BigHand wins Princess Alexandra contract
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust has signed a contract with BigHand for a trust-wide implementation of its digital dictation software. The Harlow trust says the technology is being rolled across all directorates and will be used by more than 600 users when it is fully implemented. Users will be able to record information into […]
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And statistics
Dr Foster and the CQC have both come under fire for how they rate hospitals. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Cloud in the Windy City
Stalis standalone e-discharge summary
Stalis has launched a clinical e-discharge solution to allow NHS trusts that do not have discharge summary functionality built into their patient administration system to produce immediate summaries for patients. The company has made the CareXML/eDS product available after finding that many trusts are unlikely to hit the government’s April 2010 target for delivering discharge […]
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Microsoft to buy Sentillion
Microsoft is to buy Sentillion, a specialist in single sign-on technology for the healthcare industry.
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Procurements for South complete by April
The Department of Health’s chief information officer, Christine Connelly, has said she wants procurements for systems in the South to begin in January, and be completed by the beginning of April 2010.
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Agfa Healthcare’s sales continue to drop
Agfa Healthcare’s sales have continued to decrease dropping by 5.5% compared with last years figures During Q3 of 2009 AGFA Gavaert said that is healthcare division made net sales of €275m, down from 2008 sales when Q3 sales were €291m. However, in its third quarter results, the company claimed that the business group’s profitability had […]
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NHS Dudley builds new data centre
NHS Dudley has completed a new state-of the-art data centre after signing a contract with XMA/2bm. 2bm, a subcontractor to XMA, were identified through an OGC Buying Solutions Catalist national framework as being suitable to meet the organisation’s tender requirement, which specified a seven week timescale and fixed budget. The project included the construction of a […]
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400 issues and counting
Jon Hoeksma looks back at eight years of E-Health Insider, as it issues its 400th newsletter.
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