CSAM says portals the key to hospital integration
Oslo’s national Rlkshospitalet CSAM, a Norwegian specialist in hospital systems integration using portal technology, has announced plans for ambitious international growth. Already the company has installations in Norway, Denmark and China, with the system translated into local languages. CSAM is now gearing up for a push into new markets, and is busily targeting Russian and […]
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Gloucestershire adopts MSoft’s blood tracking
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has implemented MSoft’s blood tracking solution to provide tracking and accountability for all transfusions. The first phase of the project, code named ‘Bloodhound’ by the trust, has already gone live in the haematology and oncology units serving both Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The system interfaces with the trust’s […]
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Arden Cancer Centre extends EMR
Cancer care staff at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust should be able to access electronic medical records for all patients by Christmas. The trust use Impac’s Electonic Medical Record (EMR) software, delivered by Elekta, to create and keep a full electronic record of every cancer patient that visits one of their clinics. […]
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Rhapsody installed by three NHS trusts
Orion Health Limited, a specialist in integration and workflow technology in healthcare, has said that its Rhapsody integration engine has been adopted by three NHS trusts over the past three months. East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt (RJAH) Orthopaedic and District Hospital NHS Trust have both installed Rhapsody to […]
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Leeds PCT invest in PBC monitoring software
Leeds Primary Care Trust has invested in new software to make data collation for practice based commissioning and performance management easier and clearer for its services to understand. Leeds PCT is one of the largest PCTs in the country, with an annual budget of more than £1bn. The trust have chose Performancesoft Views, specialist software […]
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Mid-Essex integrates systems in just 4 weeks
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust has successfully installed an enterprise integration engine able to support interfaces in multiple medical terminologies. While integration engines can typically take three months to implement the trust was able to complete its installation of Ensemble in just four weeks. The InterSystems Ensemble interface engine will provide trust-level integration for […]
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Leicester upgrades Euroking maternity system
The University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has agreed a deal to upgrade its current EuroKing maternity information system to the new E3 version of the software. The trust, which is said to have the busiest maternity department in Europe, will upgrade its maternity system ahead of becoming one of the first trusts to take […]
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Misys disposes of hospital IT businesses
UK stock market-listed software provider Misys Plc has announced that it will sell off its hospital IT activities in two disposals to refocus on the community sector. Misys which operates principally to the US health market, but counts a number of UK hospitals as customers, says it will now focus on community and outpatient sectors, […]
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60 Seconds Interview: Jill Beech
In the latest 60 second interview focusing on the people making NHS computing work, Joe Fernandez quizzes Jill Beech, pathology quality and systems manager at Milton Keynes General Hospital.
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North Mersey use MSoft for blood tracking
North Mersey Health Informatics Service has chosen the MSoft blood tracking solution to help them meet compliance with European Commission directives for blood audits. Using the MSoft tracking system, blood samples are taken and stored in 17 transfusion fridges across five trusts – the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Aintree University Hospitals […]
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