High Demand for Tablets Predicted in Health
Last week saw the international launch of Microsoft’s Tablet PC software and a series of tablet and slate-style devices by leading hardware manufacturers. Microsoft has high hopes for the Tablet PC, arguing that it will transform the way we work, collaborate and use computers. Microsoft’s public sector industry manager Jenny Duff told E-Health Insider that […]
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Panther Takes Aim at Citrix in Health
The DAT Group has launched to the healthcare market Panther Server 2002, as an affordable alternative to Citrix Metaframe, and has appointed Centrom as its exclusive partner for the healthcare IT market. Like Citrix, Panther is a new Enterprise Management Platform for remotely delivering and managing Windows-based applications to client desktops across a network. Leading […]
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Three London Trusts Sign £5m Deal with iSOFT
NHS trusts in South East London’s Lambeth Lewisham and Southwark Collaboration have signed three contracts worth £5m with healthcare applications systems supplier, iSOFT. The three trusts involved – Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Trusts and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust – will use iSOFT’s Patient Management System (PiMS). The eight year […]
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Luton & Dunstable Recognised for EPR Work
The Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust has been recognised in this year’s Public Private Finance Awards for the first stage of its Electronic Patient Record (EPR) project. The award was made to Luton & Dunstable and software supplier iSOFT in the category of best operational project under £20 million. Luton & Dunstable were nominated […]
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South Staffs Launches Community-wide Electronic Records
South Staffordshire Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with an enterprise-wide, patient information system, PiMS, which provides staff with real time patient information. Supplied by iSOFT the system provides the trusts 3,500 clinicians with access to the computerised details and clinical information of all patients within the 0.5 million local population. The PiMS patient record […]
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iSOFT Acquires Northgate Healthcare Business
Fast growing UK Health IT firm iSOFT has announced that it has agreed to buy rival Northgate Healthcare Business from Northgate for £33 million in cash. The Northgate Healthcare Business is a leading UK vendor of electronic patient record information systems to the acute sector of the NHS. According to iSOFT the acquisition will make […]
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ISOFT Boss Predicts Further Industry Consolidation
One of the key features of the new emerging national strategy on NHS IT will be the selection of preferred suppliers for key systems. Ken Jacobson, European CEO of iSOFT , one of the largest UK-based health IT firms, gave E-Health Insider his perspective on how the supplier market can help the NHS achieve its […]
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Path Links Contract Awarded to iSOFT
Path Links, the pioneering integrated pathology programme in Greater Lincolnshire, has placed the largest ever UK contract for Pathology Laboratory Information Management Systems with iSOFT for its APEX system. Money for the multi-million pound contract has come from the government’s pathology modernisation fund. APEX will be rolled out as one complete integrated system serving five […]
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iSOFT Appoints European Chief Executive
Manchester-based health information firm iSOFT Group plc has appointed Ken Jacobson as European Chief Executive, indicating added emphasis on an extended European acquisitions strategy. As European CEO, Jacobson will be responsible for consolidating iSOFT’s position in the development of healthcare information systems and will focus on organic and acquisitive growth across Europe. He takes up […]
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Web-based Clinical Information System Goes Live at Birmingham
Birmingham City Hospital NHS Trust has become the first trust in England to deploy a fully web-based, end-to-end, enterprise-wide clinical system to every desktop in the hospital. The new web-based clinical information system, developed by health IT supplier iSoft builds on early in-house development work carried out by the trust, and is based on the […]
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