ACS buys CareSys for £2.6m
Advanced Computer Software Group plc, a provider of software and IT services for patient care, accounting and business management, has returned to the acquisition trail with the purchase of Surrey based CareSys Software Ltd for £2.6m in cash.
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Uncertain times
Fiona Barr finds that respondents to EHI Primary Care’s survey of strategic health authority and primary care trust staff are worried about the impact of the NHS white paper.
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Answers and questions
E-Health Insider rounds up reaction to Simon Burns’ ministerial statement on the future – or otherwise – of the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Insider view: Lyn Whitfield
E-Health Insider looks back over NPfIT, which is to face a radically different future as a result of a ministerial statement from health minister Simon Burns.
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Voting opens for champion of the year
Voting is now open for Healthcare IT Champion of the Year; a special category of the E-Health Insider Awards 2010 in association with BT that is decided by you, the reader.
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EHI’s industry round up – appointments
This special edition of E-Health Insider’s industry round up focuses on appointments that have been made in the healthcare IT sector over the past three months. BridgeHead Software appoints EMEA sales head BridgeHead Software, a healthcare storage virtualization company, has appointed Tony Tomkys as director of sales for EMEA, to increase its customer footprint in […]
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Expert view: Ian Herbert
After 38 years of involvement with NHS IT, Ian Herbert offers an informatician’s view of the white paper, ‘Liberating the NHS’.
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Docobo offers Oz client management
UK telehealth firm Docobo Ltd has announced an exclusive deal to distribute ComCare, an Australian community care client management system. The ComCare product has been developed, and is widely used by, Silver Chain – a Western Australia-based, not for profit, charity that provides district nursing and care services to 40,000 clients annually. ComCare is a […]
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Information Centre wins in ALB review
The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that it will be put on a firmer statutory footing and given new responsibilities.
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Great Ormond Street barcodes wristbands
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust has rolled out barcoded wristbands from Dakota Healthcare. The wristband system, which fully integrates with the trust’s existing iSoft iPM patient administration system, and is GS1 standard compliant, provides patient verification including NHS Number, hospital identification number, patient name and date of birth. The trust said that […]
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