Siemens wins South African Soarian deal
Siemens Healthcare has won an €18m deal to provide 37 hospitals and 300 clinics in South Africa with its Soarian MedSuite healthcare IT software.
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Caring, sharing
Individual hospitals have PACS in place: but whatever happened to image sharing? Linda Davidson and Daloni Carlisle investigate.
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Ofcom launches 111 consultation
Ofcom has launched a consultation on the use of a national 111 non-emergency number for healthcare. Following the consultation, the Department of Health plans to pilot the new number and to roll the service out across England. Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, will run the consultation from today, looking at use […]
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Docs call for clinical review of NPfIT
The British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting has called for a clinically led review of the National Programme for IT in the NHS and for more action to protect patient privacy.
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DH to review hand-held devices
The Department of Health is to review the market for hand-held devices for community-based staff, with a view to issuing guidance to primary care trusts on what is available. The review was announced in a “progress report” on the final report of Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review of the NHS, which was published a year […]
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We’re getting there…
It’s nine months since Morecambe Bay gave Lorenzo a ‘soft landing’. Sarah Bruce got on the train to see what progress it has made since then.
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Quality counts
The Quality and Outcomes Research Unit at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust was the overall winner in last year’s BT E-Health Insider awards. Daloni Carlisle finds out why.
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Declaration of Rights for health data launched
A high profile coalition of patient advocates, US doctors, software vendors and bloggers have launched a Declaration of Rights for health data, HealthDataRights.org. The new site aims to use social media to build support for increasing patient access to electronic health records. Although launched in the US, HealthDataRights appears universal in its aspirations. The main […]
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Morecambe Bay completes Furness pilot
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust has completed the roll out of iSoft’s Lorenzo electronic patient record at its pilot site at Furness General Hospital. It’s next move will be to pilot Lorenzo on medical wards in Lancaster.
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NHS CfH boss Bellamy to depart
Martin Bellamy, the head of NHS Connecting for Health, is to leave his position as director of programme and systems delivery for a new position at the Cabinet Office.
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