ACS announces big increase in Adastra profits
The company that bought out-of-hours software provider Adastra last summer has announced a 142% increase in profits and plans to buy more primary care IT companies. Advanced Computer Software (ACS) acquired Adastra in August 2008 for £13.2m. It announced this week that Adastra made profits of £2.6m in the six months to February 2009 and […]
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At least four southern trusts plan for Lorenzo
At least four hospitals in the South of England intend to implement Lorenzo, according to informatics plans, with community and mental health trusts taking systems from both TPP and CSE-Servelec. In NHS South Central, several hospital trusts that have yet to receive a system under the National Programme for IT in the NHS appear to be planning […]
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iSoft signs Southern contract outside NPfIT
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has become the first in the Southern cluster to sign a major contract with iSoft.
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Pennine Care orders Ardentia data warehouse
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, a specialist mental health trust, has ordered a data warehouse system to improve its information management and reporting. The trust has chosen a mental health reporting system from Ardentia, which will enable data to be brought together from multiple sources, including inpatient and outpatient activity, referrals, review records and caseload […]
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East Kent cuts turn around times with SRC
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has been able to reduce cancer diagnosis times by deploying digital dictation with speech recognition from SRC. The new technology is allowing pathologists to dictate results in real-time. As a result, histology reporting turnaround times have been cut from a week to often the same day. Paul Williams, […]
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North Cumbria goes live with Ascribe
North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has announced a multi-site go live of Ascribe’s hospital pharmacy and management systems. The trust chose Ascribe’s latest web pharmacy system in June last year. It wanted to replace its old pharmacy system, which could not provide the detailed patient medication records that it wanted for its three dispensaries […]
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US partners sought for Lorenzo Health Studio
IBA Health Group, the Australian parent company of iSoft, has made its first foray into the fiercely competitive US healthcare market.
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Team spirit
At last year’s BT e-Health Insider Awards, a virtual team won team of the year, sponsored by NHS Connecting for Health. Daloni Carlisle met NHS Pathways – virtually.
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Winchester deploys new e-prescribing system
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust deployed a hospital wide e-prescribing system in just four days. The trust decided that its old e-prescribing system was outdated and chose JAC’s Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration solution to replace it. Damien Kelly, the trust’s lead pharmacist electronic prescribing and pharmacy systems IT manager said: “The usual approach […]
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Oxford chooses Imprivata OneSign
Oxford Radcliffe NHS Trust has announced it has chosen Imprivata OneSign to provide a single sign-up solution, enabling staff to use just one password to access multiple systems. The single sign-on will help staff access patient information more quickly and securely. Previously, staff have had to manage up to five passwords to access different applications, […]
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