Specialist search engine for GPs launched
A new medical search engine for GPs called SearchMedica was launched yesterday by publishers CMPMedica, who publish the GP newspaper Pulse. The aim of the free search engine is to help GPs find medical information online, with search results linked directly to the keywords searched for. Lindsay Cook, managing director of CMP information’s specialist markets […]
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Computer therapy to help patients back to work
Ultrasis’s Beating the Blues, a computerised cognitive behavourial therapy software package designed to offer drug-free treatment to patients with depression, is to be used in a government to help people on incapacity benefit back to work. Beating the Blues will be used in two areas in the northwest of England, Lancashire and Liverpool & […]
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Contract success for Ascribe
Health IT software company Ascribe has announced it has been awarded several new contracts in its pharmacy and primary and unscheduled care divisions, including one for a ‘super surgery’ planned for Liverpool this summer. Ascribe will be supplying a bespoke web-based healthcare IT system featuring both clinical and administrative features to Assura, a subsidiary of […]
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Liverpool trust opts for 10Gbps network for PACS
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has installed a new WAN that the trust hopes will allow the high-speed transfer of PACS images between the two sites both now and in the future. Bandwidth of 10 Gbps has been placed between the sites for the specific purpose of transferring PACS images. A […]
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Incentives fail to convince GPs on Choose and Book
Only one in three GPs believe the new contract payment for Choose and Book to be introduced from April will encourage them to take part in the scheme. A total of 36% of GPs questioned in a survey for GP newspaper reported that the directed enhanced service for choice and booking would make Choose and […]
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CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS
New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) programme in the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS, E-Health Insider has learned. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the […]
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CSC implements new theatre system at Royal Liverpool
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to go live with a new theatre system, provided by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as part of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands region of the £6.2 billion NPfIT […]
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PACS roll-out stalls in NW and West Midlands
The roll-out programme for PACS in the North West and West Midlands of England by CSC looks in danger of stalling. Despite assurances from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), as recently as two weeks ago, that initial implementations will begin before the end of December 2005, E-Health Insider has confirmed that none of the four […]
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Liverpool trust rejects delayed PACS
A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of a Connecting for Health (CfH) Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), due to delays and technical problems with the system. Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust told E-Health Insider that it had taken […]
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Major ministerial reshuffle for health
John Hutton, the health minister whose responsibilities included NHS IT, has been promoted in the post-election reshuffle. He enters the new cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the formal title for the minister for the Cabinet Office. He will head up the department where the government’s chief information officer, Ian Watmore, works monitoring […]
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