Ashton, Leigh and Wigan to virtualise server
Ashton, Leigh & Wigan PCT has appointed CSA Waverley to deliver a major project to virtualise server and storage environments as part of a long term vision to build an independent disaster recovery site. CSA Waverley says the system aims to reduce the organisation’s hard server estate by 90%. ALW wanted a more agile server […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 25.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 25 January 2008 featuring supplier news, events, product launches and company collaborations. Supplier news Pharmacy Compliance Monitored Using Wireless Sensors Adaptive Wireless Solutions has supplied a wireless sensor network system to Facility Monitoring Systems as part of a multi-area pharmacy clean room, stores and packing […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 02.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 2 November, featuring supplier news, implementations, product launches, awards and events. Supplier News Spire Healthcare take over BUPA hospitals Spire Healthcare, the new independent healthcare group, formerly BUPA hospitals, is planning to grow its business as it builds on its position as a leading player […]
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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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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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Caresteam completes PACS rollout in Paris
Carestream Health has completed a Euros 8m project to install PACS across 20 sites of the Assistance Publique Des Hopitaux De Paris (APHP), a French public healthcare group. The group wanted to move away from old film techniques and move to digital imaging in as many of their sites as possible. After going out to […]
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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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Health IT administrator charged with planting ‘logic bomb’
A former systems administrator in the US has been arrested by the FBI and charged after placing a ‘logic bomb’ on a computer network that held patient prescription information. Yung-Hsun Lin, 50, of Montville, New Jersey was last month charged with two counts of computer fraud after it was discovered he had placed the malware […]
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Map of Medicine to pilot PDA access
Map of Medicine are to pilot a PDA-based version of their evidence-based clinical pathway information system for the first time in the UK. In July, the company developed a PDA version that featured seven pathways of care, called the Mobile Map of Medicine, in Kenya. The company is now about to launch the pilot version […]
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NI to link barcodes on prescriptions to EPRs
The Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland has announced it has signed a £6.8m contract with Hewlett Packard to provide it with bar-coded prescriptions in an effort to counter fraud. The new Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES) will be rolled out over the next two years. Paper prescriptions will […]
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