EHI’s industry news roundup 01.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 1 February 2008, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and appointments. Supplier news King Fahd Medical City uses Orion’s Rhapsody The King Fahd Medical City (KFMC) in Saudi Arabia has adopted the Rhapsody Integration Engine to provide faster and more reliable communication between its computer […]
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BT deploys Picis theatre system to six London trusts
BT has successfully completed its deployment of Picis theatre systems to six hospital trusts in London under the National Programme for IT. Announced last year, BT had signed an agreement with specialist developer, Picis, to deliver new operating theatre management systems to six hospital trusts, under agreement by Connecting for Health. Since then, BT has […]
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CfH benefits bigger than problems
The new NHS computer system is fraught with problems but offers huge benefits if clinicians play a greater role in its creation, says Dr Henry Dowlen.
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Ben Bradshaw becomes minister for NHS IT
The Department of Health has announced that Ben Bradshaw, Labour MP for Exeter, will be the new minister responsible for the National Programme for IT. Bradshaw replaces Lord Hunt, as minister of state for health services. Lord Hunt replaced Lord Warner as the minister responsible for NHS IT and Connecting For Health in January after returning […]
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Hunt spells out local ownership moves
Health minister, Lord Hunt, who was responsible for setting up the National Programme for IT, has defended its strongly centralised initial approach but made plain that the future lies with local ownership. Speaking to the opening session of the Healthcare Computing 2007 conference in Harrogate, Lord Hunt, back at the Department of Health after a […]
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Foul weather friends on hand for COPD patients
NHS Direct, the Met Office and Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale Primary Care Trust are collaborating on a new project to help thousands of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in times of bad weather. COPD is one of the most common respiratory diseases in the UK causing 30,000 deaths a year. In bad weather, […]
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Ealing PCT uses text message technology
Ealing Primary Care Trust has launched a mobile phone text message appointment reminder service for 130,000 patients attending 22 of its surgeries. The technology behind the service is being provided using the Patient Care Messaging (PCM) application supplied by mobile healthcare applications specialist iPlato. The company already provides a range of text appointment reminder services […]
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Lewisham PCT chooses iPlato for SMS reminders
A primary care trust is hoping to reduce missed GP practice appointments by 25% in a year with the aid of a text messaging service. Lewisham PCT has signed a deal with mobile healthcare applications specialist iPlato to use its Patient Care Messaging solution for patients at seven surgeries across the trust. Patients will be […]
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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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Younger people more likely to use mobile healthcare
Younger people are more likely to call NHS Direct on their mobiles than make an appointment to see their GP, a study by Imperial College supported by Vodafone has revealed. The paper, one of several in a series of essays published by Vodafone entitled ‘The Role of Mobile Phones in Increasing Accessibility and Efficiency […]
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