Pay-as-you-examine PACS deal for Finland
Kodak has agreed a three year pay-as-you-examine partnership for picture archiving and web-viewing services in the South-west Finland Hospital District for the four hospitals and 24 municipalities in the Satakunta region. Eastman Kodak Health Group will deploy its Carestream PACS and information management solutions to the 28 sites, allowing them to centrally archive, view and […]
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Cerner switches on at St James, Dublin
A new Cerner system at St. James Hospital, Dublin, the Republic of Ireland’s largest hospital, combines data, imaging, orders and results and establishes the foundation for a full electronic patient record. Cerner says patient care will benefit from the successful switch-on of what it describes as a landmark system that unites diverse and complex computer […]
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PACS passes halfway stage in London and South
The programme to deploy Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) in London and the South of England has passed the halfway stage. The milestone was passed 16 months after the first PACS from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) went live in the London cluster. Some 33 trusts have now rolled out PACS in the two […]
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Healthy optimism?
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT’s progress, and how far it covers clinicians’ concerns.
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Crossroads for Kodak
Jon Hoeksma talks to Kevin Hobert, senior vice president at Eastman Kodak Company and president of the Health group, about Kodak’s future plans.
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Heart of England procures independently on PACS
Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in Birmingham has gone outside the nationally negotiated NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contract to tender for a full digital imaging solution comprising picture archive and communications system (PACS). Earlier this month the trust has placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for PACS, […]
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GE signs to provide PACS in North West and West Midlands
Computer Sciences Corporation has today announced that it has reached agreement with NHS Connecting for Health to sign with GE Healthcare and Healthcare Software Systems to provide picture archiving and communications systems and radiology information systems to the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS. Through NHS National Programme for IT prime contractor Fujitsu, GE […]
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Companies gear up for interoperability marathon
Two hundred and fifty representatives of seventy healthcare IT companies will gather in Barcelona next week for the 6th annual European “Connectathon” – a week-long event devoted to the quest for interoperability. As its name suggests, the meeting is a ‘connectivity marathon’ where companies will take advantage of the opportunity to test their products in what […]
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Delays confirmed for PACS in NWWM
NHS Connecting for Health has acknowledged that the North West and West Midlands region will miss the March 2007 deadline for picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) to be fully implemented across England. The delay follows the abandonment of the original contractual arrangements for delivering PACS and Radiology Information Systems (RIS) in the region. Asked […]
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Agfa launches mobile version of Impax 6.0 PACS
Agfa has launched an “ultra thin” mobile version of its Impax 6.0 picture archiving and communications system (PACS) which is due to be deployed in NHS trusts in North-east and Eastern England. The mobile solution which promises secure “anywhere access” to patient data and images was unveiled at the Health Information Management Systems Society convention […]
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