Private medical records offered for sale
Medical records of patients treated at a private British hospital, The London Clinic, have been illegally sold to undercover investigators. The revelations were made in ITV’s Tonight Programme report, Health Records For Sale, broadcast last night. The programme reported that hundreds of files containing details of patients’ conditions, home addresses and dates of birth were […]
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Gloucester deploys Aruba wireless LAN
Cheltenam general hospital Gloucester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has deployed a wireless network from Aruba across both of its hospitals. The trust has deployed Aruba’s 802.11n network across Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals and its headquarters after going out tender in October 2008. Steve Edwards, its head of IT development services, said that the […]
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Tunstall calls for government action
Tunstall has called on the government to follow through on its policy to make telehealth “integral rather than marginal” after announcing that it will be making up to 70 people redundant due to falling sales. James Buckley, Tunstall’s chief executive, said: “We’ve had some good government policies over the past few years, including strategies to […]
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US hospital EMR sales slumped in 2008
US sales of electronic medical record systems to large hospitals fell to a seven year low in 2008. Sales of new EMR contracts are, however, predicted to be far higher in 2009, spurred by $19 billion of federal financial incentives for ‘meaningful use’ of EMRs. The figures, produced from US research firm KLAS, say EMR […]
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iSoft bullish on annual results
Australian health IT firm iSoft says that it expects to implement its first Lorenzo 1.9 site during the course of the first half of 2010, and complete development of Lorenzo 2.0 later the same year. Speaking as iSoft released its annual results, company chief executive Gary Cohen said: “We are on schedule to deliver on […]
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CompuGroup posts strong sales growth
German health IT company CompuGroup has announced a 61% increase in sales in the second quarter of 2009 compared with 2008.
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Enquire within
NHS Evidence is a new route to guidance and best practice. Daloni Carlisle reports on the site and the technology behind it.
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Cerner predicts more FT contract wins
Cerner expects its annual UK turnover to rise by around £25m, to as much £61m, as more NHS foundation trusts select its electronic record software and it collects revenue from the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Cerner, which provides its Millennium software in London and parts of the South under local service provider […]
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Agfa Healthcare sales continue to fall
Agfa-Gavaert has announced that its healthcare sales have decreased by 5.8% from €313m to €295m for the second quarter of 2009.
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Scotland awards device security contract
NHS National Services Scotland has awarded a £1m contract to Lumension to nationally enforce security policies governing the storage of data across the NHS.
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