Great Ormond Street barcodes wristbands
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has rolled out barcoded wristbands from Dakota Healthcare. The wristband system, which fully integrates with the trust’s existing iSoft iPM patient administration system, and is GS1 standard compliant, provides patient verification including NHS Number, hospital identification number, patient name and date of birth. The trust said that […]
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Digital pathology: present and future
E-Health Insider is holding a round table discussion on digital pathology, sponsored by iSOFT. Daloni Carlise reports on the issues for debate.
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EHI’s industry round up 30.06.2010
This month’s industry round-up reports on contract signings and industry awards; with iSoft and Carestream Health both receiving Frost and Sullivan recognition for key products. Simpl creates testing framework Healthcare IT advisor and integrator Simpl has created a software application development testing framework for Informing Healthcare, the NHS technology programme in Wales. The testing framework […]
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INPS and EMIS plan gateway
Healthcare IT system suppliers INPS and EMIS have announced that they have formed a 50:50 joint venture to implement an interoperability gateway.
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EMIS and System C link up at Aintree
Primary care IT supplier EMIS and secondary care supplier System C have announced that University Hospital Aintree has gone live with a system to give its urgent care clinicians access to information held in GP systems.
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Hello Goodbye
Lyn Whitfield reports from Liverpool on an NHS Confederation conference pre-occupied by the entrance and exit of GP commissioning and primary care trusts.
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NHS Bury yet to sign-off on Lorenzo
NHS Bury has yet to sign-off on its deployment of Lorenzo Release 1.9, seven months after the system went live at the north west primary care trust.
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Intellect: ‘cuts mean IT investment’
The chair of Intellect’s Health Group, Jeremy Nettle, has told E-Health Insider he expects increased investment in health IT in response to the £20 billion of efficiency savings that need to be made by the NHS.
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Microsoft launches HealthVault in UK
Microsoft has launched its personal health record platform in the UK on the Health and Lifestyle channel of the MSN network.
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InterSystems triumphs in Welsh labs deal
InterSystems is set to be confirmed as the winner of a national contract to provide a new laboratory information management system across Wales.
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