Soft launch of Lorenzo at Morecambe Bay
A limited soft launch of the much anticipated Lorenzo electronic patient record has taken place at Furness General Hospital.
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Order comms go-live planned for Leicester
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is planning to go live at the end of this month with the second phase of its deployment of an interim order communications systems supplied by iSoft and delivered by Computer Sciences Corporation. Liz Simons, deputy director of IM&T at the trust, told last week’s Healthcare Interoperability Best Practice […]
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Sunquest to buy Anglia Healthcare Systems
US laboratory systems firm, Sunquest Information Systems Inc, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UK firm Anglia Healthcare Systems.
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Royal Brompton and Harefield implements WLAN
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, has implemented a wireless local area network (WLAN) supplied by French telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent.
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BT eHealth Insider Awards 2008 – finalists
Finalists for the prestigious BT e-Health Insider Awards ‘08 were chosen by judges meeting in London this week. The finalists were picked from 138 entries – almost twice as many as last year – submitted by organisations around the UK. The winners’ identities will remain a close secret until the awards ceremony on 17 November […]
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Northumbria awards Olympus pathology contract
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Olympus UK a seven-year managed service contract for core pathology. Olympus has been looking after the systems at Northumbria’s biochemistry lab for the past seven years and the trust says the “quality and accuracy” of its systems played a “significant role” in its decision to offer the company […]
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Pacsgear establishes European office
Pacsgear Inc. a US provider of document and multimedia connectivity solutions for hospitals and healthcare facilities has opened a European office in Munich, Germany. The company specializes in software for medical image management (PACS) and electronic health record (EHR) systems. Over 600 hospitals worldwide use Pacsgear software. Pacsgear software enables clinicians, technologists and administrators can […]
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How CfH could make my day
In his latest column grassroots GP Dr Neil Paul offers suggestions to Connecting for Health on making GPs’ lives easier.
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NoemaLife buys Ferrania Technologies
German healthcare software specialist NoemaLife has acquired the radiology information (RIS) and picture archiving and communications systems (PACS), in addition to the service division, of UK-based Ferrania Technologies. NoemaLife has also taken over the service division of Ferrania Technologies’ LifeImaging operation. The acquisition will plug a gap in NoemeLife’s portfolio of systems. NoemaLife already provides […]
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Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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