Coventry and Walsgrave Pick ULTRA Labs
Triple G Systems Group, Inc., a Canadian-based provider of clinical laboratory automation software, has announced that University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust have signed a contract for the ULTRA Laboratory Information System (LIS). The company will supply the NHS trust with the general lab (haematology and biochemistry), microbiology, blood bank, cellular pathology/cytology modules of […]
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Newchurch Launches PCT IT Blueprint
Newchurch Ltd has launched what it describes as a technology blueprint to enable Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to implement integrated Primary and Community Care Electronic Patient Records (EPR). The health IT systems and consultancy firm says that the new blueprint will enable PCTs to build modular, integrated EPR systems in line with latest national guidance that […]
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Growing Interest in EPR Systems Around Europe
Increasing interest in electronic patient record systems is found in a new study of European healthcare IT vendors by consultants, Frost & Sullivan. The attraction lies in the ease with which EPR systems can be devised using existing technologies, but the report’s author, Chris Cherrington, points to a significant problem. "While hospitals and healthcare standards […]
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Pharmaceuticals Now Available through GHX
In addition to medical products, St Johannes-Gesellschaft Hospital in Dortmund has now started trading pharmaceuticals electronically through Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX). GHX says that it now offers an e-trading system that covers both medical devices and pharmaceuticals – the two key product groups at the centre of the healthcare supply chain. After a technical implementation […]
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Lancashire Selects Per-Se for Electronic Records
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a deal with Per-Se Technologies Inc. to implement its Patient clinical information system. The electronic record system, which will first be implemented by the Lancashire trust, is expected to eventually form the basis for a regional integrated electronic record. The £8.3m contract represents Per-Se’s first sales of its […]
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Cerner Buys German PACS Firm
Cerner Corp., the leading US health IT supplier, is to acquire Image Devices GmbH, a German developer of picture archiving and communication systems, or PACS. This transaction will promote the continued development and enhancement of Cerner’s PACS solutions and substantially increase Cerner’s presence in Europe. Image Devices is a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) […]
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IT “Certain to be Next Year’s Trick” for Chief Execs
If IT is not high on the NHS trust chief executives’ agenda this year, it will be next year, Chief Executive of the Institute of Healthcare Management (IHM), Stuart Marples, predicted this week. Responding to the government’s public spending review last week Mr Marples told E-Health Insider, “IT’s not this year’s trick but it’s certain […]
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Telemedicine Helps Babies, Parents and Staff in Neonatal ICUs
A telemedicine solution to the problem of maintaining high quality communication with the parents of babies undergoing neonatal intensive care (NIC) is to start a major pilot in the US. The solution, which links families to NIC units via a secure web site, claims to improve communication, increase family participation, enhance parent education and produce […]
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Three London Trusts Sign £5m Deal with iSOFT
NHS trusts in South East London’s Lambeth Lewisham and Southwark Collaboration have signed three contracts worth £5m with healthcare applications systems supplier, iSOFT. The three trusts involved – Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Trusts and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust – will use iSOFT’s Patient Management System (PiMS). The eight year […]
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Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh Implements Case Notes
CSW Health , a provider of XML-based health information systems, has announced that it has successfully implemented its Case Notes e-records system at Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust. The Case Notes system went live in Acute Medicine department of the trust in June, only 6 weeks after installation, and forms an important step in […]
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