Kodak implements PACS at Chesterfield in 11 weeks
Kodak Health Imaging has announced that it has successfully installed an end-to-end digital image management solution, comprising capture, print, distribution, storage and service solutions in just 11 weeks. In February Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital NHS Trust awarded Kodak a contract to install an integrated image and information management solution at Chesterfield Royal Hospital […]
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ComMedica integrates RIS and medical imaging
ComMedica Limited, the web-based clinical information and PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) software vendor, has launched its new Integrated PACS (I-PACS) solution, combining medical imaging with radiology information system (RIS) technology. I-PACS is said to offer hospitals a cost effective software package that allows them to manage the entire process of patient care, from […]
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Newcastle Hospitals awards Ferrania RIS/PACS contract
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has completed a pilot procurement of community-wide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) and Radiology Information Systems (RIS), in a move designed to provide a template for National programme for IT (NPfIT) procurements in PACS/RIS systems. After a competitive procurement the trust has awarded Ferrania UK’s LifeImaging division a […]
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Electronic Prescription Transfers Added to Data Spine
Digital imaging and electronic transfer of prescriptions are the two major new applications added to the new expanded Output Based Specification (OBS2) for Integrated Care Records Services (ICRS) and the national data spine. The weighty new documents describe a considerably thicker national ‘data spine’, with additional features and clinical functionality delivered at an early stage. […]
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University College London Hospitals Announces PACS Deal
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a deal with Agfa Healthcare to provide a Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) for online X-ray images. The first phase of implementation will see the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery become the first fully filmless hospital in the Trust. It will also see PACS introduced […]
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Medical Technology Aids Search for Queen Nefertiti
Medical imaging experts from Xograph Imaging Systems helped the Discovery Channel and a team of Egyptologists to take digital x-ray images of a mummy believed to be the legendary Egyptian beauty, Queen Nefertiti, stepmother of Tutankhamun. The latest portable x-ray devices and healthcare IT workstations were used inside a hidden chamber in Egypt’s Valley of […]
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Internet Consultations Contribute to Patient Care
Internet consultations between consultants at centres of excellence and referring doctors can contribute to patient care by generating suggestions for new treatments and providing timely access to specialist knowledge, a US study suggests. The researchers at Partners Telemedicine in Boston, writing in the British Medical Journal, evaluated a service called Partners Online Specialty Consultations that […]
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Dudley Chooses Siemens for PACS
Siemens Medical Solutions have been awarded the contract to provide the latest imaging and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) technology for Dudley Hospital NHS Trust’s new PFI-build hospital currently under construction. Siemens Healthcare Services is the managed technology service provider for the 40-year PFI contract. Acting on behalf of the trust the company managed […]
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10 Ways To Improve NHS IT – a Hospital Doctor’s View
Hospital doctor, Andrew Harrison, worked in IT before studying medicine. His unusual background prompted E-Health Insider to ask him to list the top 10 improvements he would like to see in healthcare IT. Read on for the result… Until the age of 29 I was a computer programmer working in the City. Then I decided […]
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ComMedica Wins European Innovation Award
Innovative UK-based health IT firm ComMedica’s PIRILIS clinical information software has won the ‘best software Innovation’ category at the European Innovation Awards 2002, beating off competition from 20 other entrants from across Europe. A panel of independent judges singled ComMedica out from among competing entries after considering the extent to which the entrants’ ideas, methods […]
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