Half of C+B hospitals use indirectly bookable services
Over half the hospitals using Choose and Book are using Indirectly Bookable Services (IBS), according to the latest figures from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH). The statistics – which are updated fortnightly – show that out of 25 hospitals using Choose and Book on 26 July, 13 were using IBS, a stand alone interim fix for […]
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Newcastle Hospitals awards Ferrania RIS/PACS contract
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has completed a pilot procurement of community-wide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS), in a move designed to provide a template for National programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements in PACS/RIS systems. After a competitive procurement the trust has awarded Ferrania UK’s LifeImaging division a […]
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Liverpool hospitals praised for “get well soon” e-mails
A scheme which enables friends and relatives to send e-mail greetings to in-patients in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals has been praised by health minister, John Hutton. Hutton described the email service as an “innovative scheme” during his address to a conference in Birmingham this week about the NHS information portal, www.nhs.uk. He […]
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University College London Hospitals Announces PACS Deal
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a deal with Agfa Healthcare to provide a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) for online X-ray images. The first phase of implementation will see the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery become the first fully filmless hospital in the Trust. It will also see PACS introduced […]
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Fife Acute Hospitals Introduce New Network
Fife Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has begun introducing a new Citrix-based IT network across its four main sites. The network, provided by Channel One, a business division of VisionWare Plc, is being administered by Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the project’s prime contractor, and an authorised supplier through the GCAT procurement scheme. Health professionals at Fife will […]
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Plymouth Hospitals Go Live with E-Procurement
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has begun to trade electronically with its suppliers using EROS version 4.4 – the first e-purchasing system in Europe to be developed which includes built in Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) functionality. Plymouth is the first NHS trust that GHX and Crown Agents Purchasing Services (CAPS) have worked together with to provide […]
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Kaiser Hospitals Buys Bankrupt Webvan’s E-commerce Technology
During the dotcom boom, procurement managers in the health sector were told they risked being left behind if they failed to instantly harness the opportunities of e-commerce. But thanks to the continuing dotcom downturn, the more cautious "wait and see" approach adopted by many appears to have paid off, with some healthcare organisations now able […]
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