NHS Scotland signs Microsoft licensing deal
NHS Scotland has signed a national deal with Microsoft to supply office software and desktop operating systems at a discounted rate, saving an estimated £8m. Terms of the three-year deal were not disclosed, and the agreement is the first of its kind that NHS Scotland and Microsoft have signed together. Microsoft already has an enterprise-wide […]
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Pay-as-you-examine PACS deal for Finland
Kodak has agreed a three year pay-as-you-examine partnership for picture archiving and web-viewing services in the South-west Finland Hospital District for the four hospitals and 24 municipalities in the Satakunta region. Eastman Kodak Health Group will deploy its Carestream PACS and information management solutions to the 28 sites, allowing them to centrally archive, view and […]
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Evidence-based medicine search engine now free
A search engine aimed at health professionals looking for clinical research literature to support patient care will become free-to-access this month. The Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP) database has been running since 1997, but money spent on improving the search facility, led to it converting to a subscription-only basis, three years ago. Directors John Bassey […]
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Head of NHS Scotland says doctors key to IT projects
Doctors are playing a key role in the development of IT systems in Scotland and will continue to do so in future, the chief executive of NHS Scotland has pledged. Dr Kevin Woods told the Scottish Parliament’s Health Committee that one of the key messages from NHS Connecting for Health in England was the necessity […]
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Scottish MPs told criticism of GPASS ‘overblown’
Criticism of the Scottish GP computer system GPASS is “overblown” and the system will serve NHS Scotland well in the future, the chief executive of NHS National Services Scotland has told Scottish MPs. Stuart Bain told the Scottish Parliament’s Health Committee that there had been significant problems with GPASS which he said had been corrected […]
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Crossroads for Kodak
Jon Hoeksma talks to Kevin Hobert, senior vice president at Eastman Kodak Company and president of the Health group, about Kodak’s future plans.
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Online medical journal access for NHS Wales
Informing Healthcare, the Welsh healthcare IT programme, has announced that it is making another 90 online peer-reviewed journals available through the NHS Wales online library, bringing the total number of publications staff can access to 200. The addition is part of the programme’s Access to Knowledge (A2K) project. The new journals cover diverse topics such […]
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NHS 24 cuts numbers of ‘call-backs’
Scotland’s health advice helpline NHS 24 has reduced the percentage of ‘call-backs’ to patients to less than 20% from a high of more than 50%, tackling a key area identified by an independent review of the service last year. The health advice and information service says figures for January show that ‘call backs’ to patients, […]
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Scotland-wide PACS deal goes to Kodak
NHS Scotland has awarded a national contract to Eastman Kodak Company’s Health Group to deliver a picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) and information management solution (IMS) across Scotland. Under the deal, signed on Friday, by 2008 every hospital in Scotland will gain the ability to easily access prior images and reports, regardless of where […]
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Scottish GPs choose to lose GPASS
Large numbers of practices have indicated that they want to move away from the Scottish GP computer system GPASS as part of the Scottish Executive’s new deal on system choice. The deadline for practices that want to change IT system provider is October 31, under the deal on system choice which was agreed between the […]
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