Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how the company is planning to tackle the UK hospital electronic patient record market.
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Leeds virtualise servers with CSA Waverley
Leeds Mental Health Teaching NHS Trust has chosen CSA Waverley to virtualise its server and storage infrastructure. CSA Waverley will be installing a new solution to the trust that will consolidate storage to one central location and will virtualise all servers. The aim is to bring business agility and operational efficiencies to the trust. The […]
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Orion develop document tracking software
Orion Health are building a new document tracking solution for the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust to help keep track of over seven million paper records across the trust’s 15 sites. The trust needed a new portal solution to help them to improve access and filing for patient paper notes, which were becoming more […]
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Coventry and Warwicks switches to automated reporting
University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust has implemented DataWatch Europe’s Monarch Data Pump – an automated reporting system which can combine and manipulate data into a format that suits the user. UHCW has the largest new university ‘super’ hospital in Britain and sees one million patients a year with around 30,000 appointments […]
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Heart of England invests in digital retinopathy
Information management and storage specialists, EMC Corporation, have implemented two EMC Centera content storage systems at the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust to b e able to more effectively store and provide rapid access digital diabetic retinopathy images. One hundred Birmingham and Black Country community-based optometrists will be participating in a regional diabetic retinopathy […]
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Newspaper prints “opt out” coupons for Spine
A national newspaper is advising readers how to opt out of the NHS Summary Care Record (SCR) on the national Spine database. The Guardian today prints a clippable coupon bearing a letter which it advises concerned readers to send to the health secretary, Patricia Hewitt, with a copy to their GPs. The letter lists 10 […]
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Warner rejects call for CfH architecture review
Health minister Lord Warner has rejected calls from leading computer academics for an independent review of the technical architecture of the NHS national programme for IT. Speaking at a conference in London yesterday he said: "…I do not support at the call by 23 academics to the House of Commons Health Select Committee to commission […]
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CSC failure leaves 80 trusts without IT systems
A technical failure at an NHS Connecting for Health data centre on Sunday has left 80 NHS trusts across the North West and West Midlands, including eight acute trusts, without access to patient data on their clinical and administration computer systems. E-Health Insider understands that trusts across NWWM were left without access to key IT systems after yesterday’s […]
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Come together
As mobile devices start taking on more than one function, what implications will there be for healthcare? Colin Jervis of Kinetic Consulting makes some suggestions.
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Poor security in NHS portable data storage, says survey
A survey into the use of portable storage devices by NHS professionals and suppliers has revealed that half of those interviewed use their own devices to store data and 20% of the devices used are left unencrypted with no password protection. A total of 40% of clinicians and IT managers said that they used passwords […]
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