Royal Devon and Exeter selects System C
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has chosen System C as its supplier for order communications and electronic prescribing, as key elements of a new electronic patient record system.
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Microsoft to buy Sentillion
Microsoft is to buy Sentillion, a specialist in single sign-on technology for the healthcare industry.
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Dell to buy Perot Systems
Dell has launched an agreed offer to buy computer services firm Perot Systems Corp in a cash deal valued at £2.7 billion.
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EHI Awards finalists unveiled
Merseyside chooses JAC for e-prescribing
The North Mersey Health Informatics Service has selected JAC to provide an electronic prescribing and medicines administration system to more than three million patients across Merseyside.
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Alder Hey surveys are Fabio
One of Europe’s largest children’s hospitals has developed an electronic survey system to involve children in their care plans and allow them to rate their experiences.
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EHI’s industry round up 11.09.2009
This edition of E-Health Insider’s industry round-up covers partnerships and new product launches in the healthcare IT market and deployments in the NHS.
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Birmingham uses Websense
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it will implement a complete information protection solution from Websense. The trust will roll-out Websense’s Essential Information Protection portfolio to create an integrated policy-based IT security platform to secure data and protect against Web 2.0 threats from sites such as Twitter. The solution, which was purchased for […]
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Trust stands up to lying down
Seven staff at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been suspended after allegedly taking part in a ‘lying down game’ during a nightshift and posting photographs on Facebook. The Accident and Emergency staff are said to have taken pictures of themselves lying on resuscitation trolleys, ward floors and the trust’s helipad during August. The […]
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Birmingham uses OMNI-Lab for baby tests
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is using a subset of OMNI-Lab to manage the bloodspot screening tests taken from 70,000 newborn infants across the West Midlands each year. The heelprick tests are used to screen for five serious diseases, as part of the UK Newborn Screening Programme, which is carried out by centres of […]
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