Expert view: Paul Michaels
The director of consulting at Metri UK considers how to make cuts sensibly and what role outsourcing IT services can play.
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Checked out
NHS Direct and Digital Public were winners at the E-Health Insider Awards 2009 in association with BT. Paul Curran reports.
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Cloud in the Windy City
Blackpool gets ‘Darzi’ style PACS
NHS Blackpool has implemented a new Agfa PACS system that enable staff working at the town’s state of the art new polyclinic to access and share diagnostic image records with staff at the local hospital trust. Implemented as an extension of Blackpool, Flyde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s existing Agfa Impax PACS, the new […]
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Green NHS, Green IT
Chris Wilber, director of infrastructure at the NHS Technology Office, discusses the role of IT in greening the NHS.
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Going live
1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ’09.
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Trust loses cancer patient data
Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust has been criticised by the Information Commissioner for losing three unencrypted USB sticks containing sensitive information about cancer patients.
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EHI’s industry round up 16.10.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news about system deployments, achievements and awards, and other developments in healthcare IT. Nortel launches patient discharge and asset tracking solutions Nortel has announced two additions to its healthcare solution portolio. The first is a patient discharge solution, which introduces unified communications and interoperability between hospital systems to […]
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Irish hospital digitises records
The Galway Clinic in West Ireland is implementing a data archiving and management solution from BridgeHead Software to create an electronic patient record. The private 126-bed hospital plans to digitise five years’ worth of patient documents that it has accumulated since it first opened in 2004, using dedicated software from hospital information systems provider, Meditech. […]
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Philips makes move to pathology
Royal Philips Electronics has developed a digital pathology solution aimed at easing workloads and providing decision making support in central and hospital-based pathology departments. The new system comprises a high-throughput pathology slide scanner, high-capacity image storage and viewing system and software for feature recognition and analysis. The company hopes that by allowing pathologists to digitise […]
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