Disclosure: a key issue for Caldicott Guardians in 2004
The UK’s 1,000 plus Caldicott Guardians, champions for data protection in the NHS and social care, have a packed agenda for 2004 and a new group, the UK Council of Caldicott Guardians, to support them. E-Health Insider talked to the NHS Information Authority’s guardian, DrJanine Brooks, who is helping to set up the council . Speaking […]
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South Manchester Chooses InFocus Health
In Focus Health Ltd has won the contract tender to supply South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust with its web-based clinical performance reporting and benchmarking system. InFocus Health will supply South Manchester with its HiPPO 21 system. Installation is due to begin immediately with the system due to be rolled out to 250 users across […]
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IMS Maxims and Picis partner on critical care
IMS Maxims and US-based Picis have formed a partnership to offer anaesthesia and critical care clinical IT products throughout the UK and Ireland. Picis is a global leader in providing integrated operating room, anaesthesia and critical care information systems that automate the clinical documentation and business practices throughout perioperative care. According to the two firms […]
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Apollo partners with Microtest
Apollo Medical Systems Ltd have announced an agreement with Microtest Ltd, an IT supplier to the primary health care market, which will see Microtest use Apollo’s remote audit toolkit A3 in Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). A3 will form Microtest’s preferred solution for PCTs to enable them to meet the information requirements set out in the […]
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Newchurch starts Tees diabetes ICRS project
Information solutions and consulting specialist, Newchurch Limited, has started work on the Tees Diabetes Integrated Record Service Pilot (ICRS) for County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority. The pilot project, funded by the South Tees Hospitals NHS Trust, started last week and will continued until April 2004. The system developed will be used to […]
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TransScript ETP project to close
TransScript ETP, the only UK company dedicated to the development of the Electronic Transmission of Prescriptions (ETP), is to close from 31 December 2003. TransScript was formed by PharMed, an organisation that has been committed to developing secure open industry standards for ETP since 1997. The PharMed project, one of three ETP pilots run nationally, […]
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Newcastle Hospitals awards Ferrania RIS/PACS contract
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has completed a pilot procurement of community-wide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS), in a move designed to provide a template for National programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements in PACS/RIS systems. After a competitive procurement the trust has awarded Ferrania UK’s LifeImaging division a […]
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BT starts to award contracts for ‘data spine’
BT, which won two of the major contracts announced by the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) on 8 December, has been awarding sub-contracts to technology suppliers. The contracts have so far focused on suppliers to help BT deliver the NHS Care Records Service, or ‘data spine’, the national database of electronic patient records that […]
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More cash for the national programme?
A further £2 billion is being sought to fund the NHS National Programme for IT into 2006 and 2007, according to a report in the Financial Times. The report comes as the service and its healthcare IT suppliers await news of the seven contract awards due to be made for the NHS data spine, local […]
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Meditech wins first Irish customer
Galway Medical Clinic, owned by Blackrock Medical Partners, has licensed the complete health care information system (HCIS) from Medical Technology Medical Information Technology, Inc. (Meditech), becoming the first Meditech customer in Ireland. The new private Galway Medical Clinic comprises 36 consulting suites and a 101 bed hospital. US-based Meditech will provide staff working at […]
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