Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign
Tower Hamlets has become the latest primary care trust to use Imprivata OneSign. The single sign-on solution is being rolled out to provide 600 of the trust’s staff with secure access to applications including clinical systems and NHSmail. OneSign is more conventionally used in acute trusts, but it is already being used by other PCTs […]
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EHI’s industry round-up 19.02.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers system deployments, new products, and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Wirral goes wireless with Aruba Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a secure wireless network from Aruba Networks at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge Hospitals. Peter Marsh, technical director of the Wirral Health Informatics […]
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider’s editor says the Public Accounts Committee’s latest report shows its time to take some tough decisions about NPfIT.
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Vodafone invests in mobile health firm
Newbury, Berkshire-based, mobile phone giant Vodafone has invested in t+ Medical, a UK provider of mobile health services acccessed across mobile handsets. Vodafone Ventures Ltd, the corporate venture capital arm of Vodafone Group, has made an undisclosed investment in t+ Medical, which specialises in the use of mobile phone-based to transfer patient biometric data as […]
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Jarrold sets out deployment plans for London
Kevin Jarrold, NHS London’s chief information officer and the London Programme for IT’s regional implementation director, has pledged to have installed 15 acute care records systems by the end of the current financial year. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo, Jarrold said that after a “patchy” start for LPfIT in delivering core systems to acute […]
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2008: the year telecare grows up?
A large evaluation of assistive technologies across health and social care begins next year, Fiona Barr reports.
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Winners announced in BT e-Health Insider Awards
Awards for some of the UK?s most outstanding health IT projects and people were announced at the gala BT e-Health Awards ceremony in London last night.
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Data Management: migration
For the IT manager in charge of getting data out of a legacy system and into a new PAS, the challenge can be daunting.
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London delays due to ‘lots of factors’ says BT chief
BT Health’s managing director has told MPs that ‘lots of factors’ are the root cause of delays in implementations at London’s acute hospitals, but that the National Programme for IT’s (NPfIT) work in the capital should be completed by 2009 with full integration of systems a year later. Patrick O’Connell was giving evidence to the Commons Health Select Committee’s […]
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Trusts feel knock on effects of Millennium delays
Ongoing delays in implementations of Release 0 of the Cerner Millennium Care Record Service (CRS) in the south of England are having a knock effect, pushing back deployment dates for trusts awaiting Release 1 of the software. As a result several hospital trusts in the South currently have no firm implementation date for implementation, while […]
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