iSoft wins pathology contract extensions
iSoft have secured three-year contract extensions to four of their NHS contracts for support and maintenance of its laboratory information systems (LIS) in a deal worth £2.7m. Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lothian, St Mary’s, Paddington, and Salford Royal Hospitals have all renewed their existing LIS contracts with the software provider. A spokesperson from iSoft told […]
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Cerner switches on at St James, Dublin
A new Cerner system at St. James Hospital, Dublin, the Republic of Ireland’s largest hospital, combines data, imaging, orders and results and establishes the foundation for a full electronic patient record. Cerner says patient care will benefit from the successful switch-on of what it describes as a landmark system that unites diverse and complex computer […]
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Meet the suppliers: Ascribe
EHI talks to Stephen Critchlow, head of healthcare IT group Ascribe, about his clinical background and future plans for consolidation.
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iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby
iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nearing completion on the trust’s surgical and urology departments. Following this initial pilot of the order communications component of iCM – enabling clinicians to electronically order and receive test results – is now being rolled […]
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Tablet tests
How did three E-Health Insider readers get on with new tablet PCs in their work? A GP, a dermatologist and an EPR manager review the Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook P1510.
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Healthy optimism?
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma looks in detail at the NAO report into NPfIT’s progress, and how far it covers clinicians’ concerns.
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Honour for health informatics technical director
Technical director of Wirral Health Informatics Service (WHIS), Pete Marsh has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Wirral is one of the leading trusts in the health informatics field and has pioneered developments in areas such as electronic records and e-prescribing. Marsh has been part of the workforce at Wirral Hospital […]
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First for Carecast
UCLH is the first in the capital to have IDX’s CareCast up and running. E-Health Insider finds out how the newly-built hospital is taking to the system.
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‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution
Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic next-generation clinical system for another two or three years. E-Health Insider has learned that since late December in the North East, Eastern and North West and West Midlands regions, NHS Connecting for Health has stopped […]
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Hammersmith chooses Technidata for blood transfusion
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a contract with Technidata to replace its two existing blood transfusion systems with TD-BloodBank, a component of the firm’s TD-Synergy integrated Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The trust has also signed up to pilot Pocket TD-BloodBank, a portable version of the software that provides access from networked and handheld […]
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