NI extends iSoft contract for €9.8m
Northern Ireland has extended its iSoft contracts for long-term support and maintenance services of its health information systems in nine of its major acute hospitals. Under the €9.8m (£8.4m) agreement with the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, iSoft will continue to provide services until 2015 for its Clinicom patient management system to […]
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Ofcom launches 111 consultation
Ofcom has launched a consultation on the use of a national 111 non-emergency number for healthcare. Following the consultation, the Department of Health plans to pilot the new number and to roll the service out across England. Ofcom, the independent regulator for the UK communications industries, will run the consultation from today, looking at use […]
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Cerner to create 40 jobs in Ireland
US health software firm Cerner has announced it is to create up to 40 new technology support jobs in Ireland. The jobs will be created as part of a new multi-lingual software support operation, focused on the European market. The new service could create up to 40 jobs by the end of 2009, with the […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 24.04.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Directorate receives ISO accreditation The directorate at Walsall Manor Hospitals NHS Trust that manages estates, telecommunications and medical equipment has achieved the ISO 9001 quality management system standard – the first time a whole hospital directorate […]
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Heartlands rolls out JAC e-prescribing system
Birmingham’s Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has started to roll out a JAC e-prescribing system across all three of its acute-care sites. The project, which JAC claims is the largest of its kind in the UK, will see company’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system deployed to cover 1,800 beds and all the […]
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Sweden’s Sectra has record six months
Swedish IT and medical-technology company Sectra has announced a record breaking six months with bookings, revenues and profits all up. Successful direct sales of medical systems led to Sectra’s order bookings during the second quarter being the highest ever. Among other orders, Sectra secured the largest single order to date when the Northern Ireland Department […]
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Nuance and GE complete RIS-SpeechMagic integration
Nuance Communications has successfully integrated its SpeechMagic technology into GE Healthcare Centricity Radiology Information System (RIS). The development is said to be the first RIS integration with a Citrix ready speech recognition for the European Middle East and Africa region. According to Nuance community hospitals, out-patient imaging centres and integrated delivery networks can now implement […]
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JAC wins South African pharmacy contract
Medicines management software specialist JAC has won a contract to provide the latest version of its pharmacy management software to hospitals in the Western Cape province of South Africa. JAC, a subsidiary of Mediware Information Systems, has been awarded the new contract by the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC) of South Africa to implement the […]
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iSoft appoint ex-Agfa man as UK MD
Isoft Health, a division of Australia’s IBA Health Group, has confirmed that Adrian Stevens has been appointed as managing director of iSoft Health, for UK and Ireland. The appointment will see Stevens take responsibility for iSoft’s key contracts with existing NHS customers and with Computer Sciences Corporation, the local service provider for the North, Midlands […]
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Ireland gets register of health informatics pros
The Health Informatics Society of Ireland (HISI) will this week launch the first Irish register of health informatics professionals at its annual conference. I-CHIP, the Irish Council for Health Informatics Professions, will provide a register and classification of health informatics professional in Ireland. The HISI estimates there are that fewer than 1000 dedicated ICT staff […]
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