ComMedica and Capula announce PACS alliance
ComMedica and Capula have announced a formal alliance to deliver a joint, Web-based picture archiving and communications system (PACS) offering to the NHS. An announcement on the future shape of PACS procurements in England is expected later this month. Each of the five local service providers around the country has been asked to submit their proposals for […]
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Walsall and Orion work on heart failure pathways
Walsall Primary Care Trust and Orion Systems have been chosen to produce a national demonstrator system for the electronic support of care delivery to heart failure patients. The development follows on from previous successful collaborations on IT to support the coronary heart disease national service framework (NSF) pathways for myocardial infarction and stroke rehabilitation. The […]
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Primary care IT Manhattan style
Andrew Harrison, whose career change took him from computer programming to hospital medicine, continues his occasional series with some notes from a recent trip to the US where he visited a practice renowned for its celebrity patients and dynamic IT. I have often wondered how America medical practices compare to those in the UK with […]
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Casualty Plus opens with TrakHealth
To contact Casualty Plus, call 08456 777 999. E-Health Insider is a news organisation and is not connected to Casualty Plus. London’s private ‘casualty’ centre, launched this month by Casualty Plus, incorporates a fully integrated electronic clinical and administration system supplied by Australian health IT supplier, TrakHealth. The MedTrak system installed at the centre in […]
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Placing XML at the Heart of Hospital Trust’s IM&T Strategy
Following E-Health Insider s XML in health feature two week s ago, Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, sets out how his trust has used XML to develop extremely low cost ‘best of breed’ solutions to integrate systems and improve clinical care. Information Technology at Wrightington, Wigan & […]
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HL7 Awards iSOFT ‘Benefactor’ Status
UK health IT applications developer iSOFT has been awarded ‘Benefactor’ status, the highest level of accreditation provided by Health Level Seven (HL7), the healthcare data standards body. The accreditation recognises iSOFT’s commitment to the development of interoperability standards, vital to meet the requirements specified by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). iSOFT becomes one of […]
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New Forum to Support Interoperability Standards
A new Health Care Interoperability Forum (HCIF) has been set up to actively support the design of interoperability standards covering over 90 data flows which occur in the patient’s journey through the UK health system. The forum says its members are drawn from all the leading GP, out of hours and NHS Direct system suppliers […]
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Cardiff to be Oracle Healthcare Customer Advisor
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust will be a key Customer Advisor in Oracle Corporation’s development of a web-based, patient-centred healthcare information system based on its leading e-business suite. The Oracle Healthcare integrated solution is intended to help provide improved efficiency, cost-effectiveness and quality of care to hospitals and other care delivery organisations by consolidating clinical, […]
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