Placing XML at the Heart of Hospital Trust’s IM&T Strategy
Following E-Health Insider s XML in health feature two week s ago, Philip Firth, IM&T Strategy Implementation Manager at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust, sets out how his trust has used XML to develop extremely low cost ‘best of breed’ solutions to integrate systems and improve clinical care. Information Technology at Wrightington, Wigan & […]
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IBM To Consolidate NI Health IT
IBM has announced that the first applications have gone live under its ten-year contract to provide Directorate of Information Systems of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS) in Northern Ireland to with consolidated IT systems. The ten-year deal was signed with the DHSSPS in January to provide it with a regional, consolidated […]
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XML Special Focus:Bridging the Gap Between Existing Systems
Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust is the largest post-graduate specialist heart and lung centre in the United Kingdom. The trust was established in 1998 following the merger of Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield Hospital and is based on two sites, one in Chelsea, London and one near Uxbridge, Middlesex. The merger brought with it […]
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First Anniversary for National IT Programme
Birthday greetings to the NHS National IT Programme! It’s 12 months since a new centrally-driven plan for transforming the NHS through IT was announced at Healthcare Computing 2002. So what illumination can we expect at this year’s event in Harrogate? Word is that it may well be a lot less than people had hoped. The […]
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Torex Buys InHealth Solutions
Torex, the leading UK-based health software specialist, has acquired the laboratory, radiology, oncology, mental health and primary care operations of InHealth Solutions for £3.5 million in shares. The deal marks a further significant consolidation of the health IT supplier market serving the NHS and reinforces Torex’s position in both the primary and secondary care sectors. […]
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Lockheed Martin To Build Canadian Forces Health System
Lockheed Martin has won a CAN$17m (£6.8m) contract to build an advanced healthcare information system for the Canadian Forces. The Canadian Forces Health Information System (CFHIS) will ensure that health information about the forces’ personnel is collected accurately and securely and made available to authorised users wherever the service men and women are in Canada […]
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Lost Records Steal Doctors’ Time for Patients
Medical consulting time with patients at a London outpatient clinic fell between 1988 and 2001 with lost records accounting for a large amount of the time wasted, according to research published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. The researchers at the Whittington Hospital, revisited a survey conducted in 1988 and found that […]
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ComMedica Wins European Innovation Award
Innovative UK-based health IT firm ComMedica’s PIRILIS clinical information software has won the ‘best software Innovation’ category at the European Innovation Awards 2002, beating off competition from 20 other entrants from across Europe. A panel of independent judges singled ComMedica out from among competing entries after considering the extent to which the entrants’ ideas, methods […]
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IT Use Varies Widely in Radiology, says Audit Commission
The use of information and digital technology varies widely in acute hospital radiology departments, according to a survey published this week by the Audit Commission for England and Wales. The report, based on figures gathered in April 2001, records that only a minority of departments were able to provide referring clinicians with access to digital […]
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Three London Trusts Sign £5m Deal with iSOFT
NHS trusts in South East London’s Lambeth Lewisham and Southwark Collaboration have signed three contracts worth £5m with healthcare applications systems supplier, iSOFT. The three trusts involved – Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Trusts and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust – will use iSOFT’s Patient Management System (PiMS). The eight year […]
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