Companies gear up for interoperability marathon
Two hundred and fifty representatives of seventy healthcare IT companies will gather in Barcelona next week for the 6th annual European “Connectathon” – a week-long event devoted to the quest for interoperability. As its name suggests, the meeting is a ‘connectivity marathon’ where companies will take advantage of the opportunity to test their products in what […]
News
Meet the suppliers: Intersystems
Linda Davidson speaks to Terry Ragon, CEO of Intersystems, on how complex healthcare systems can be linked together.
Feature
Divided opinions on clinical coding switch
Health information managers fear they may not have the resources to implement the new OPCS4.3 clinical coding system due to go live in April despite assurances from the NHS Connecting for Health project leads that the system is easy to learn and quick to use. A conference organised in London this week (28 February 2006) […]
News
Delays confirmed for PACS in NWWM
NHS Connecting for Health has acknowledged that the North West and West Midlands region will miss the March 2007 deadline for picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) to be fully implemented across England. The delay follows the abandonment of the original contractual arrangements for delivering PACS and Radiology Information Systems (RIS) in the region. Asked […]
News
BUPA Hospitals select Kodak for RIS/PACS
BUPA Hospitals has signed an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company’s Health Group to provide the private hospital chain with an integrated radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) across all of BUPA’s 26 UK hospitals. The move will support the transition to a complete digital operation across the BUPA Hospitals network. […]
News
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.
Feature
ComMedica closes diagnostic imaging business
ComMedica Limited, the UK-based developer of picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) has announced that it is closing its diagnostic imaging software business. The company has announced a "significant restructuring", including the closure of its diagnostic imaging software business, resulting in over 100 redundancies at its Woking office and elsewhere. ComMedica said the move followed […]
News
Strong growth projected in French health ICT
A new analysis of the French health ICT market published by Frost and Sullivan argues that an increased emphasis on patient safety will provide the drive for new ICT investments, particularly for clinical systems. The report says that the increasing use of ICT in the healthcare sector is anticipated to help avoid medical errors, improve […]
News
CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS
New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) programme in the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS, E-Health Insider has learned. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the […]
News
NHS suffering from broken spine
NHS sites experienced acute spine problems in the week before Christmas, resulting in key systems being unavailable to NHS staff, and other sites having their access suspended. E-Health Insider has learned that a number of systems connected to NHS Connecting for Health’s (CfH) data spine were last week left unable to look up patients’ demographic details on […]
News