EHI’s industry round up 22.12.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up includes news about the benefits that trusts are seeing from deploying new technology, launches and partnerships between leading healthcare technology companies. Trusts reaps service desk accreditation benefits The Primary Care Informatics Unit covering NHS Blackburn with Darwen and NHS East Lancashire says it has seen "tangible benefits" since […]
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Blackpool: ‘All systems go for Alert’
The board of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has approved the proposal for Alert Life Sciences to become the supplier of the trust’s electronic patient record system. Philip Graham, head of IM&T, told E-Health Insider that the case for Vision – the name given to the project by trust staff – had […]
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Digital Healthcare texts reduce DNAs
Digital Healthcare, a supplier of software to UK Diabetic Retinal Screening Services, has developed a module that uses text messages to help reduce the number of patients who miss appointments. The SMS text reminder module uses NHSmail to send a free automated reminder at a preconfigured time before the patient’s appointment. The administrator can customise […]
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Carestream Health launches latest RIS
The latest version of Carestream Health’s RIS promises significant new features, including role-based configurability to suit different users and a low glare mode to stop the RIS screen distracting radiologists as they focus on medical images. The new RIS, launched high above London at the Gherkin skyscraper, is version 11 of the system and has […]
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Lancashire begins e-document project
NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale in Lancashire has begun a project to digitise all its inactive health care records. The primary care trust is working with EDM Group to convert inactive paper records into digital records. The document conversion should dramatically reduce paper storage requirements. It should also help to improve the efficiency of the retrieval of inactive records, […]
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Trust tracks and recovers stolen laptop
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has tracked down and recovered five stolen laptops after installing Computrace on the trust’s equipment. The trust, which employs 3,500 staff and provides mental health and substance misuse services across Lancashire, implemented Computrace from Absolute Software across its whole IT estate of laptops, desktops and specialist healthcare tablets three years […]
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Four more organisations breach DPA
The Information Commissioner’s Office has taken enforcement action against another four NHS organisations, taking the number rapped for data breaches to 14 in six months. Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, NHS Central Lancashire, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, and Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have become the latest organisations to sign […]
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Lancashire takes charge of USB ports
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has taken control of its USB ports using a data protection solution from Lumension Security. The trust, which employs 3,500 staff and provides mental health and substance misuse services across Lancashire, held a USB stick amnesty and replaced “rogue” devices with officially sanctioned memory sticks. It then implemented the Sanctuary […]
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System C launches consultancy business
System C healthcare has launched a new consultancy, Perigon Consulting, intended to help NHS organisations focus on improving services to patients through innovative clinical practice and associated business efficiencies. Perigon, which will operate as a division of System C, has been created by merging Perigon Healthcare, an existing independent healthcare consulting partnership, specialising in ‘future […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 23.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 23 November, featuring supplier news, events, and awards. Supplier News BT looks at Middle East opportunities to expand health business BT’s International Health Advisory Board is meeting senior members of the Qatar business community and representatives of government organisations to discuss e-health business opportunities in […]
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