Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma on the Operating Framework and the future of the National Programme.
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BT to axe 10,000 jobs
BT has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs across the whole company, including its BT Global Services division, which is responsible for three key English NHS IT contracts. The job cuts, amounting to 6% of the total workforce, will be spread across the BT Group. Six thousand will be “agency staff, sub-contractors and offshore […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 13.11.2008
The E-Health Insider industry round up returns to cover system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Three London trusts automate medical supply systems Omnicell and its UK distributor Aventec have announced that two London foundation trusts have jointly selected OmniSupplier cabinet systems to improve their management of medical […]
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Sunquest to buy Anglia Healthcare Systems
US laboratory systems firm, Sunquest Information Systems Inc, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire UK firm Anglia Healthcare Systems.
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BJHC goes into liquidation
The company responsible for the annual Healthcare Computing exhibition in Harrogate has gone into liquidation, ending an event that has run for a quarter of a century. BJHC Ltd has run the Healthcare Computing exhibition for the past 25 years alongside the Healthcare Computing conference organised by the British Computer Society’s (BCS) Health Informatics Forum. […]
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Benenden to deploy Oasis EPR
Private healthcare group, the Benenden Hospital Trust has signed a five year contract with Oasis Medical Solutions, to implement the Oasis patient administration system. Benenden, whose main hospital is in Cranbrook, Kent, has been using a legacy PAS for the last ten years, but, due to an increase in NHS business as part of the […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 30.05.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 30 May 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Ascribe announces 12 new sales in last year Ascribe has announced that during the last 12 months it has increased the customer base of its next generation hospital Web […]
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Welsh hospitals deploy Cisco wireless
Clinicians at the Princess of Wales Hospital and Neath Port Talbot Hospital, part of the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg (ABM) University NHS Trust in South Wales, are now able to access information about their patients’ bedsides using a new Cisco wireless Local Area Network (LAN). Using the wireless LAN, clinicians can now access information about their […]
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Suppliers set out vision for ASCC
EHI spoke to a number of ASCC lot 2 suppliers to see what they hope to achieve from the new framework. Joe Fernandez reports.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 18.04.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 18 April 2008 featuring supplier news, acquisitions, events and awards. Supplier news Zebra patient wristbands proven MRSA-resistant Results of independent lab tests at Northland Laboratories in the US show Zebra’s patent-pending antimicrobial wristband coating effectively resists Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Type II, Type III and […]
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