SNOMED CT-based sensitivity now on Multilex DDF
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe (FDBE), has announced the release of SNOMED CT-based sensitivity checking within its drug knowledge base, the Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF). The release follows on from a development last year when FDBE released functionality to support SNOMED CT and dm+d based sensitivity checking to comply with NHS […]
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Basildon and Thurrock installs ViewPortal Healthcare
The Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is using a new electronic document management system called ViewPortal Healthcare from SpectrumITech to store paper documents electronically and make them available to staff. The trust required an electronic document management (EDM) system that would help them electronically store burgeoning paper archives and make the most […]
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North Mersey use MSoft for blood tracking
North Mersey Health Informatics Service has chosen the MSoft blood tracking solution to help them meet compliance with European Commission directives for blood audits. Using the MSoft tracking system, blood samples are taken and stored in 17 transfusion fridges across five trusts – the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, Aintree University Hospitals […]
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New Zealand’s i-Health sues iSoft
New Zealand electronic health records developer i-Health is suing UK-based health software firm iSoft for breach of a 2004 sale agreement. The legal action focuses on iSoft allegedly substantially ceasing development of the HealthViews electronic patient record software it bought from i-Health in early 2004. It alleges the iSoft Group failed to market the software […]
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Telecare framework sales near £7m mark
Almost £7m of sales have gone through the telecare national framework agreement since its launch last June and an update available from this month has added nearly 1000 new equipment lines and additional savings. The national framework agreement, run by the NHS Purchasing and Supplies Agency (NHS PASA), aims to provide health and local authorities […]
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FDBE signs up with Map of Medicine and Soarian
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe has secured contracts to add its systems to the Map of Medicine and Siemens’ Soarian electronic patient record system. Siemens and FDBE have already worked together in America, and will now collaborate to integrate the decision support system into the UK version of Soarian. Siemens’ IT solutions business […]
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ExtraMed secure £500,000 investment
Scottish based healthcare IT software developers ExtraMed have secured £500,000 of investment to further develop products for the NHS market. The Falkirk-based company specialise in developing and implementing innovative hospital and patient management systems and have secured an investment package including £250,000 from the Sigma Innovation Fund, £100,000 from Scottish Enterprise’s Scottish Seed Fund and […]
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Ireland’s Systems Solutions merges with Medicom
Systems Solutions, a provider of software systems to the Irish pharmacy sector has announced it is to merge with Medicom, the leading provider of software to the Irish GP sector. The deal will create one of Ireland’s largest health ICT companies. Under the deal Systems Solutions will acquire the majority stake in Medicom. The resulting […]
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Heart of England invests in digital retinopathy
Information management and storage specialists, EMC Corporation, have implemented two EMC Centera content storage systems at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust to b e able to more effectively store and provide rapid access digital diabetic retinopathy images. One hundred Birmingham and Black Country community-based optometrists will be participating in a regional diabetic retinopathy […]
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Heartlands uses RFID for patient identification
The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Safe Surgery Systems Ltd a contract to supply a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) patient identification system that links to electronic patient records on PDAs, allowing staff to identify patients before they go for surgery. Hear of England will use wireless PDA’s and patient wristbands fitted with […]
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