iSoft reaches halfway point on Irish PAS deal
iSoft has reached the halfway point on a £41.5m project to deliver integrated patient management systems to hospitals across Ireland. iSoft is providing its iPM PAS system under the contract. The company announced that it has delivered systems which are now live in 26 hospitals in Ireland, a mixture of acute community and mental health. […]
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Adastra offers e-prescribing to N Ireland customers
Clinicians in Northern Ireland using Adastra’s v3 case management system can now print a 2D barcode on their prescriptions – a requirement of the Northern Ireland Executive’s electronic prescribing system specification. Users of the system can print prescriptions with a 2D barcode at the top, containing structured details about the patient and the drugs prescribed – similar […]
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3G Doctor launches videophone consultations
Patients in the UK and Ireland can now access a self-created medical record on their mobile phone, and also have a video consultation with a doctor using a 3G smartphone. The service, launched by 3G Doctor, allows registered individuals to create a web-based health record and video consult with a doctor using a 3G video […]
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Rhapsody installed by three NHS trusts
Orion Health Limited, a specialist in integration and workflow technology in healthcare, has said that its Rhapsody integration engine has been adopted by three NHS trusts over the past three months. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt (RJAH) Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust have both installed Rhapsody to […]
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Altnagelvin hospital system crashes
Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, Northern Ireland was left unable to make bookings for 48 hours last week due to ‘a combination of hardware and software problems’ with their iSoft patient administration system (PAS). The system could not access the appointments database to make bookings for two days – Wednesday and Thursday – last week, staff […]
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Ireland to invest Euros 500m in e-health
The Irish Government will commit almost half a billion Euros of investment to e-health when it publishes its National Development Plan for health.
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Business as usual
Charlie McCaffrey, Carestream Health’s UK and Ireland managing director tells Linda Davidson about the company’s new name, new owners and its commitment to ‘business as usual’.
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Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out
Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management system into 16 hospitals in Northern Ireland. As part of the project Newgate have begun work on piloting their theatre electronic patient record (EPR) software, a system called Nexus, at the Belfast City Hospital. The […]
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Decision support could improve bowel cancer diagnosis
Computerised decision support systems could help to improve the process of identifying patients at risk of bowel cancer, researchers argue. They say the traditional system is producing consistently poor results. GPs currently have to weigh up the significance of symptoms such as rectal bleeding, abdominal pain and changes in bowel habit which may be due […]
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CSW acquires software of Ireland’s H2HCare
CSW Group Ltd have acquired the software assets of H2HCare, an Irish health IT company, specialising in healthcare – providing web-based billing, contracting and financial management capabilities to support effective patient care for public and private healthcare organisations. H2HCare products will be incorporated into CSW’s Case Notes product suite, extending it from an Electronic Health […]
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