctic.’ Sarah Bruce asks what that will mean for healthcare IT.
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EHI’s industry round up 31.7.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new and upgraded products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Eizo supports Sectra in Northern Ireland Monitor manufacturer Eizo has been chosen to provide medical monitors for the Swedish medical IT company Sectra, which is installing PACS at Northern Ireland’s hospitals. The Northern Ireland […]
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