CfH approaches 2,000th deployment
Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of the beginning of September. The figure represents an increase of over 800 deployments since the beginning of August, reaching a grand total of 1,864. However, a closer reading of the figures reveals that almost all […]
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Speech recognition helps King’s meet cancer target
Speech recognition technology has helped produce a 50% reduction in diagnostic reporting times according to a report of a recent cancer treatment trial at King’s College Hospital, London. The trial, conducted by the South East London Cancer Network, was designed to find a solution that would reduce report creation times to meet NHS waiting time […]
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Cancer case repository launched to aid research
A new cancer case repository that is able to extract information from the wide variety of sources in an electronic healthcare record and make them available to academic researchers and clinicians has been launched as the first major output of the Clinical e-Science Framework (CLEF). Professor Alan Rector, director of CLEF, an e-Science project funded […]
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NHS chief executive calls for investment in IT
NHS chief executive Nigel Crisp has called on trusts to make greater use of shared back office functions such as IT, HR and finance to help deliver services more efficiently and avoid some trusts slipping into the red. The call came in a letter to the 156 NHS trusts that were in financial deficit last […]
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Agfa selected as Accenture’s PACS supplier
Agfa-Gevaert has formally announced that it has been selected by Accenture to provide digital radiology imaging management solutions to the North East and East clusters in England as part of Accenture’s work in delivering the NHS National Programme for IT. Agfa will provide include Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) and Computed Radiography (CR). The […]
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Accenture signs with Agfa for PACS
Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the North East and East of England, has signed a sub-contract with Agfa to provide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to the NHS across the two regions. Connecting for Health has awarded Accenture a contract worth £235 million over nine years to June 2013, […]
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Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed
Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the NHS in England by the beginning of August. The headline figure appears, however, to be bolstered by the application of a very broad definition of deployment — including web-based applications and taking over the hosting of […]
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Wirral’s gateway to care
Pete Marsh, technical director of Wirral Health Informatics, outlines the needs and obstacles often not considered by those implementing clinical IT systems.
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N3 problems may hinder PACS use
Problems with the new NHS broadband links, known as N3, have left some NHS hospitals with computer connections speeds too slow for them to effectively use planned new Picture Archiving and Communications Services (PACS). While BT, the contractor for N3, has delivered over 7,000 NHS connections at the speeds required – GP practices are […]
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Philips buys US PACS firm Stentor
Royal Philips Electronics is to acquire Stentor, a US firm specialising in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for radiology images in a deal that will make Philips the world’s second largest PACS provider. Philips, which is contracted to provide PACS systems to NHS hospitals in London as part of the NHS national programme […]
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