Scottish GPs aim for 90% e-referral in 2006
Scottish GPs should be sending 90% of referrals electronically by the end of March next year, according to new guidance on preparation for a single record. The target is just one of the areas covered in the letter from the Scottish Executive which is designed to mitigate the risks of planning blight before a new […]
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James Paget gets outsider PACS
James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust in Norfolk has become the first hospital trust in England to go live with an out-of-cluster PACS system – one supplied by a local service provider from outside the trust’s region. Although the trust sits within the Eastern region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT), last Thursday it […]
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Cash injection
After GE’s purchase of IDX, are more medical systems companies eyeing up the healthcare IT market? Industry analyst James MacPherson investigates.
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Agfa selected as Accenture’s PACS supplier
Agfa-Gevaert has formally announced that it has been selected by Accenture to provide digital radiology imaging management solutions to the North East and East clusters in England as part of Accenture’s work in delivering the NHS National Programme for IT. Agfa will provide include Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Computed Radiography (CR). The […]
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Review of Connecting for Health imminent
Gordon Hextall, chief operating officer of NHS Connecting for Health has revealed that a review of the NHS National Programme for IT is to be carried out to bring it up to date with NHS policy developments and the impact of new technologies. Hextall said that it was five years since the original policy Information […]
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Accenture signs with Agfa for PACS
Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the North East and East of England, has signed a sub-contract with Agfa to provide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to the NHS across the two regions. Connecting for Health has awarded Accenture a contract worth £235 million over nine years to June 2013, […]
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CfH business plan indicates delivery delay
NHS Connecting for Health has issued its first annual business plan listing the agency’s achievements and setting out a programme of work that remains heavy on infrastructure and light on the rich clinical functionality the service is looking for to help transform services. The plan is published almost three years after the establishment of the […]
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The apprentice
John Aird, director of IM&T at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), describes a thriving grow-your-own scheme for IT staff.
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Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed
Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the NHS in England by the beginning of August. The headline figure appears, however, to be bolstered by the application of a very broad definition of deployment — including web-based applications and taking over the hosting of […]
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Cisco to create N3 for Scotland
Cisco Systems announced this week that it has been awarded a contract by BT to help build the New NHS Network (N3) for NHS Scotland connecting 3,000 NHS locations around the country. Ron MacDonald, principal consultant, national services, NHS Scotland, said: “This project represents one of the biggest information and communications technology procurements ever undertaken by […]
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