BUPA moves to .NET systems
Independent health insurer and provider, BUPA, has signed a two year contract worth over £5m with technology company Edenbrook to develop new systems based on Microsoft .NET to support BUPA’s UK insurance and membership services. Edenbrook, a Microsoft Gold Partner, will build a core of systems that interface with BUPA’s finance, web, legacy and data […]
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Trust sets up employee benefit website
Westminister PCT has launched ‘It’s All About You’, a website for staff personalised to show employee benefits, holiday and pension entitlements. Karen Broughton, director of HR and corporate affairs at Westminster PCT, said: "Staff were saying they didn’t know what they were entitled to, or how much their whole remuneration package was worth. Now they […]
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Arresting ideas
Clinicians who work in police custody in four counties in south-east England are being supported by a new software suite, E-Health Insider reports.
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US government awards EHR pilot contracts
The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC, IBM and Northrop Grumman to develop four pilot health information infrastructures across twelve locations in ten states, and then release the designs into the public domain. The four groups, the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) consortia, will […]
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Microsoft claims SharePoint success in NHS
Microsoft has announced that the number of users of its SharePoint collaboration and filesharing technology in the NHS has increased 25-fold since it signed an enterprise-wide agreement with Connecting for Health. The software, which became heavily discounted to NHS users in May 2004 as part of a wider enterprise-wide agreement, allows organisations to share and […]
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University College London NHS Trust goes wireless
University College London NHS Foundation Trust has completed installation of an advanced wireless network, thought to be the largest yet implemented in the NHS. The new Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), implemented by Aruba Networks, has been installed across the whole of the trust to support UCLH’s move to become a ‘paperless’ hospital. UCLH will […]
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Hospital reports over 2,600 e-referrals per month
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is receiving over 2,600 electronic referrals a month using software that slots into Microsoft Word and replaces the print button, according to manufacturers Medisec. The e-referral system links 33 surgeries in northwest England and Wales to the hospital. GPs send the referrals to the hospital using a ‘Send […]
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GP2GP record transfers struggling on attachments
GP2GP record transfer is under threat because the NHS spine may be unable to cope with the size and number of attachments to GP records, according to GP representatives. It appears that the spine is unable to handle the large number of attachments – often vital documents like scanned hospital referral letters – which many […]
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Emerging technologies in CfH sights
Can RFID technology help prevent drug errors? Can patients’ bedside phone and entertainment terminals be used to give them better information? Can patients be better cared for in their homes? These are some of the questions Connecting for Health (CfH) clinical architect, Dr Mike Bainbridge, will be looking at over the next two years […]
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Microsoft in the NHS
Dr Bill Crounse, Microsoft’s Global Healthcare Industry Manager, talks to EHI about Microsoft’s involvement in the NHS IT programme and sets out a vision of interconnected and ubiquitous information in healthcare.
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