One Health Alliance launched
A new ‘best of breed’ healthcare IT alliance has been launched, saying it will deliver technology and information solutions to both public and private healthcare organisations. The One Health Alliance has eight member companies covering; procurement management, network infrastructure, clinical IT and workflow consulting, electronic patient records clinical information systems, document and workflow solutions, business […]
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Nijmegen chooses UltraGenda for scheduling
Belgium health scheduling software specialist UltraGenda has been chosen by St Radboud University Medical Centre (UMC) in Nijmegen to supply its enterprise-wide appointment scheduling software. UMC St Radboud, which is part of the Catholic University in Nijmegen, selected UltraGenda Pro for its enterprise-wide appointment scheduling after a Europe-wide procurement exercise. The value of the initial […]
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Wales publishes pathology shortlist
Six companies have been shortlisted as potential providers to develop a national pathology laboratory system for Wales. The procurement is expected to award a £7.9m national contract for pathology services to become available in 2010. The Welsh IT agency Informing Healthcare has announced that Cerner, Clinisys, EMIS, iSoft, InterSystems and Technidata have been selected to […]
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Insider View: Michael Cross
The Database Report had some great points to make. Pity they were hidden by its errors, says Michael Cross.
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German e-tendering for health launched
Three German procurement associations have banded together to launch a new e-tendering system called ‘eVergabe’, which has been developed by the Hessian software provider Healy Hudson. Like many other public authorities, hospitals often have to carry out European wide tenders. Furthermore, they have to operate increasingly economically without letting the quality of their work suffer. […]
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Report on telehealth workshop published
The European Commission’s ICT for Health unit has released a report from its November ‘procuring for health benefits’ telehealth workshop. Determining the state of the art and lessons learned in e-health procurement were the focus of the workshop, with particular regard to deploying telemedicine services. The workshop was run as part of the World of […]
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Two Swedish hospitals choose Sectra PACS
Sectra has signed a five-year contract with Region Skåne regarding a digital solution for managing and archiving radiology images (PACS).
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EC publishes Potorož Declaration
The European Commission has published the Potorož Declaration, a list of objectives to achieve before the next EC e-health conference. The Declaration lists five goals for EC member states to achieve over the next 12 months, as part of the work it has published in its e-health roadmaps. These have been agreed by the member […]
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EC encourages e-health innovation
The European Commission’s Information, Society and Media team has issued a new guidance document encouraging innovation-friendly procurement in e-health. The guidance says that the European e-health market “suffers from the fragmentation of public demand which in turn leads to a lack of exchangeability of products and services”. It adds: “There are also barriers for the […]
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Scotland and NI tender for patient management system
Scotland and Northern Ireland have issued a joint tender to purchase a patient management system, with rich clinical functionality, worth between £30-120m over four years. The tender in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) has been issued by Scotland’s Common Services Agency, and is seeks a vendor to provide a complete integrated patient […]
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