EU data privacy legislation speeding e-health
European legislation is helping to speed up development of healthcare IT infrastructure, whilst maintaining patient data privacy and security across the continent, researchers at Frost and Sullivan argue. According to research by the firm, the European Directive 95/46/EC (protection of personal data) ‘is recognised and accepted as the world’s highest privacy standard.’ The directive is aiding […]
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Concern about USB sticks used for handovers
The security of data stored on USB sticks has been called into question following the theft of a stick containing unprotected confidential patient details at the Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. Around a third of junior doctors currently use universal serial bus (USB) sticks as a means of saving and storing patient data, to pass on […]
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Caresteam completes PACS rollout in Paris
Carestream Health has completed a Euros 8m project to install PACS across 20 sites of the Assistance Publique Des Hopitaux De Paris (APHP), a French public healthcare group. The group wanted to move away from old film techniques and move to digital imaging in as many of their sites as possible. After going out to […]
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Royal Surrey consolidates data storage
The Royal Surrey County Hospital has implemented a new enterprise data storage system from ONStor to help them consolidate all their data – digital x-rays and diagnostic images – into one file server application. The trust’s IT department decided to look for a new storage system ahead of receiving its new PACS system from Fujitsu which […]
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Business as usual
Charlie McCaffrey, Carestream Health’s UK and Ireland managing director tells Linda Davidson about the company’s new name, new owners and its commitment to ‘business as usual’.
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BMA votes for non co-operation on central records
Doctors have voted for a public inquiry into NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) and have called on the BMA to advise doctors not to co-operate with the centralised storage of medical records. The National Programme for IT was the subject of strong criticism at the association’s annual representative meeting (ARM) this week where doctors claimed the […]
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Remote storage secures data despite floods
Many GP practices in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have been able to keep electronic patient data safe from the recent severe floods in the region, thanks to local service provider Computer Science Corporation’s (CSC) remote data storage policy. Since Monday, torrential rain across northern England has resulted in severe floods, with towns remaining submerged in water. […]
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Moorfields goes live with locally developed EPR
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London has gone live with a new electronic patient record (EPR) system developed by the trust together with Stalis and supported by Intersystems. The new EPR, known at the trust as the Moorfields Care Record Management Service (MCRS) is a highly specialised EPR designed to meet the particular […]
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Carestream and Hitachi create clinical data store
Carestream Health and Hitachi Data Systems have announced they have collaborated to create a powerful data management solution that will help enable healthcare organisations to efficiently archive clinical information from multiple systems over extended periods of time. The new solution, which is able to handle multiple data types including patient records and diagnostic images, will be […]
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how Agfa is planning to tackle the UK hospital Electronic Patient Record market.
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