Irish health service deploys new intranet
The Irish Health Service Executive has deployed a new intranet, installed by pTools Software The HSE intranet, which is built on pTools Content Management Software, provides information and services for all of its 100,000 strong workforce, and will be regularly accessed by over 50,000 HSE staff from a network of more than 25,000 computers. Key […]
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Scotland and NI tender for patient management system
Scotland and Northern Ireland have issued a joint tender to purchase a patient management system, with rich clinical functionality, worth between £30-120m over four years. The tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) has been issued by Scotland’s Common Services Agency, and is seeks a vendor to provide a complete integrated patient […]
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EMIS partners with Ireland’s Helix Health
GP system supplier EMIS has announced a joint venture agreement with Helix Health, a key health IT supplier in the Republic of Ireland. The partnership will see the two companies initially become resellers of each others systems, and eventually lead to joint developments from the system suppliers, in order “to enhance mutual market penetration.” The […]
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Northern Ireland launches Emergency Care Record
Northern Ireland health minister, Michael McGimpsey, has launched the Northern Ireland Emergency Care Record – a new emergency care project for patients attending A&E and out-of-hours services. The Southern Health and Social Care Trust will be the first in Northern Ireland to introduce the NI Emergency Care Record (NIECR). Based on the Scottish Emergency Care […]
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New clinic in Ireland to study ageing process
The Technology Research for Independent Living (TRIL) centre in Dublin, has opened a new clinic, supported by Intel and the Industrial Development Agency Ireland, which aims to discover and deliver technology solutions to support independent ageing. The clinic will be based in St James’s Hospital in Dublin, and aims to combine clinical knowledge with the […]
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Berlin health conference will focus on IT
Next week sees hundreds of senior health officials from across Europe congregate in Berlin, Germany, for the 4th Annual World Health Care Congress Europe. As a supporting publication, E-Health Europe will be reporting live from the event, bringing you all the latest developments in European e-health. As a taster of what’s expected to be announced […]
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St Helens and Knowsley COIN speeds up comms
Over 7,500 staff working across 160 GP surgeries, health centres and acute hospitals in St Helens and Knowsley, Merseyside, are now connected to a new Community of Interest Network (COIN), enabling healthcare information to be accessed and shared across the region in real time. Deployment of the £4.2m COIN began in July last year and […]
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BMJ Clinical Evidence to integrate with Millennium
The BMJ Group has signed an agreement with Cerner to integrate its medical information database, Clinical Evidence, with Cerner’s Millennium software. The first component of the deal will be the introduction of order entry sets for the hospital sector. This is likely to be piloted outside the UK first, as the database is not in […]
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Cerner Ireland opens in Dublin
Cerner has opened a new office in Dublin as it prepares to implement RIS/PACS and Order Communications across parts of the Republic of Ireland later this year, and its Irish division will renamed Cerner Ireland Ltd. The company has been working in Ireland since June 2004, when St. James’s Hospital in Dublin, chose to implement […]
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Belfast gets European Connected Health centre
Belfast, Northern Ireland, is to be the home of a new ‘European Centre for Connected Health’, intended to help test technologies that enable people with chronic conditions live independently at home. NI Health Minister Michael McGimpsey and Economy Minister Nigel Dodds announced the establishment of the centre at last week’s Connected Health Conference, held in […]
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