Nottingham to implement Cisco medical network
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a multi-million pound agreement to deploy a Cisco Medical-Grade Network to help it reduce costs, improve access to healthcare information, and provide patients with services faster and more efficiently. According to Cisco, once completed it will be one of the UK’s most advanced end-to-end Cisco Medical-Grade Networks supporting […]
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iSoft gets ex-Agfa director as COO
IBA Healthcare has appointed the former chief operating officer of Agfa Healthcare, Andrea Fiumicelli, as chief operating officer with responsibility for iSoft. In an exclusive interview with E-Health insider Fiumicelli said he intended to draw a line under iSoft’s troubled past. Fiumicelli joins iSoft from Agfa where he was responsible for leading Agfa Healthcare’s IT […]
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Dublin’s St James’s links speech and radiology
Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is using Nuance Communication’s PowerScribe dictaphone system to automate the creation of patient radiology reports using speech recognition. The Nuance system has been integrated with St James’s Cerner-supplied RadNet radiology system. In its first week of use, Nuance say PowerScribe has enabled the radiology department of the […]
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iSoft become Sentillion’s first UK partner
iSoft has signed an agreement with US-based single sign-on specialist Sentillion, to become its first healthcare channel partner in Europe. Sentillion provides single sign-on (SSO), context management, and user provisioning technologies. As a result of the deal, iSoft will offer NHS trusts the opportunity to purchase new SSO technology with its software, enabling staff to […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 29.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 29 February 2008 featuring supplier news, appointments, awards and events. Supplier news Leicester signs managed service deal with Siemens University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust signed a managed service agreement with Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics for the delivery of its test requirements in blood chemistry, haematology, […]
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Bedford Hospital uses PDAs to track repair jobs
Facilities and Estates maintenance staff at Bedford Hospital NHS Trust are using PDAs to receive and clear job dockets for repairs and maintenance. The system, provided by TAAP together with Mindworks, takes information from the department’s helpdesk system and sends out job dockets over a Vodafone mobile GPRS network. Staff previously worked with paper dockets […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 01.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 1 February 2008, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and appointments. Supplier news King Fahd Medical City uses Orion’s Rhapsody The King Fahd Medical City (KFMC) in Saudi Arabia has adopted the Rhapsody Integration Engine to provide faster and more reliable communication between its computer […]
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Countdown to the 18 week wait
By December 2008 all non-urgent NHS patients should start their hospital treatment within 18 weeks of referral, a major challenge with IT at the heart of providing the solutions.
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ASCC suppliers named
Connecting for Health has named the suppliers for three of the four categories of the Additional Supply Capability and Capacity framework initiative.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 11.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 11 January 2008. North Yorkshire PCT use digital pen and paper for SAP Anoto partner Ubisys is to roll out digital pen and paper technology to 150 North Yorkshire Adult and Community services staff at North Yorkshire and York PCT to improve their procedures for […]
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