Ex-Kable MD joins E-Health Media board
Mark Hudson, former managing director of Kable Ltd, has joined the board of E-Health Media Ltd, publishers of E-Health Insider, the UK’s leading source of news on healthcare information technology.
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NHS Scotland picks Ensemble to integrate
NHS Scotland has awarded a contract to InterSystems for a national licence to use its Ensemble product for e-health integration across the Scottish health service.
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Just 752 patients view their SCR online
Just 752 patients out of the more than 1.2m who have a Summary Care Record have opted to view their SCR on HealthSpace.
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Europe ‘has no mobile health policy’
Jaakko Aarnio, a project officer in the European Commission’s Information Society and Media directorate, offered an eye-opening revelation about the EC’s mobile healthcare policy recently. “We don’t have a policy now,” Aarnio told an international networking conference staged in Washington by the US-based mHealth Initiative. One reason he gave in his presentation is that mobile […]
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Orion begins Northern Ireland ECR pilot
Orion Health has begun a one year pilot of a new proof of concept Electronic Care Record (ECR) in Northern Ireland. The one year pilot project, begun this month, will see hospitals and GP practices across two of the five Health and Social Care Trusts begin to share medical records and basic social care information […]
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iSoft launches community care solution
Australian software company, iSoft has launched an integrated management solution specifically for aged and community care organisations. The new iSoft Aged Care system provides residential and retirement components that manage care records, billing and financial, eBusiness and reporting requirements to improve patient care. The system provides the ability to link information from acute and primary […]
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Blackpool gets ‘Darzi’ style PACS
NHS Blackpool has implemented a new Agfa PACS system that enable staff working at the town’s state of the art new polyclinic to access and share diagnostic image records with staff at the local hospital trust. Implemented as an extension of Blackpool, Flyde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s existing Agfa Impax PACS, the new […]
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IBM signs Spanish healthcare deal
IBM and Telvent Global Services have signed a multi-million Euro agreement with the Castilla y Leon government in North-West Spain to improve back office management of the province’s healthcare centres. As part of the agreement a healthcare management system will be rolled out to all the health centres in order to enhance aggregated procurement from […]
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Lorenzo Primary Care announced
ISoft executive chairman and chief executive Gary Cohen has announced that a Lorenzo Primary Care will be launched next year. During a live link-up to E-Health Insider Live ’09, Cohen said iSoft would continue to develop its existing primary care products: Synergy, Ganymede, and Premiere. But he added: “Today, I am pleased to announce that […]
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Cerner completes first Spanish roll-out
US healthcare IT giant Cerner has completed the first implementation of Cerner Millennium in Spain. Hospital de Denia Marina Salud, on the East coast of Spain, went live with the electronic medical record across the whole hospital and some associated primary care clinics earlier this month, less than 18 months after selecting the system. It has implemented […]
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