Team of the Year
Team of the year at last year’s BT e-Health Insider awards was won by NHS Pathways. The runners up in the category sponsored by NHS Connecting for Health were teams from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.
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BT e-Health Insider Awards 2008: the finalists
iSoft become Sentillion’s first UK partner
iSoft has signed an agreement with US-based single sign-on specialist Sentillion, to become its first healthcare channel partner in Europe. Sentillion provides single sign-on (SSO), context management, and user provisioning technologies. As a result of the deal, iSoft will offer NHS trusts the opportunity to purchase new SSO technology with its software, enabling staff to […]
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Connected Santa comes to Great Ormond St.
Cisco made a few Christmas dreams come true at Great Ormond Street this week, bringing Santa Claus to the playroom.
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ExpreSSO promises faster route to single sign-on
Healthcare access and identity management specialists, Sentillion, today launched a ‘plug and go’ single sign-on (SSO) solution called ExpreSSO. Sentillion bills ExpreSSO as offering fast access to a remedy for multiple sign-ons. Healthcare staff frequently complain about having to memorise multiple passwords to access different applications within their hospital system. Resetting forgotten passwords can be […]
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Human change the ‘greatest challenge’ for NHS IT
Achieving changes in human processes to accommodate the IT revolution is perhaps the greatest challenge to the successful implementation of improvements in the quality and efficiency of healthcare, senior NHS figures say in an article published this week. Otherwise, manual processes will simply be replaced with digital ones, they warn. In a commentary article in the Journal of the […]
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CSC takes charge of seven ‘out of cluster’ trusts
Computer Sciences Corporation, the local service provider for the North-west and West Midlands is to take over responsibility for the seven ‘out of cluster’ NHS trusts, who had installed iSoft systems ahead of the NHS IT programme. The deal for the seven trusts in London and the South of England potentially sets the precedent for […]
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iBase medical image software under new management
New media company Waba Logic has announced the acquisition of the iBase Image System Medical Image Manager, which is in use by 23 NHS trust departments. iBase allows clinicians to view medical photographs over a web browser wherever they are, and was developed three years ago in association with clinicians at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, Birmingham Children’s […]
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Great Ormond Street selects JAC for drug management
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has signed a contract with JAC Computer Services, a division of US-based Mediware Information Systems, for the provision of medicine management software. The contract will deliver a computerised medicines management system to support the delivery of clinical-care processes associated with the prescribing and administration of medicines to children. […]
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Great Ormond Street selects Tomcat for cardiac system
Belfast-based Tomcat Clinical Systems, the supplier of specialist Cardiac Information Systems has signed a contract with London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children to supply a paediatric Cardiac Information System. The TOMCAT system manages the information relating to all aspects of a patient’s cardiac treatment and is now in use in hospitals across the UK […]
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