EMIS goes national with digital TV appointment booking
Primary care IT supplier EMIS has extended its online appointment booking service so that patients can now book GP surgery appointments via digital television or by using their mobile phone. EMIS has announced that it is extending the digital television service to cover all practices across the country using its EMIS Access module after successful […]
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iSoft chosen as reseller of mobile clinical assistant
Motion Computing have chosen iSoft to be the first UK-based solution reseller for the C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant, a rugged and washable tablet-PC style device specifically designed to provide doctors and nurses with access to updated patient records and the ability to document a patient’s condition. Incorporating Intel’s latest wireless technology the MCA features a […]
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Business as usual
Charlie McCaffrey, Carestream Health’s UK and Ireland managing director tells Linda Davidson about the company’s new name, new owners and its commitment to ‘business as usual’.
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Philips speech recognition now Citrix Ready
Royal Philips Electronics have announced that their speech recognition system SpeechMagic has successfully received ‘Citrix Ready’ status, which will allow thousands of clinicians to remotely access speech recognition from any location. The SpeechMagic system is already used by thousands of clinicians globally and Philips say that thanks to the Citrix technology it will now be […]
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Coventry and Warwick install digital patient tracking
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust has implemented a new web-based emergency department patient tracking system called ED Whiteboard from ExtraMed. The system can be accessed on any computer within the department and has one main touch-screen style whiteboard for clinicians in busy emergency departments to keep track of which patients have or haven’t […]
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Carestream expand eHealth business
Carestream Health has announced that it will be expanding the role of its eHealth Managed Services Business, which is dedicated to the protection, communication, sharing and distribution of patient information for healthcare institutions. The company are expanding the role of the organisation to include a range of services aimed at providing healthcare customers with secure, […]
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European RIS and PACS integration on the rise
A report by Frost and Sullivan has found that the integration between Radiology Information Systems (RIS) and Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) is becoming increasingly popular in Europe. In its latest research report, titled European RIS Markets, Frost and Sullivan found that the trend towards RIS-PACS integration in Europe is fast gathering pace, but […]
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EC looks to IT to help support older people
The European Commission has unveiled plans for a new €1bn European Action Plan to research the effectiveness of the use of ICT in improving the life of older people at home, in the workplace and in society in general. “Ageing Well in the Information Society” is a new research project, aimed at ensuring that by […]
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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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Chesterfield Foundation Trust gets SRC digital dictation
SRC has won a European public procurement to provide a trust-wide digital dictation and workflow management solution to Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The trust, which serves the North Derbyshire area, is installing the WinScribe digital dictation solution, for use by clinical and management staff to improve medical record keeping and document production. SRC […]
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