Three Scottish health boards sign PACS deals
Martin Egan signs the Access Agreement with Michael Jackman. Three Scottish health boards have signed access agreements with Carestream Health to install Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), as part of the National Services Scotland contract. NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Borders and NHS Lothian have all signed agreements to install Carestream PACS and information management solutions […]
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Kings College deploys hardware virtualisation
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have implemented a new hardware virtualisation layer to help make integration of its different IT systems faster and more resilient. The trust have updated the perofrmance of their eGate integration engine software with a new HP ProLiant server, equipped with a hardware virtualisation system called QuickTransit, from developers Transitive. The trust’s old […]
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Delays in emergency service radios ’cause for concern’
Concerns have been raised about delays in implementing Airwave radio systems within emergency services in London, to ensure full coverage in the event of a terrorist attack. The London Assembly 7 July Review Committee has warned that London Ambulance Service would be ill prepared for another underground terrorist attack due to continuous postponements of Airwave […]
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ASCC long list published
Connecting for Health has published the long list for its Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) procurement with 116 companies named. The ASCC procurement is intended to establish a series of IT framework contracts that can be used by CfH and other purchasers to a “broad based supplier community”. The IT framework contracts will comprise […]
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Altnagelvin hospital system crashes
Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, Northern Ireland was left unable to make bookings for 48 hours last week due to ‘a combination of hardware and software problems’ with their iSoft patient administration system (PAS). The system could not access the appointments database to make bookings for two days – Wednesday and Thursday – last week, staff […]
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Central Middlesex counts benefits of VoIP
Staff at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, have benefited from a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system from Nortel which has helped reduce call charges and system administration, without needing to change any telephone numbers. The hospital, part of the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, was being redeveloped as part of a Private […]
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Guernsey awards EPR contract to TrakHealth
The Health & Social Services Department of Guernsey has awarded TrakHealth a ten-year deal to provide all healthcare providers on the island with an integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system. The integrated EPR, based on a system called TrakCare, will be used to support the delivery of comprehensive health and social care services to the […]
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Leeds virtualise servers with CSA Waverley
Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has chosen CSA Waverley to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure. CSA Waverley will be installing a new solution to the trust that will consolidate storage to one central location and will virtualise all servers. The aim is to bring business agility and operational efficiencies to the trust. The […]
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Additional suppliers catalogue tender released
Connecting for Health has today issued its tender for bids to join the catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’. The tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for an ‘Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) Framework Agreement’ is open to a maximum of 500 suppliers, for a period of up to four years. […]
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Calderdale and Huddersfield extends home grown PAS
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has extended its existing home grown patient administration system (PAS) from one site to three hospitals in just four months. The trust was able to extend the PAS system which is now used in all areas of the three hospitals using InterSystems Cache integration engine. Previously the foundation trust […]
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