Picis expands presence in Europe
Picis, a providers of acute information systems, has announced a further five deals in Europe in the first quarter of this year. The company have been working in Europe for almost 15 years now and now has their systems used by more than 1000 hospitals in 19 European countries. Picis’s executive vice president of global […]
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Portugal launches health advice helpline
The Portuguese National Health Service has launched a new national health helpline, which will use the same technology as the NHS Direct helpline covering England and Wales. Saúde 24 (Health 24) is the most recent initiative of the Portuguese health department and aims to provide information and advice to citizens who call in with health queries. […]
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Carestream and Hitachi create clinical data store
Carestream Health and Hitachi Data Systems have announced they have collaborated to create a powerful data management solution that will help enable healthcare organisations to efficiently archive clinical information from multiple systems over extended periods of time. The new solution, which is able to handle multiple data types including patient records and diagnostic images, will be […]
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Initiate signs agreement with SQLI Groupe
Initiate Systems, the supplier of patient data management and enterprise master patient index solutions, has announced a new strategic agreement with French healthcare identity management specialists SQLI Groupe. SQLI Groupe is one of the main suppliers in the French market who have been helping with the national and regional electronic health records (EHR) strategies. The agreement will […]
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Italy develops chronic disease tools
The Italian health service is aiming to make use of its IT to create an integrated tool to improve care for people with chronic conditions, a Ministry of Health official has announced. The ministry’s general director for information systems, Walter Bergamaschi told the recent World Health Congress in Barcelona that elderly people required a different mix […]
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Trafford enables GPs and hospitals to share EPR
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has developed a new electronic patient record system with assistance from software developers, Graphnet Health, and booking specialists, Ultragenda. The new system collects and shares information across the local health community and works alongside the trusts’ existing iSoft Patient Administration System. Trafford’s head of IM&T, John Bain, told E-Health Insider: “We […]
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Nuffield Hospitals sign for Initiate EMPI
Initiate Systems has been awarded a contract to build an Enterprise Master Patient Index which will enable staff at Nuffield Hospitals around the country to integrate data from their existing systems and create a single record for each patient. As revealed by E-Health Insider in January, Nuffield Hospitals will have Agfa Healthcare’s IMPAX 6.2 Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) […]
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Nuffield Hospitals invest in new Dell hardware
Nuffield Hospitals group has replaced its entire desktop infrastructure with a new set of 3,500 new desktop PCs provided by Dell. The private hospital group, which has 40 hospitals in England and Scotland, made the investment after deciding its existing infrastructure had reached end-of-life and required replacement. Nuffield’s general manager for IT service management, Iain […]
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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals to deploy PACS
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have announced that they are launching a £13m project to deploy PACS in its two hospitals. The new digital imaging service, to be delivered by the Foundation trust’s local service provider, CSC, will provide the trust with high quality digital x-rays and radiological images, such as CT scans. The […]
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Nuffield Hospitals begin rollout of direct Choose and Book
The Nuffield Hospitals group have gone live with the directly bookable NHS Choose and Book system at its site in Plymouth. The group spent nine months liaising and testing the system with the assistance of Connecting for Health (CfH) and iSoft and successfully deployed the system last month. Nuffield have installed the system in their […]
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