Path Links Contract Awarded to iSOFT
Path Links, the pioneering integrated pathology programme in Greater Lincolnshire, has placed the largest ever UK contract for Pathology Laboratory Information Management Systems with iSOFT for its APEX system. Money for the multi-million pound contract has come from the government’s pathology modernisation fund. APEX will be rolled out as one complete integrated system serving five […]
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TDS Signs With E-Ceptionist for Appointment Bookings
TDS (Dermatology) Ltd, a UK-based telehealth care company, has signed a contract with E-Ceptionist and has begun using its Internet-based appointment booking service. The E-Ceptionist system allows tds’ users to book dermatology appointments and manage the e-health process between the general practitioners, nurses, dermatology consultant and patients in Britain, helping to reduce the waiting period […]
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CHI Reports Emphasise Need to Align Strategy and Operations
Three new reports by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) provide a series of snapshots of how NHS trusts are tackling IM&T modernisation and harnessing information to support clinical governance. Common themes that emerge from the reports include: data quality problems, ensuring clinician involvement, aligning strategy and developments at the operational level, and implementation of […]
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Siemens to Help Build Digital Hospital
Siemens Corporation is to work with the US HealthSouth Corporation to create a groundbreaking totally integrated, all-digital and completely automated hospital. Technology will be used in every part of the new hospital to improve quality and save costs. Every patient treated in the new hospital will wear a "wellness monitor" to monitor their vital signs […]
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InHealth Group Buys UK Arm of IBA Health
InHealth Group, the acquisitive UK health services, equipment and IM&T firm, today announced it has acquired the UK business of Australian health IT supplier IBA Health Limited The deal is valued at £5.2m excluding annual support fees and the option for future software licences. InHealth Group is also investing £1.8m in ordinary shares of IBA […]
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Is Telemedicine Finally Delivering the Goods?
Telemedicine is working hard to wipe out its reputation for producing interesting projects but not much real-life action – and papers at the Royal Society of Medicine’s TeleMed ’02 conference this week reflected that mission. Titled “From Research to Service Delivery”, the conference’s agenda clearly aimed to convince the sceptics and hard-headed budget holders that […]
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E-Ceptionist Enables Online Bookings in Denmark
Danish healthcare provider Vitao, has signed a deal with US online appointment bookings firms E-Ceptionist that will allow Vitao’s customers to schedule and manage their health appointments over the Internet. Using the E-Ceptionist service, Vitao’s customers will be able to use the Internet to schedule appointments with healthcare providers within the Vitao network and within […]
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BT to Deliver the Technology for Scotland’s NHS 24
NHS 24, the Scottish version of NHS Direct, has placed a £20.5m contract with BT to provide the telephone communications systems that will underpin the new service and integrate it with electronic patient records. Under the ten-year partnership deal BT will deliver the managed network and IT services that will allow everyone in Scotland to […]
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Videophones to Link Deaf, Interpreters and Health Professionals
A new remote sign language interpretation service which uses a network of videophones to provide interpretation services in consultations between health professionals and deaf people, has been launched by the Leicester Centre for Deaf People. The telecare initiative, backed by Leicestershire Health Authority, is the first such videophone sign translation service to be provided by […]
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WebMD Acquires Medscape Portals
WebMD Corporation, one of the first US e-health firms to rise to prominence during the dotcom boom, has acquired the portal assets of rival MedicaLogic/Medscape, Inc., in a $10 million cash deal to expand services to physicians and other medical professionals. The deal covers the Medscape Medical Professional and Medscape Health for Consumers portals. Medscape’s […]
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