Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society outsources IT to BT
The Royal Dutch Pharmaceutical Society (KNMP) is to outsource its “mission critical” IT to BT under a five year, €2.6m deal. Among other services, the contract will cover the secure hosting of the society’s office automation and shared storage environment, migration to Microsoft Exchange and the telehousing of applications in BT’s Nieuwegein data centre. BT […]
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GPs vote to halt Care Record Service development
GP representatives overwhelmingly backed a motion to call a halt to development of the NHS Care Records Service at the BMA’s annual Local Medical Committees conference on Friday. LMC representatives backed a motion expressing no confidence in the government’s ability to store electronic patient records safely. They also backed calls to support patients who wish […]
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Portsmouth deploys electronic document management
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust has fully deployed an electronic document management system, using barcodes to store information on the location of paper records that have to be kept for legal reasons. The trust deployed the EDM system in May this year, after two years of piloting. Speaking at the Smart Healthcare expo in London earlier […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 06.06.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 06 June 2008 featuring supplier news, awards and information on newly published research reports. Supplier news Barts and the London School uses TurningPoint interactive assessments Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry has announced that it has chosen Turning Technologies interactive assessment tool, […]
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Fraunhofer study backs German smartcard plans
Germany’s health smartcard project uses up-to-date technology and is suitable to guarantee both data security and accessibility. This is the key message of a new study conducted by the Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS). The Fraunhofer scientists did their analysis for the working group 7 of the National IT Summit, a joint effort […]
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Atos Origin signs 5 year deal on German health card
Atos Origin has signed a new five-year contract with German health IT agency Gesellschaft für Telematikanwendungen der Gesundheitskarte mbH (gematik) for the implementation of the directory service for the German electronic health card project. The firm will be responsible for the design and implementation of the Directory Service in the IT infrastructure and the deal […]
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Finland awards national patient archive contract
The Social Insurance Institution of Finland (KELA) has selected EMC to build a new centralised national patient record archive to securely store over 5m health records in what will become Finland’s largest database. The project aims to deliver an electronic prescription service later this year, followed by the completion of a comprehensive patient record and […]
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German government unveils smartcard costs
The German ministry of health has issued details on recent and estimated future costs of the healthcare smartcard project in response to a parliamentary inquiry, initiated by the Liberal Democrats (FDP). Germany’s current government is made up of a ‘grand coalition’ of Conservatives and Social Democrats, with the FDP as the leading opposition party. The […]
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Carestream updates Information Management Solution
A new version of Carestream Healthcare’s Information Management Solution (IMS) unveiled at the European Congress of Radiologists this month, is to be made available worldwide in the second quarter of this year. The company says that the update will offer healthcare providers more convenient viewing of medical imaging exams and other patient documents, while also facilitating the integration […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 14.03.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 14 March 2008 featuring supplier news and product launches. Supplier news Ascribe post interim financial results Ascribe’s chairman Stephen Critchlow, has unveiled a fall in pre-tax profits from £1.66m to just £812,000 during the six months to December 31 2007. Turnover fell from £7.5m to £7.1m. […]
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