Leicester uses FrontRange for SAM
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has bought 8,000 FrontRange SAM Suite licences to improve control of its IT inventory. Technical security specialist David Rose it became interested in software asset management after it learned about NHS Connecting for Health’s National Infrastructure Maturity Model (NIMM) and how it affected access to licences in Microsoft’s Enterprise Agreement […]
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Virtualisation at Epsom and St Helier
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is using virtualisation for its print servers and infrastructure management, and has plans to extend virtualisation to its web and application servers. At a Hewlett Packard virtualisation round table this week, Malcolm Flier, the trust’s head of support services, said the main drivers for the move had […]
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Behind the scenes of an EPR deployment: part two
In July, E-Health Insider visited Benenden Hospital in Kent, as it prepared to deploy an Oasis electronic patient record system. Barry Murphy provides a progress update.
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Foundation trusts tender outside NPfIT
E-Health Insider has learned that just a month after the publication of the Health Informatics Review, a number of NHS foundation trusts have begun to move to non-National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust have seperately placed advertisements for electronic patient record systems […]
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Infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare has published its infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales. The first edition covers networking, user access devices, servers and storage, messaging and collaboration, directory and voice services. In each case, the strategy describes the current position, the strategic aim and the next steps towards achieving this aim. However, Informing Healthcare says the resources needed […]
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Yorkshire HIS audits software assets electronically
The Health Informatics Service, which provides IT services to 12 healthcare organisations across South West Yorkshire, can now electronically audit all the software and devices in its area, using the Centennial SAM.Suite. IM&T portfolio manager, Neil Asling, told E-Health Insider that manual audits were taking engineers weeks to complete and the service was unable to […]
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EHI’s news roundup 21.07.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week beginning 21 July 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Poole to deploy Alcatel-Lucent wireless network Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Dorset is deploying an Alcatel-Lucent Wireless Local Area Network to help improve patient care at its 789-bed hospital. The […]
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Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare Professionals conference
Julie Tindale, NHS CFH national clinical lead for midwifery, and Barbara Stuttle, national clinical lead for nursing, outline their roles at the event.
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North East Wales switches on Myrddin PAS
The North East Wales NHS Trust has successfully gone live with its new patient administration system (PAS), Myrddin. The £1m Myrddin PAS system, which replaces an iSoft system, first went live on Monday 19 May. A trust spokesperson told E-Health Insider: “Myrddin is performing as expected and there have been no other significant problems. Most […]
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