Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider’s editor says the Public Accounts Committee’s latest report shows its time to take some tough decisions about NPfIT.
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Community nurses get mobile access to iPM
Community nurses at Wolverhampton Primary Care Trust have gone live with 3G technology that allows them to access its iPM system and record patient activity. A total of 60 nurses working for the community out-of-hours service in Wolverhampton have been given 3G enabled-laptops to enable remote access to the system provided by its local service provider. […]
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South Manchester selects Imprivata for SSO
GE PACS system with Imprivata’s OneSign SSO technology University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has chosen Imprivata OneSign for single sign-on, including fast user switching capabilities. Around 4,500 of the trust’s staff will eventually be given access to the OneSign Platform, which will speed up access to patient information and provide full audit […]
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Leicester implements ‘interim’ order comms
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has carried out the first phase of the deployment of an interim order communications system supplied by iSoft, delivered by Computer Sciences Corporation. The implementation – initially to a small number of wards – is the first time under the National Programme for IT in the NHS that local […]
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Liverpool iPM glitch overbooks some clinics
Problems with a new iSoft iPM patient administration system left some patients at the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust arriving for appointments that staff could no longer find records of having been made. The problems appear to relate issues with migrating appointment data from the trust’s old PAS system leading to appointment […]
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Humber first mental health trust to use SystmOne
Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has become the first trust in the country to deploy the SystmOne Mental Health system, delivered by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as part of the NHS National Programme for IT. Using SystmOne, ninety care practitioners working at the in-patient unit at the Townend Court learning disabilities […]
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Spine problems force trusts to switch off CRS
Trusts across England were forced to switch off their connection to the Personal Demographics Service, after a weekend upgrade led to the system suffering from ‘intermittent problems’ leading some to stop using their electronic record systems. The weekend upgrade, called Spine release 2008-A, was a major upgrade to the Spine PDS service. The PDS is […]
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IBA boss says corner turned on iSoft
Six months after his company bought iSoft, Gary Cohen, chairman of Australia’s IBA Health, speaks to E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 09.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 9 May 2008 featuring supplier news, appointments and awards. Supplier news Salford deploy CACI management information system Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust has chosen the InView management information system from CACI to improve clinical reporting and support the their quality agenda. InView, which utilises a […]
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iSoft signs £5m deal with GHG
iSoft has signed a new £5m deal to become a strategic health information technology partner of the private healthcare firm, General Healthcare Group (GHG). The six-year deal will see GHG license and implement iSoft’s patient management (iPM) systems at its 47 BMI Healthcare private acute care hospitals and its Netcare centres. Additional services will be […]
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