Potential purchase of iSoft said to be nearing end-game
Newspaper reports today say that troubled software supplier iSoft is in talks with three final-stage bidders, naming US healthcare firms Cerner and McKesson, together with private equity firm General Atlantic Partners. According to the report in The Times discussions are at a late stage for the sale of the health software firm, which is at the […]
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Siemens take over leading German systems provider
Siemens Medical Solutions have acquired the German health information systems developers Gesellschaft für Systemforschung und Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen mbH (GSD). GSD currently provide their i.s.h.med system to 260 hospitals worldwide, which they describe as “the only integrated clinical work station system for SAP for Healthcare” and have had a long-standing partnership with Siemens in ensuring […]
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NHS Fife uses new PAS interface to tackle ward infections
A new interface has been implemented into NHS Fife’s existing Oasis Patient Administration System (PAS) that will warn both hospital and community staff of any potential ‘hospital-acquired infections.’ NHS Fife Operating Division introduced the new system to streamline and improve its surveillance and case management of hospital-acquired infections. The new interface to the hospital’s existing […]
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CSC says it will implement iPM at Bradford in six months
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which had gone outside the NHS National Programme for IT to procure for a new patient administration system, has come back into the fold. The trust has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to implement iSoft’s iPM in just six months, in a deal underwitten by NHS […]
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Opening the book
What does the industry think of the proposed CfH supplier catalogue? E-Health Insider gauges the response.
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Bradford Teaching Hospitals procures for PAS
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has issued a European procurement notice for a new patient administration system (PAS) to be supplied outside the scope of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The NHS foundation trust placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union at the end of July for a […]
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Germany’s team
The World Cup is not Frankfurt’s only major event this summer. Phillipp Grätzel reports from ITeG, the German healthcare IT industry conference.
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Oasis chosen by Dudley as preferred PAS application
Dudley Hospital NHS Trust and Siemens Medical Solutions have selected Capula Healthcare to supply and implement its Oasis Patient Administration System (PAS), as part of the ongoing Private Finance Initiative project at the trust. Siemens has worked with Dudley under a PFI deal for four years to provide new IT systems and digital imaging. The […]
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Morecambe Bay goes live with PAS from CSC
Three sites in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have gone live with an iSoft patient administration system (PAS) that includes, for the first time, the A&E administration module from iSoft’s Lorenzo reference solution. CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands, installed the system in a ‘big bang’ implementation, […]
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Courage to build
A European framework for interoperability is cruical to the success of e-health across the continent, industry leaders have argued at a high level conference in Malaga.
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