Digital hospital
EHI looks at how a futuristic hospital in Norway can show what benefits an integrated approach to communications can bring to patient care.
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iSoft’s Lorenzo hits new highs in benchmarks
Manchester based health software firm iSoft has announced that its Lorenzo healthcare solution has hit new benchmark highs in handling simultaneous transactions and concurrent users. In the benchmark tests, carried out with HP, Microsoft and Intel, Lorenzo was said to have handled six million ‘real’ transactions an hour for 25,000 concurrent users. The benchmark was […]
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Cash injection
After GE’s purchase of IDX, are more medical systems companies eyeing up the healthcare IT market? Industry analyst James MacPherson investigates.
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Digital pen makes light work of filling out care forms
A digital pen and paper system that records handwriting for ‘playback’ into text could be a boon for healthcare workers and cut down on data entry, according to the manufacturers. The HP Forms Automation System (HP FAS, right) looks exactly like a pen, but when used on a special preprinted form, can create completed forms in PDF format or text through handwriting recognition […]
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Plymouth moves to IP telephony
NHS organisations in Plymouth are beginning the roll-out of one of the largest Internet Protocol (IP)-based telephone implementations yet seen in the NHS, in a move that should deliver £600,000 in savings. The Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust (PHNT) and Plymouth Teaching Primary Care Trust have signed a ten-year £1.2 million deal with Mitel and HP […]
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Partnership may make e-health widely available in US
Allscripts, whose strategic partners include HP and Microsoft, has just announced a new link with US-based clinical directory Medem which it hopes will help the rollout of e-health services such as e-prescribing nationwide. Medem, which was founded in 1999, provides secure online communications and integrated web-services to patients and family physicians, and is available online in […]
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Analysts speculate on LSP contract awards
A US market analyst report obtained by E-Health Insider predicts that clinical applications vendor Cerner will win two of the Local Service Provider (LSP) contracts about to be awarded by the National Programme for IT (NPfIT), with two more going to iSoft, and one to IDX. Overall the 11 November SunTrust Robinson Humphrey document, suggests that […]
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InterSystems Demonstrates Scalability of Primary Care Systems
Database systems supplier InterSystems, has announced that it has carried out successful scalability tests of its CACHÉ database product in collaboration with primary care clinical systems supplier EMIS to demonstrate how primary care electronic records can be scaled to a national-scale system with a small hardware footprint. The scalability tests were based on demonstrating how […]
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iSOFT Demonstrates 10,000 Concurrent Users
UK health IT firm iSOFT, has announced that in conjunction with HP and Microsoft it has completed benchmark tests of its electronic patient record (EPR) system, with up to 10,000 concurrent users. The benchmark tests were performed on iSOFT’s EPR application software (i.EPR) and achieved sub-second transaction response times. This benchmark, one of the largest […]
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