Carestream mid-way through NHSScotland PACS
Carestream Health has announced it has reached the half-way point in delivering PACS to NHSScotland, and intends to complete installations by the end of the year. The project now has 21 sites connected out of the country’s 39 hospitals, with 10,000 general clinical users and 200 radiologists registered to the system. According to 1 May […]
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NPfIT progress so far
Gordon Hextall, NHS CfH chief operating officer and interim director of programme and systems delivery, sets out progress on the NHS National Programme for IT.
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NPfIT spent half total planned in first three years
The £12bn NHS IT programme had spent barely half the amount it had planned to by March 2007, due to lengthy delays in the delivery of the detailed local electronic patient records at the centre of the project. By March 2007 the programme had spent a total of £2.4bn, against an original forecast spend of […]
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Caresteam completes PACS rollout in Paris
Carestream Health has completed a Euros 8m project to install PACS across 20 sites of the Assistance Publique Des Hopitaux De Paris (APHP), a French public healthcare group. The group wanted to move away from old film techniques and move to digital imaging in as many of their sites as possible. After going out to […]
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Nottingham says PACS has already saved £1m
The deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems can save trusts over £1m each year, an NHS IT director has claimed. Andrew Fearn, director of ICT services at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust says that his trust has made the savings, calculated before deductions on the cost of PACS, based on reductions in the costs […]
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how the company is planning to tackle the UK hospital electronic patient record market.
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PACS rollout to be completed by 2008
All hospitals in England will receive new Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) by 2008, the Department of Health has announced. The announcement yesterday (21 May) kicked off a week-long promotion campaign for technology in the NHS in which health ministers will be showcasing and promoting the benefits of using “cutting edge technology” in trusts […]
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Mayday sees PACS benefits
Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust was one of the first sites in London to get BT’s Philips PACS system in London. EHI’s Joe Fernandez visited the trust to find out the difference it’s made to patient care.
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals to deploy PACS
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have announced that they are launching a £13m project to deploy PACS in its two hospitals. The new digital imaging service, to be delivered by the Foundation trust’s local service provider, CSC, will provide the trust with high quality digital x-rays and radiological images, such as CT scans. The […]
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