College highlights poor PACS image sharing
Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor, according to a new position paper from the Royal College of Radiologists.
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Virtually there
An increasing number of NHS trusts are undertaking virtualisaton projects. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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DH and London move on shared services
NHS chief executive David Nicholson is encouraging the health service to make greater use of shared services as London’s primary care trusts prepare to set up their own commissioning support organisation. Nicholson wrote to trust chief executives last week to encourage them to use NHS Shared Business Services or other shared services for back-office functions. […]
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Antwerp selects Agfa for cardiovascular imaging
The University of Antwerp Hospital has awarded a contract with Agfa to provide it with enhanced cardiovascular diagnostic imaging and reporting. Agfa HealthCare will install its IMPAX Cardiovascular solution, providing enterprise-wide access to cardiology patient records to meet the high volume diagnostic needs of the department. The deal is for eight-years and includes maintenance and […]
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Here is the news: for 2009
The NHS will not be immune from the impact of the credit crunch and this will force policy makers and trusts to make some hard decisions about healthcare IT, according to experts interviewed by E-Health Insider. Almost all the politicians, analysts, suppliers and managers asked to look ahead to 2009 argued that the health service […]
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E-Health Insider’s industry round up 18.12.2008
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round covers system deployments, agreements, new products, appointments and other changes at leading healthcare IT suppliers. Data Transfer Service contract negotiations complete NHS Connecting for Health has announced that it has completed contract negotiations for the ongoing provision of the Data Transfer Service with BT. Existing contractual arrangements ended in […]
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Digital Healthcare raises £2.6m funding
Digital Healthcare, a UK software company specialising in image management and storage solutions for the ophthalmology sector, has successfully raised £2.6m in third round venture capital funding. Digital Healthcare provides software and related services for very large scale population eye screening and technology to manage information and images in clinical ophthalmology. The additional investment will […]
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NHS Tayside and Lanarkshire guilty of data breaches
Two Scottish health boards have been found in breach of data protection laws for leaving patients’ personal information on paper records at abandoned hospitals. NHS Tayside and NHS Lanarkshire have been ordered to sign an agreement to comply with the Data Protection Act (DPA) or face possible future prosecution. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) found […]
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Gematik to evaluate USB sticks for patient records
The German national health IT body has agreed to evaluate USB sticks as a means of storing and carrying electronic patient records.
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Google joins Continua e-health alliance
Google has joined Continua Health Alliance, the Intel-led international coalition working to develop standards to enable interoperable e-health products and services for the personal health market.
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