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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Nij Smellinghe hospital to install Carestream archiving
Nij Smellinghe Hospital in Drachten, The Netherlands, has chosen Carestream Health to provide it with a hosted information management system to enable it to remotely archive patient diagnostic imaging data.
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London payroll and Tees patient records lost
Four computer disks, containing more than seven years’ worth of payroll information for nearly 18,000 NHS staff in London, have been lost in the post. The disks disappeared in July after the Whittington Hospital NHS Trust’s payroll department sent them to McKesson, which provides it with payroll IT services. The disks were sent via the […]
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Foundation trusts tender outside NPfIT
E-Health Insider has learned that just a month after the publication of the Health Informatics Review, a number of NHS foundation trusts have begun to move to non-National Programme for IT in the NHS solutions. Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust have seperately placed advertisements for electronic patient record systems […]
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St Helens and Knowsley uses B2net for data storage
St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust is using technology from B2net to streamline its data storage and improve back up. The trust was storing old, unused data on expensive fibre channel disks and adding new disks when space ran out. But it wanted to store existing, critical data by freeing up storage area network capacity. […]
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Chasing a chimera
Dr John Somers of Nottingham City Hospital explains how England’s PACS programme is hoping to make PACS the repository for all radiological images.
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Abergele Hospital gets BloodTrack OnDemand
Abergele Hospital has implemented a BloodTrack OnDemand system from Olympus so that staff can obtain blood from stocks held at the hospital rather than from its main blood bank, five miles away. The hospital, which is part of Conwy and Denbighshire NHS Trust, has seen immediate time and cost savings from the system, which enables […]
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Carestream rolls out French ‘pay-as-you-go’ PACS
Carestream Health, formerly Kodak Health, has announced that 37 privately owned French medical facilities are now using its Hosted Information Management (HIM) system, a pay-as-you-go system for remote archiving, storage and image sharing. HIM is one of a number of eHealth Managed Services from Carestream Health designed to archive, share and distribute medical data more […]
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Platform for wearable health devices launched
Irish developer Realtime Technologies has launched a new hardware research platform called Shimmer, designed for wearable health sensing in both connected and wireless environments. Shimmer stands for Sensing Health with Intelligence, Modularity, Mobility, and Experimental Reusability, and uses Intel technology to help find new ways to monitor vital signs from devices worn by patients. Using […]
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Scotland superbug alert system delayed
The Electronic Communication of Surveillance in Scotland system, which will be used to alert doctors to superbug outbreaks, will not be launched until next year. The web-based early warning system was meant to be deployed later this year. However, Health Protection Scotland, the agency responsible for ECOSS, says linking Scottish diagnostic labs to the system […]
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