Conservatives hold review of NHS IT
The Conservative party has confirmed it is currently undertaking an independent review of the National Programme for IT. Shadow health minister, Stephen O’Brien, had initially announced in an opposition debate last June: “If the government do not agree to a full and independent review as a result of our call, we will, as a matter […]
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Carestream to expand PACS in Germany
Dr Christoph Hancken and Graeme Allan at the contract signing for the new Carestream PACS Carestream Health Deutschland has signed an agreement with Dr Hancken Clinics to expand its PACS solution to the practice based at the Elbeklinikum Clinic in Buxtehude. Carestream will also install a long-term central archive for all four group locations at […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 25.01.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 25 January 2008 featuring supplier news, events, product launches and company collaborations. Supplier news Pharmacy Compliance Monitored Using Wireless Sensors Adaptive Wireless Solutions has supplied a wireless sensor network system to Facility Monitoring Systems as part of a multi-area pharmacy clean room, stores and packing […]
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Austrian hospitals get fingerprint biometrics
Austria’s biggest private hospital chain, the ‘Barmherzige Brüder’, is to begin using biometric fingerprinting to control access to IT systems. Once live, doctors and nurses will no longer have to remember a password to log onto the hospital information system (HIS). The ‘Barmherzige Brüder’ (merciful brothers) run nine hospitals in Austria, all of which will […]
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German doctors say no to centrally stored patient records
Recent reports about incidents of data loss in the British healthcare system have alarmed medical doctors in other European countries.
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Opposition calls for rethink on data storage
The debate over healthcare data security took a political turn as the opposition called on the government to change its plans for central data storage.
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New blood tracking system used across Europe
An image-based blood tracking data capture solution is helping to save lives and reduce waste in hospitals across Europe. BloodTrack Courier, a sophisticated kiosk PC, controls and logs access to blood storage refrigerators in hospitals. The system has recently been enhanced by a 5080 image engine from Hand Held Products. BloodTrack Courier was developed by […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 23.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 23 November, featuring supplier news, events, and awards. Supplier News BT looks at Middle East opportunities to expand health business BT’s International Health Advisory Board is meeting senior members of the Qatar business community and representatives of government organisations to discuss e-health business opportunities in […]
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Danish software extracts records digitally
Denmark’s largest hospital, Odense University Hospital, has implemented OnBase, Hyland Software’s suite of enterprise content management (ECM) software applications. The solution, which integrates with the hospital’s Cosmic Electronic Health Record (EHR) System, has helped users to retrieve documents associated with a patient’s EHR 64 times faster than previous manual paper processes, the hospital says. Odense […]
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Graphnet complete Gwent out-of-hours pilot
Graphnet has completed deployment of a new Out of Hours system that will extract demographic patient records from the majority of 96 GP practices in Gwent, South Wales. Over 70 of the 96 GP practices in Gwent have started sharing information with the out-of-hours (OOH) service, making nearly 400,000 records available. Informing Healthcare say this […]
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