ISoft creates UK LIS development team
ISoft is creating a development team to advance the capabilities of its pathology systems. It is also planning to release a series of new functions for its i.Laboratory and i.Laboratory TP range.
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Sunquest completes purchase of Anglia Healthcare
Sunquest Information Systems, the US specialist in laboratory and diagnostic information systems, has completed the acquisition of Anglia Healthcare Systems. Anglia, which had been privately-held, is a UK company providing laboratory connectivity, orders, reporting and messaging products. As of Monday the firm became a subsidiary of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. The completion of the deal […]
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Morecambe sign for new Technidata LIS
The University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust (UHMBT) have signed a contract with Technidata to implement TD-Synergy, an integrated laboratory information system (LIS) with automated safety tracking features for blood management. The system will handle all laboratory information from the trust’s three separate laboratory sites, based in acute hospitals in Kendal, Lancaster and Barrow, […]
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iSoft wins pathology contract extensions
iSoft have secured three-year contract extensions to four of their NHS contracts for support and maintenance of its laboratory information systems (LIS) in a deal worth £2.7m. Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, St Mary’s, Paddington, and Salford Royal Hospitals have all renewed their existing LIS contracts with the software provider. A spokesperson from iSoft told […]
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The National IT Programme: Readers Have Their Say 2
Our first batch of readers’ comments on the National Programme for IT in the NHS brought some interesting replies. The discussion started after IT tsar Richard Granger asked, in the course of his speech at HC2003, whether there were any alternatives to the direction of travel set by the National Programme. Our first correspondent took […]
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The 12 Days of Christmas IT
Thanks to everyone who entered our Christmas wish list competition. Phil Graham, head of information management and technology at Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust, is a worthy winner with his variation on the 12 Days of Christmas that is bound to strike a chord with many readers. His prize is a bottle of […]
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Reader’s Feedback – Summary No 1
Though we always say we welcome feedback, E-health Insider has, so far, not published comments from subscribers. Let’s start to put that right this week with some recent comments. Inevitably the Budget and the Wanless Review report published just before it provoked interest. A LIS programme manager e-mailed us in sheer frustration… “Having listened to […]
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Review Underway to Get EPR ‘Back on Track’
Jon Hoeksma A major review of Electronic Patient Records (EPR) is underway by the Department of Health to get the programme back on track and the Information Policy Unit (IPU) has at last acknowledged the early EPR targets will not be met. E-Health Insider has learned that a review of the EPR programme is underway […]
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Government Urged to be Patient on Patient Records
The Government should accept that the 2005 target for electronic patient records will be missed and not be panicked into a national big bang approach that could have disastrous consequences for the health service, leading IT suppliers have warned. Having already accepted that the 2002 target for 35% of NHS trusts to have level three […]
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