Trust takes Ensemble as managed service
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has appointed ReStart Consulting to deliver InterSystems’ Ensemble integration engine through a managed service agreement.
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CSC launches BlackBerry ‘super app’
CSC has partnered with Research in Motion to offer a secure new service that allows NHS staff to access and update patient information remotely via a BlackBerry.
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Dudley gets renal system through Siemens
The Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has implemented a renal patient management system from Mediqal under its 15 year managed equipment service agreement with Siemens Healthcare.
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BT to run N3 videoconferencing service
NHS Connecting for Health and BT have announced that BT is to offer a national videoconferencing service over N3, the broadband network that it built and manages for the NHS. The N3 Video Conferencing Managed Service will be run by the company’s videoconferencing unit, BT Conferencing. It will launch in June, but trusts can sign […]
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Capita wins £3.3m outsourcing deal
Capita has announced that it has won a £3.3m contract to become the ICT managed services provider for NHS Hounslow. The managed service will see Capita IT Services delivering ICT to 71 locations and more than 1,200 users across the primary care trust’s commissioning and provider arms and to general practitioners. Capita will deliver a complete outsourced […]
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UCLH signs £10m communications contract
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a seven-year contract for all its mobile and fixed-line communications. The £10m managed service contract was awarded to Azzurri Communications, which will be working across all six hospitals within the trust. UCLH is one of the largest and most complex trusts in the UK. James Thomas, […]
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Heart of England connects with Quicksilva
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has signed a deal with Quicksilva to enable it to get direct access to the NHS data Spine and its services. Quicksilva will provide the trust with its Compliance-in-a-Box consultancy service, Spine Gateway managed service and Spine-in-a-Box test harness. These will enable it to complete the NHS Connecting for […]
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Health security defeats RAF testers
A team of RAF security experts recently spent three days attempting to penetrate the wireless networking component of a managed service covering healthcare for British Forces in Germany – and failed. The secure networking is part of a managed service, PAS 2.0, built and hosted by Dataline Software for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation […]
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Northumbria awards Olympus pathology contract
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Olympus UK a seven-year managed service contract for core pathology. Olympus has been looking after the systems at Northumbria’s biochemistry lab for the past seven years and the trust says the “quality and accuracy” of its systems played a “significant role” in its decision to offer the company […]
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NHS Supply Chain extends iSoft deal
NHS Supply Chain has extended its contract with iSoft to host its e-commerce and logistics applications until 2010. The contract extends the ten-year partnership with NHS Supply Chain, which began with its predecessor organisation NHS Logistics. ISoft has been taken over by IBA Health since the original contract was awarded. Operated by DHL Logistics, NHS […]
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