North Mersey looks beyond iPM
North Mersey Health Informatics Service is preparing to deploy Lorenzo Regional Care next year, having successfully rolled out one of its predecessors across two primary care trusts. The HIS has been delivering iSoft’s iPM – which is known locally as Lorenzo – to services run by Liverpool Primary Care Trust and NHS Sefton. The phased […]
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Insider View: Michael Cross
The Database Report had some great points to make. Pity they were hidden by its errors, says Michael Cross.
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Over here
Is Cerner Millennium over big, over corporate and over hard to deploy? Or is it a great system that just needs time and investment ? Neil Versel reports.
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Connelly to open HC2009 in Harrogate
The British Computer Society has confirmed Christine Connelly and Martin Bellamy as key speakers at its HC2009 event. Christine Connelly, chief information officer for health, will be opening the three day event, which takes place 28-30 April in Harrogate. Connelly is expected to address health informatics in a broad sense, including how it affects policy […]
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Vascular pods from Telehealth Solutions
Telehealth Solutions has developed a series of ‘pods’ or touch-screen devices that it says can be used to support the national vascular checks programme. The government announced last year that it would begin rolling-out free vascular screening for 40-74 year-olds in April 2009. Primary Care Trusts have been told to develop their own informatics solutions to support […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 19.03.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. SpeechMagic rolled out at HCA International Nuance Communications has announced that its SpeechMagic technology is being rolled out across the private healthcare group, HCA International. With two-thirds of the roll-out complete, 96% of dictations are being […]
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Agfa starts roll out in Basque region
Agfa IMPAX 6 PACS Agfa Healthcare has announced that it has successfully deployed the first phase of its imaging and informatics solution to the Basque region of Spain. It has deployed the solution across seven of the 28 Osakidetza facilities run by the Basque Health Service. Agfa was selected in 2007 to install its IMPAX […]
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Choose and stuck
Choose and Book usage is stuck at around 50%. Are there fundamental problems with the electronic booking system?
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
A shake-up at the top of NHS IT will see power shift from NHS Connecting for Health to Whitehall, says E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma.
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CfH stripped of key roles and reorganised
In a major shake-up of health service IT, key leadership roles are to be moved directly to the Department of Health.
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