PACS group calls for XDS-I imaging
EHealth Insider Live 2010 has heard an impassioned plea for standards-based interoperability in imaging, as the end of the Department of Health PACS contracts approaches in 2013.
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Birmingham to use Siemens’ Syngo.via
The new Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham will be one of the first in England to implement Siemens’ new Syngo.via imaging software. The new £545m hospital, which will be the largest single-site hospital in the UK, will implement the multi-modality imaging software to compliment its four MRIs, four CT scanners and gamma camera systems. The […]
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Image conscious
Despite the new age of austerity, the PACS/RIS community is looking to future investment, Linda Davidson finds on the eve of UKRC.
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EHI’s industry round up 31.05.2010
This month’s industry round up includes news of the savings that Mid Yorkshire Hospitals is making with a Salford Software identity management solution, new business for Cisco and HD Clinical, and contract wins for providers of e-rostering, asset management and e-learning software. Mid Yorks saves with identity management Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has said […]
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Agfa inks Brazilian digital imaging deal
Agfa HealthCare, has signed an agreement with Brazil’s Fundação Instituto de Pesquisa e Estudo de Diagnóstico por Imagen for the delivery and installation of its digital imaging and healthcare IT solutions across the facility’s 25 sites. The agreement was signed in Brazil the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Filip of Belgium. Financial details of […]
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McKesson wins €40m Irish PACS deal
Ireland’s Health Service Executive has confirmed that it has signed a €40m deal with US healthcare IT company, McKesson, to implement a National Integrated Medical Imaging system to digitise Ireland’s radiological services.
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LSPs receive dozens of default notices
Dozens of default notices have been issued to BT, the local service provider for London, over the past seven months, a parliamentary written answer has revealed. Between 26 August 2009 and 8 March 2010, BT was handed 70 default notices for “critical service level failures” and an additional notice for number of calls answered. CSC, the […]
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EHI’s industry round-up: appointments
This special edition of the EHI industry round-up covers appointments made by major suppliers in the healthcare IT industry and some NHS bodies whose work impacts on it. Dr Mark Ferrar joins GS1 UK board GS1 UK, the global supply chain standards and solutions organisation, has appointed an executive from NHS Connecting for Health to […]
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Siemens wins €50m Iraq contract
Siemens Healthcare has won a contract worth more than €50m to supply diagnostic imaging equipment to around 100 ministry of health hospitals across Iraq. The equipment, which includes magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography, mobile x-rays and mammography systems, is intended to help the earlier detection of diseases. Iraq’s minister of health, Ali Saleh Al […]
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