Pennine Care orders Ardentia data warehouse
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health trust, has ordered a data warehouse system to improve its information management and reporting. The trust has chosen a mental health reporting system from Ardentia, which will enable data to be brought together from multiple sources, including inpatient and outpatient activity, referrals, review records and caseload […]
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Oasis EPR goes live at Benenden
Oasis Medical Solutions announced today that its eponymous electronic patient record system has been successfully deployed at Benenden Hospital Trust.
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Agfa-Gevaert Healthcare’s sales falter
Full year results from Belgium’s Agfa-Gavaert show that sales fell 8.6% to €1.23 billion in 2008. Included in the decline was a second half of the year slow-down in Agfa HealthCare’s sales, which account for 43% of Agfa’s total sales. For the whole of 2008 Agfa HealthCare’s sales reached €1.39 billion. But over the fourth […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 19.03.09
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT suppliers. SpeechMagic rolled out at HCA International Nuance Communications has announced that its SpeechMagic technology is being rolled out across the private healthcare group, HCA International. With two-thirds of the roll-out complete, 96% of dictations are being […]
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NPSA Never Events policy welcomed
A company making IT systems to prevent wrong-site surgery has welcomed the launch of a national patient safety policy focusing on eight types of incident that can easily be prevented. Jeremy Turbervill, head of sales for Safe Patient Systems, said it was pleased the National Patient Safety Agency had issued the Never Events policy, which […]
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UCLH signs £10m communications contract
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a seven-year contract for all its mobile and fixed-line communications. The £10m managed service contract was awarded to Azzurri Communications, which will be working across all six hospitals within the trust. UCLH is one of the largest and most complex trusts in the UK. James Thomas, […]
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Virtually there
An increasing number of NHS trusts are undertaking virtualisaton projects. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Blackpool upgrades infrastructure
Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed a five year deal with BT to upgrade its IT communications infrastructure. The upgrade at the trust’s main Victoria Hospital site will include the roll out of an Internet Protocol based telephone system and a complete computer network upgrade to support the new infrastructure. The system […]
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