CompuGroup reports strong Q1 results
German eHealth integration company CompuGroup has announced strong first quarter results, with revenues growing to Euro 41.7m – an increase of 39% on the previous year. The company cited strong organic growth in the health connectivity services sector, as well as by the two most recent major acquisitions. "The successful first quarter 2007 shows the power […]
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Siemens at the crossroads
Klaus Kleinfeld who resigned as Siemens’ chief executive last week was also the mastermind behind the company’s healthcare IT development. William Payne assesses his legacy.
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Patient Level Costing software launched
Northgate Information Solutions and the Public Sector Costing Associates Limited have formed a new partnership to deliver a software and consultancy package for Patient Level Costing. Patient Level Costing is a change in costing methodology to a bottom up approach which will allow for improved clinical engagement by discussing actual patients rather than averages, and […]
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Dudley nurses use workflow software to cut paperwork
Nurses at the Dudley Hospitals in the West Midlands are using Siemens’ embedded workflow engine, Soarian, to sort their nursing documentation and their work lists electronically. Speaking at the Healthcare Computing conference, Sarah Gibson-Jones, the EPR clinical project lead at the Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, said that the trust felt a need to […]
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Wales to tender for GP software at national standards
Wales is to go out to tender for GP software suppliers to comply with a national framework contract in a move mirroring developments in England. A new strategy devised by the Wales Primary Care IM&T programme, GP Clinical Systems: A Strategic Framework, states that national minimum specification standards will also be developed which suppliers will be […]
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Apollo patient data mining software may breach DPA
A primary care IM&T adviser has recommended that GP practices do not use Department of Health supplied software to extract data for a patient survey because of concerns over patient confidentiality. Dr Simon Barton, GP IM&T adviser for Cornwall, wrote to all practices after the DH issued instructions to practices on how to use software […]
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Finance software taken up by 150 trusts
Public Sector Costing Associates Limited (PSCAL) is celebrating signing up its 150th NHS customer to use its Payment by Results and Cost Management Systems. The company was formed in 2002 by IT consultants Sandra Black and Lizo Ngqobongwana, who responded to calls from NHS staff for a system to assist with the National Schedule of […]
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Delay to Scottish primary care software report
A much-anticipated report on the future of primary care IT systems in Scotland has been delayed, and will undergo further work before completion. The delay has been criticised by the British Medical Association’s Scottish General Practitioner Committee which says GP practices are keenly awaiting the findings of the report. Dr Stuart Scott, chairman of the SGPC’s IT […]
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Free receptionist software offered for EMIS LV
Plain Healthcare is offering a year’s free use of their receptionist support software for EMIS LV users in return for feedback on how they used the system. Plain’s Odyssey Receptionist Assessment, which is installed as a module within EMIS LV’s general practice software, allows receptionists to triage patients using a drop-down menu and to prioritise […]
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Anti-fraud software extended to all NHS acute trusts
A pilot scheme that detected nearly £1m of duplicate and fraudulent payments by the public sector has been extended to include all NHS acute trusts. The Audit Commission’s creditor data matching exercise, in which NHS and local authority records are matched against each other and records from Companies House with the results fed back to trusts […]
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