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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Agfa delivers PACS to the private sector
Agfa Healthcare have announced two new contracts with private hospital chains to install their Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) software, IMPAX 6.2. The Belgian-based image-specialists have confirmed that they will be delivering the PACS system along with other medical imaging systems to both the Nuffield Hospitals group and the Classic Hospitals group. Nuffield Hospitals […]
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Kodak Health Group sold to Canadian buyer
Eastman Kodak announced today that it has agreed to sell the Kodak Health Group, which includes its medical imaging and healthcare software business, to Onex Healthcare Holdings in a deal worth up to $2.55 billion (£1.31 billion). Onex is one of Canada’s largest corporations; it describes itself as a diversified company with global operations in […]
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Kodak announces mammography archive partnership
Kodak has announced a partnership with the US-based National Digital Medical Archive (NDMA) to create new solutions enabling hospitals to better manage, archive and process images and information related to mammography screening. The aim of the collaboration is to “support the European mammography market’s transition from analog imaging to digital imaging and information technology.” The […]
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2006 – a curate’s egg for Connecting for Health
E-Health Insider cuts through the statistics to offer a snapshot of progress on ongoing efforts to digitise the NHS in England. Whatever happened to the NHS Care Record Service? 2006 may well be seen as the year Connecting for Health (CfH) and its prime contractors failed to deliver on their promise of next generation integrated […]
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Kodak to implement PACS in Tuscany
Kodak has agreed a five year deal worth €20m to install its Carestream software in the south-east region of Tuscany, Italy. Carestream PACS and information management solutions will be deployed in 14 hospitals, allowing them to centrally archive, view and manage the records of over 800,000 patients. The hospitals handle over a million radiological examinations […]
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Disk imaging for largest NI community trust
The largest community trust in Northern Ireland, Homefirst Community Health and Social Services Trust, has installed the Universal Imaging Utility (UIU) software distribution system from Big Bang LLC. Homefirst, which covers 100 health and social care facilities, 300,000 people and employs 5000 staff, installed the software to make it easier to distribute patches and updates […]
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More delays likely in PAS rollout, says Granger
A combination of the NHS’s financial troubles and problems with software, means that the installation of new patient administration systems in hospitals is likely to be further delayed, Connecting for Health chief executive, Richard Granger says in an interview. He admits that London’s local service provider, BT, is having difficulties finding any hospital in the […]
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Nuffield aims for ‘paperless’ hospital finance
Nuffield hospitals, the UK independent hospitals group, has signed a contract with document management specialists Version One to implement its electronic form design, automated document delivery and electronic payment technologies across its 40 hospitals. The Version One software will replace Nuffield’s current manual processes, which involves signing and posting cheques with hard-copy remittance advices, and […]
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EuroKing launches Miracle in Scotland
Maternity information systems suppliers EuroKing has partnered with bms (Scotland) Ltd in a bid to get the company’s Miracle system used more widely in Scotland following a recent NHS announcement changing the way maternity scans take place in the country. Scotland’s NHS Quality Improvement Board has recommended that by 2007 every pregnant woman in Scotland should be offered […]
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