Interface issues delay Salisbury iPM deployment
Salisbury Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, one of the ‘Southern Seven’ sites controlled by CSC, was forced to postpone deployment of its new iSoft iPM patient administration system, due to a printer problem which delayed the start-up of computers by up to two minutes. The trust was due to go live on the weekend of 10-11 November, […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 02.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 2 November, featuring supplier news, implementations, product launches, awards and events. Supplier News Spire Healthcare take over BUPA hospitals Spire Healthcare, the new independent healthcare group, formerly BUPA hospitals, is planning to grow its business as it builds on its position as a leading player […]
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£100K savings on Plymouth data management
The Plymouth Healthcare Community claims £100,000 worth of capital investment savings by deploying a new data storage solution to ensure full backup of its 18 terabyte data centre. The community estimates that its Falcon IPStor virtualisation platform has reduced labour costs and time by the equivalent of one storage administrator, while the flexibility of the […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry news roundup 28.09.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 28 September, featuring product launches, implementations and appointments. Innovations Video games could help in the battle against hospital ‘superbugs’. A pilot project is using computer games to help make healthcare staff more aware of potentially fatal hospital infections such as MRSA and c. difficile. The […]
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Kings College deploys hardware virtualisation
Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have implemented a new hardware virtualisation layer to help make integration of its different IT systems faster and more resilient. The trust have updated the perofrmance of their eGate integration engine software with a new HP ProLiant server, equipped with a hardware virtualisation system called QuickTransit, from developers Transitive. The trust’s old […]
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Central Middlesex counts benefits of VoIP
Staff at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, have benefited from a new Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system from Nortel which has helped reduce call charges and system administration, without needing to change any telephone numbers. The hospital, part of the North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, was being redeveloped as part of a Private […]
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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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Leeds virtualise servers with CSA Waverley
Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has chosen CSA Waverley to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure. CSA Waverley will be installing a new solution to the trust that will consolidate storage to one central location and will virtualise all servers. The aim is to bring business agility and operational efficiencies to the trust. The […]
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Health IT administrator charged with planting ‘logic bomb’
A former systems administrator in the US has been arrested by the FBI and charged after placing a ‘logic bomb’ on a computer network that held patient prescription information. Yung-Hsun Lin, 50, of Montville, New Jersey was last month charged with two counts of computer fraud after it was discovered he had placed the malware […]
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The next wave
Ben Toth explains how the user’s relationship with the internet is changing, in the first of two articles on healthcare and Web 2.0.
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