DH invests £11m in dental IT training
The DH has announced it will give an extra £11m to ten of the 11 dental teaching hospitals in England, to help fund IT systems that will support the training of dental students.
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Doctors repeat call for inquiry into CFH
Doctors’ representatives have called for an independent inquiry into Connecting for Health and demanded that trusts be allowed to seek solutions directly from IT providers. Dr David Wrede, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, told the BMA’s annual meeting that it was “Groundhog Day” for the representatives. He said the meeting […]
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CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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Newcastle goes live with EuroKing maternity system
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a EuroKing Miracle web-based maternity information system (MIS) in the first stage of a wider implementation. The third generation E3 system has initially gone-live in the maternity unit of Royal Victoria Infirmary, and will be extended to other hospitals, community midwives and the neighboring Northumbria Healthcare […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 27.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 27 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news PromptSMS selects Tyntec For health sector SMS alerting Mobile messaging services provider TynTec has announced that it has been selected by Australian SMS gateway PromptSMS to provide high-reliability messaging […]
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ASCC clinical contracts in full
Newcastle chooses Pittsburgh for EHR
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre to deploy electronic health record technology at Newcastle’s hospitals.
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‘Sealed envelopes’ on hold as policy debate continues
Local service providers (LSPs) are unable to deploy sealed envelope functionality because a clear specification looking at how the policy should work is not yet available, the Commons Health Select Committee heard today. Computer Science Corporation’s president of the Europe Group, Guy Hains told the committee that the LSP to the North-west and West Midlands, […]
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Bradford to be first ex-Accenture acute trust to go live
The first acute trust in the two NHS clusters that Computer Sciences Corporation officially took over from Accenture in January has told E-Health Insider it is confident it will go live with a new patient administration system by this April. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told E-Health Insider that it is on track […]
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‘Nurse bots’ to be developed by 2010
The European Union is funding scientists to develop ‘nurse bots’, mechanised robots designed to perform basic tasks such as mopping up spillages, taking messages and guiding visitors to hospital beds. It is hoped that in the future teams of bots working together may be used to help ease pressure on hospitals and free staff to spend […]
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