New IT hardware framework ‘could save NHS £250m’
The Digital Workplace: Hardware Framework is designed to help NHS and public sector organisations purchase cost-effective IT hardware.
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IT failure causes major disruption at Mid Yorks Hospitals
A network hardware failure has caused major disruption to hit The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
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£500m Health IT infrastructure framework awarded
Thirteen suppliers have been picked as part of a £500 million health IT framework covering more than 80 NHS organisations.
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Eight in ten NHS desktops still on XP
Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows XP in April next year looks set to cause significant problems for the NHS, with a major new EHI Intelligence report finding that 85% of desktops are still using the obsolete OS.
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E-prescribing tablet at Heart of England
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has bought 100 Panasonic Toughbook tablet computers as part of its roll out of e-prescribing.
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ANS Group installs NetApp for Coventry
Coventry and Warwickshire IT Collaborative has been working with ANS Group to improve its disaster recovery capability. The organisation, which serves NHS Coventry and Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust, contracted the group to deliver a NetApp storage area network. This will improve capacity and resilience at its two data centres in Coventry and Nuneaton, […]
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West Suffolk to deploy EDM from Kainos
West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust has signed a deal with Kainos to transform more than 40m paper case file pages into electronic documents over the next two years.
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Moving on up
Sarah Bruce visits Birmingham to see how Britain’s newest and biggest hospital is planning to use IT.
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Berkshire to save £150k with NHSmail
Berkshire Shared Services has completed the migration of all its GP practices to NHSmail, resulting in an expected cost saving of £150,000.
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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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