Casualty Plus opens with TrakHealth
To contact Casualty Plus, call 08456 777 999. E-Health Insider is a news organisation and is not connected to Casualty Plus. London’s private ‘casualty’ centre, launched this month by Casualty Plus, incorporates a fully integrated electronic clinical and administration system supplied by Australian health IT supplier, TrakHealth. The MedTrak system installed at the centre in […]
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UCLH Signs £70m EPR Deal with IDX and Logica
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, has announced a £70 million investment in an Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system, supplied by IDX Systems Corporation in partnership with LogicaCMG. IDX will deliver an integrated IT system called Lastword across the Trust’s eight hospitals. The system will enable UCLH to ensure that its brand new PFI-build hospital on […]
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ICRS Targets “Won’t Be Reached”
A pessimistic view of the chances of hitting targets for getting the Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) up and running emerged with week from an audience poll at the Clinical Information Systems and Electronic Records conference in London. Organisers conceded that the poll returns were a small sample of opinion, but the response was unequivocal: […]
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Reader Comment: Planning… What Planning?
Last week E-Health Insider ran a report on leaked guidance from the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) to chief information officers that there would be no allocations from the national programme to local NHS organisations beyond the current financial year. We asked readers how they are planning for implementation of the NPfIT locally, and what […]
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University College London Hospitals Announces PACS Deal
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a deal with Agfa Healthcare to provide a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) for online X-ray images. The first phase of implementation will see the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery become the first fully filmless hospital in the Trust. It will also see PACS introduced […]
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Placing XML at the Heart of Hospital Trust’s IM&T Strategy
Following E-Health Insider s XML in health feature two week s ago, Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, sets out how his trust has used XML to develop extremely low cost ‘best of breed’ solutions to integrate systems and improve clinical care. Information Technology at Wrightington, Wigan & […]
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Kwo Aims to Make London World’s Best Health System
Everyone needs a goal. David Kwo, the man responsible for delivering 21st century IT to the NHS in London, certainly has one. It’s nothing less that to make London “the leading metropolitan health system globally.” Interviewed by E-Health Insider as the selection process for the three shortlisted LSPs for London – consortia led by IBM, […]
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iSOFT Demonstrates 10,000 Concurrent Users
UK health IT firm iSOFT, has announced that in conjunction with HP and Microsoft it has completed benchmark tests of its electronic patient record (EPR) system, with up to 10,000 concurrent users. The benchmark tests were performed on iSOFT’s EPR application software (i.EPR) and achieved sub-second transaction response times. This benchmark, one of the largest […]
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XML Special Focus:Bridging the Gap Between Existing Systems
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust is the largest post-graduate specialist heart and lung centre in the United Kingdom. The trust was established in 1998 following the merger of Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield Hospital and is based on two sites, one in Chelsea, London and one near Uxbridge, Middlesex. The merger brought with it […]
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Torex Acquires Civica’s Health Division
Torex, the UK provider of healthcare information systems, has announced that it has acquired the operating theatre management and anaesthesia systems business, from Civica. The acquisition, for £1.4 million in cash, continues Torex’s expansion of its clinical systems portfolio, and is being funded by the balance of the proceeds of the Placing announced on 19 […]
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