BT completes deals for 25 RiO sites
BT has finalised the contracts for the 25 RiO sites across the South of England that formed part of the extended contract that it signed with NHS Connecting for Health last year.
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Blackburn and NHS Direct pilot wellness
NHS Direct is to pilot its first web and telephone-based support service targeted at patients at risk of developing long term conditions.
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EHI’s industry round up 30.06.2010
This month’s industry round-up reports on contract signings and industry awards; with iSoft and Carestream Health both receiving Frost and Sullivan recognition for key products. Simpl creates testing framework Healthcare IT advisor and integrator Simpl has created a software application development testing framework for Informing Healthcare, the NHS technology programme in Wales. The testing framework […]
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Guernsey takes next steps on record
Guernsey has gone live with the next stages of its multi-million pound electronic health and social care record by implementing specialist oncology software. The ChemoCare software from CIS Oncology will provide oncologists and paediatricians with the ability to manage chemotherapy drug prescribing and treatment planning and enable nursing staff to record what drugs the patient […]
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Hello Goodbye
Lyn Whitfield reports from Liverpool on an NHS Confederation conference pre-occupied by the entrance and exit of GP commissioning and primary care trusts.
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Bellwether
Bristol has some ambitious and unusual ideas for sharing information. Daloni Carlisle reports on the NHS Connecting Care project.
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Lancashire trusts buy Virgin network
A collaborative partnership of eight Lancashire trusts and primary care trusts has chosen Virgin Media Business to create a £9m network to connect 170 healthcare sites. The project will include the delivery of wireless, local area network, voice, remote access service and mobile service and will come with a bespoke service desk to act as […]
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Burns and Burstow join health team
Two health ministers have been appointed to join health secretary Andrew Lansley at the Department of Health. The appointment of Conservative Simon Burns and Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow suggests there may not be a ministerial place for Conservative Stephen O’Brien or Lib Dem Norman Lamb, who both shadowed health in opposition. However, the junior ministerial […]
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Oasis and Sandwell to market bespoke EPR
Sandwell Mental Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust and Oasis Medical Solutions have announced that they will market their jointly developed electronic patient record to the mental health market.
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Records pledge in Conservative manifesto
The general election The Conservative election manifesto has reiterated the Tories’ pledge to give patients online control of their own health records. No details are given of how this will be achieved; leaving open the possibility that a Conservative government might look beyond the NHS’s own HealthSpace to more eye-catching deals with Google or Microsoft. […]
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