NHS leading public sector on shared services
A new study by the National Audit Office has praised the NHS for being at the forefront of adopting shared services in the public sector, even though only a fifth of NHS trusts have widely adopted the financial concept. The Cabinet Office is currently pushing for the adoption of shared services across government to deliver […]
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NoemaLife launch Galileo e-health platform
NoemaLife has launched a new eHealth application platform called Galileo, designed to help exchange information and share resources across the healthcare industry. Galileo’s eHealth application platform has been developed to provide healthcare organisations with a flexible and powerful platform to exchange information among the many people involved in patient care processes. The new solution is […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 16.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 15 November, featuring supplier news, events, product launches, appointments and awards. Supplier News Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust use Affiniti to manage IP infrastructure The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has appointed Affiniti to provide and manage its IP infrastructure, upgrade existing networks and implement […]
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Oracle boss says ‘rip and replace’ not viable
The vice-president of Oracle Health and Life Sciences, EMEA, has said that healthcare organisations must look for new ways to get the most out of existing systems, and warned they risk failure if attempts are made to rip and replace them. Speaking at an Oracle/CSAM press event in Oslo, Norway, Charles Scatchard, told E-Health Europe that healthcare […]
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ESR approaches one million NHS staff
The ninth wave of NHS organisations have gone live with the integrated HR and payroll system, the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR); as a result 476 organisations covering 949,470 NHS employees are now using the system. The £300m 15-year Department of Health project is being delivered by a consortium led by health IT specialist McKesson, […]
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Spanish hospital to pilot medical tablet PC
Intel, Oracle and Orion Health have announced the launch of a pilot for a new mobile computing device, designed from the ground up for use by clinicians in hospital and community environments. The Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) is lightweight rugged tablet PC with a built in carrying handle designed to withstand the knocks […]
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German hospital group to roll-out EMR
A major German hospital player has announced that it will begin to develop a national network of electronic medical records within the next few weeks. The Sana-Kliniken – number four among the private hospital chains in Germany – have signed a contract with the Berlin-based GMD, a specialist provider for eHealth solutions. The latest announcement […]
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Bristol switches on to online learning
Caroline Plaice, knowledge services manager at North Bristol NHS Trust, outlines how staff are beginning to benefit from a Managed Learning Environment.
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Data from half a million patients to aid research
UK Biobank, a medical research initiative charity, is to start using patient data to provide reliable assessment of different causes of diseases, from 15 April. Andy Harris, a systems architect for the charity told an Oracle press briefing at the World Health Care Congress in Barcelona that the charity would have access to patient lists […]
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Rewiring Long Term Care
As major work starts on ‘demonstrators’ for e-enabled long term care, Colin Jervis analyses the challenge.
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