N3 now VoIP-enabled, BT announces
BT has announced that the N3 network has now been enhanced to carry phone calls using voice over internet protocol technology (VoIP). The enhancement means that NHS trusts will now be able to make free IP phone calls using the N3 Local Gateway Service. N3’s head of marketing, Michael Cole, told EHI: “From day one, […]
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Royal Surrey consolidates data storage
The Royal Surrey County Hospital has implemented a new enterprise data storage system from ONStor to help them consolidate all their data – digital x-rays and diagnostic images – into one file server application. The trust’s IT department decided to look for a new storage system ahead of receiving its new PACS system from Fujitsu which […]
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First go live with Ardentia 18 week wait tool
Business intelligence specialists, Ardentia, have completed their first full go-live of the Pathway Manager 18 week wait monitoring tool, and have announced a further two orders from NHS trusts. Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust is the first to have deployed the new Pathway Manager package, which was developed with Microsoft, and pools together reporting data […]
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Greater Manchester extends telemedicine ECG service
The Greater Manchester and Cheshire Cardiac Network have successfully piloted a new telemedicine ECG service from Broomwell HealthWatch to provide expert cardiology reporting for patients and will now roll the system out to a total of almost 150 practices. The system allows 12-lead ECGs to be carried out in the GP practice by a doctor […]
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BT opts for Blue Coat to accelerate net content on N3
Secure content and application delivery specialists, Blue Coat Systems, have been selected to provide their proxy platform appliances to accelerate internet content to the N3 broadband network, maintained by BT. The company has been deploying new proxy platform appliances with BT for the last six to nine months to accelerate content to the millions of […]
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BT encourages trusts to use its conferencing service
Working across the UK health sector BT is helping to save millions of pounds each year as more and more trust sign up to conferencing solutions, which will further be enhanced by Video Conferencing soon to be available over the Health Service network. BT Conferencing is BT’s specialist service for the delivery of robust, reliable […]
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Nottingham says PACS has already saved £1m
The deployment of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems can save trusts over £1m each year, an NHS IT director has claimed. Andrew Fearn, director of ICT services at Nottingham University Hospital NHS Trust says that his trust has made the savings, calculated before deductions on the cost of PACS, based on reductions in the costs […]
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Five trusts adopt ‘scan and save’ for surgical instruments
Radio Frequency Identification and barcode standards specialist GS1 UK says that five NHS trusts in the North-west have signed up for to its ‘scan and save’ initiative for automatically tracking and tracing sterile surgical instruments. This will allow the hospital to trace the complete life cycle of surgical instruments, including the verification of the decontamination and sterilisation process, […]
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Cardiac telemedicine could save NHS £46m says report
A pilot of cardiac telemedicine services in Cumbria and Lancashire has concluded that if introduced nationally the technology could save 100s of lives, lead to 45,000 fewer hospital admissions and save the NHS around £46m. In a pilot lasting 18 months, NHS North West, in collaboration with the NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Cardiac Network […]
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£12m awarded to three home telecare sites
Teams in Kent, Newham and Cornwall have been awarded £12m to look at how best home telecare can be implemented. The areas will form the Whole System Demonstrator pilots promised by the white paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say, and will be the biggest ever pilot of telecare and telehealth in the UK , […]
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