UK version of PubMed Central launched
A major initiative that aims to promote the free transfer of ideas via an online digital archive of peer-reviewed research papers in the medical and life sciences was launched this week. UK PubMed Central (UKPMC), based on a US model, will provide free access to the archive and, it is hoped, help to speed up […]
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European ‘Connect-a-thon’ tests interoperability
Over 60 healthcare software companies and organisations from all over the world have gathered together in Spain to test the interoperability of their systems. A total of 700 combinations of system and 1600 tests were carried out over four days in Barcelona in a yearly European ‘Connect-a-thon’, organised by Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise in Europe […]
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Connecting for Health fails to lead on Contact
NHS Connecting for Health continues to run its own local version of Microsoft Exchange rather than migrating to NHS Contact, the web-based e-mail service it procured for the health service at a total cost of up to £90m. At Healthcare Computing 2006 last month CfH chief executive Richard Granger castigated NHS trusts for not fully […]
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Addenbrooke’s starts single sign-on roll out
A single sign-on system which will save busy clinical staff remembering multiple passwords and user names is being rolled out at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Technical manager, David Hughes, explained that clinical and IT support staff were grappling with a total of 31 applications used around the hospital. Staff have an average of eight passwords to […]
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iSoft’s Lorenzo hits new highs in benchmarks
Manchester based health software firm iSoft has announced that its Lorenzo healthcare solution has hit new benchmark highs in handling simultaneous transactions and concurrent users. In the benchmark tests, carried out with HP, Microsoft and Intel, Lorenzo was said to have handled six million ‘real’ transactions an hour for 25,000 concurrent users. The benchmark was […]
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Graphnet says 45 PCTs now using Xtract
Graphnet Health has announced that 45 primary care trusts in England are in the process of implementing its data extraction software, Xtract. The software is designed to enable clinical data from GP systems to be accurately and securely extracted and then, subject to local data sharing agreements, used by other health professionals within a local […]
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Hemel explosion hits Northgate hospital customers
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London, were was working on paper this week after the company that manages their hosted patient administration services suffered serious damage in Sunday’s explosion in Hemel Hempstead (below). It is understood that a total of five hospitals use Northgate’s services and that they have reverted […]
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NHS domain block causing bounced patient e-mail
E-mails to nhs.uk addresses from patients may be being blocked due to the inclusion of nhs.uk on a site used by some hosting services to stop spam and invalid emails, E-Health Insider has learned. The problem has affected at least one GP practice, East Quay Medical Centre in Bridgwater, Somerset. They have found that e-mails meant for them […]
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Kodak chosen for Finnish e-health project
Eastman Kodak’s Health Group has been selected as the main supplier of Finland’s RATU e-health project, which aims to integrate the medical imaging and information systems across five Finnish hospital districts. The €2.7m RATU project focuses on the development of e-health in Northern Finland and is funded by five hospital districts and the Finnish Ministry […]
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Moorfields Eye Hospital goes for virtual storage
Moorfields Eye Hospital in London have installed a virtual storage server that allows them to add extra hardware and storage facilities seamlessly and allow data used by several sites to be backed up in one central location. The hospital, which keeps a large number of images, electronic patient records and patient demographic and staff details […]
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