BUPA Hospitals select Kodak for RIS/PACS
BUPA Hospitals has signed an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company’s Health Group to provide the private hospital chain with an integrated radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) across all of BUPA’s 26 UK hospitals. The move will support the transition to a complete digital operation across the BUPA Hospitals network. […]
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Northumbria goes outside NPfIT for PAS
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a patient administration system as a result of delays in the availability of a suitable system that meets the trust’s requirements under the NHS national programme for IT. The acute hospital trust this week placed a procurement notice in the Official Journal of the European […]
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London child health system led to vaccination problems
Problems with the introduction of a new child health information system, provided under NHS Connecting for Health to ten PCTs in North London and Essex, have created difficulties in identifying which infants and children are due for jabs, issuing vaccination calls and recording whether they have received them. According to a report in the Observer […]
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Norfolk and Norwich shelves iSoft PAS
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust have shelved the implementation of a new Patient Administration System from iSoft, provided by Accenture under the NHS National Programme for IT. The trust suspended implementation efforts due to lack of confidence in the ability of iSoft and local service provider (LSP) Accenture to deliver the system "within […]
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Choose and Book work agreed with McKesson
Health IT specialist, McKesson has signed a framework agreement with NHS Connecting for Health for upgrade work to enable trusts using the firm’s TotalCARE patient administration system to implement Choose and Book. The system is used by 22 acute hospital trusts five of which have already been converted and are using TotalCARE to accept bookings. These include […]
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Northampton implements McKesson’s Child Plus
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust has gone live with a new child health system supplied by McKesson that will provide detailed electronic health record for children. McKesson’s web-based CarePlus solution went live at the trust at the end of 2004. It replaces the old ‘green-screen’ Swift child health system also supplied by McKesson. The new […]
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McKesson launches digital medical photograph solution
McKesson today announced the launch of its PhotoManager, software designed to allow clinical staff to access digital medical photographs of their patients at workstations in their clinic or ward, using a web browser. The company says that the solution integrates with electronic records, and will ultimately be a seamless interface with any clinical databases. Jerry Flynn, […]
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McKesson launches text appointment reminder service
McKesson, one of the largest existing suppliers of hospital patient administration systems, has a launched an automated text message reminder service for NHS outpatient which it claims can help save the NHS £300 million a year. The company’s new text message reminder service, provided in association with TotalCare Meditxt, is designed to help NHS Acute […]
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Carrots, sticks and the NPfIT
E-Health Insider talks to the National Programme for IT’s chief operations officer, Gordon Hextall about progress on Choose and Book and what the programme really wants from its suppliers.
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Edinburgh pulls plug on McKesson implementation
Lothian Health Board has announced that it has terminated its contract with McKesson for the provision of a Hospital Information System (HIS) for the flagship Edinburgh Royal Infirmary (ERI). The decision marks a further significant blow for McKesson in the UK. In 2003 the firm was dropped at an early stage in the £2.3 billion […]
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