Scottish GPs to get choice of systems
The Scottish government is to set up a national framework contract for GP systems and launch a procurement for an IT system or systems to replace GPASS, according to its new e-health strategy. The plan means Scottish practices are likely to be brought under a Scottish version of England’s GP Systems of Choice (GPSoC) agreement […]
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EHI’s news roundup 20.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 20 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news StreamOn.net launches video e-learning for healthcare Belfast company, StreamOn.net, has launched a video based e-learning site for healthcare professionals, in partnership with leading UK professional bodies The website aims to […]
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EHI’s news roundup 13.06.08
E-Health Insider’s news round up for the week ending 13 June 2008 features new initiatives, supplier news, awards and newly published reports. New websites and web tools: Department of Health revises Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool A revised Health Inequalities National Intervention Tool is to be launched to help areas identify local health inequalities and […]
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Scottish doctors angry over e-health cuts
Doctors at the Scottish BMA conference have expressed concerns over the Scottish government’s decision to cut £5m from the e-health budget earlier this year. The move, which was announced by the government in February in order to recruit more police officers, has angered Scottish doctors, who say it could endanger patients. Dr Stuart Scott, chairman […]
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Scotland and NI tender for patient management system
Scotland and Northern Ireland have issued a joint tender to purchase a patient management system, with rich clinical functionality, worth between £30-120m over four years. The tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) has been issued by Scotland’s Common Services Agency, and is seeks a vendor to provide a complete integrated patient […]
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Scotland to pilot new sexual health system
A new Scottish national sexual health IT system, known as NaSH, will be piloted in the next few weeks in NHS Lanarkshire, with NHS Ayrshire and Arran to follow. The system, based on AxSys Technology’s Excelicare product, will provide a common IT platform supporting specialist sexual health services for 12 NHS Boards across Scotland. A […]
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NHS Scotland ready for national PACS roll out
The Scottish Executive has announced that national deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) across Scotland will begin this month after successful pilots in hospitals across Glasgow and Dumfries and Galloway. Over the next two years every hospital in Scotland will receive a new system from Carestream Health [formerly Kodak Health], which will […]
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Scotland completes digital retinopathy roll-out
NHS Scotland has completed the national roll–out of its diabetes digital retinopathy screening service, delivered using web-based e-health technology from Siemens Medical Solutions. In 2006 there were an estimated 150,000 diabetic people in Scotland, a figure projected to double by 2010. Diabetic retinopathy the leading cause of blindness of patients of working age and represents […]
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Three Scottish health boards sign PACS deals
Martin Egan signs the Access Agreement with Michael Jackman. Three Scottish health boards have signed access agreements with Carestream Health to install Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS), as part of the National Services Scotland contract. NHS Lanarkshire, NHS Borders and NHS Lothian have all signed agreements to install Carestream PACS and information management solutions […]
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Business as usual
Charlie McCaffrey, Carestream Health’s UK and Ireland managing director tells Linda Davidson about the company’s new name, new owners and its commitment to ‘business as usual’.
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