EHI’s industry news roundup 02.11.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 2 November, featuring supplier news, implementations, product launches, awards and events. Supplier News Spire Healthcare take over BUPA hospitals Spire Healthcare, the new independent healthcare group, formerly BUPA hospitals, is planning to grow its business as it builds on its position as a leading player […]
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£100K savings on Plymouth data management
The Plymouth Healthcare Community claims £100,000 worth of capital investment savings by deploying a new data storage solution to ensure full backup of its 18 terabyte data centre. The community estimates that its Falcon IPStor virtualisation platform has reduced labour costs and time by the equivalent of one storage administrator, while the flexibility of the […]
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The XDS factor
Interest is growing in Cross Enterprise Document Sharing as a system for storing and transmitting clinical data. Nick Brown and Dave Harvey explain the basics.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 12.10.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 12 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and events, implementations and appointments. Implementations Mayday uses single sign on from Enline Staff at the Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to sign on to systems just the once to use any network applications, after […]
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Data Management: migration
For the IT manager in charge of getting data out of a legacy system and into a new PAS, the challenge can be daunting.
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PACS – worth the hype?
‘Your doctor will never look at you in the same way again’ – Joe Fernandez asks one radiologist at St Peter’s Hospital Chertsey what his experiences are digital x-rays have been.
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Finnish screening service instals Directview CR
Clinicians at the private Suomen Terveystalo OOyj screening service in Finland are benefiting from improved workflow efficiency and image quality after installing Kodak’s Directview CR systems with mammography from Carestream Health. The installation, in 40 of the private clinics, has led to a 50% reduction in referral to treatment time at the centres. Around ten […]
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UK Biobank begins recruiting using NHS data
UK Biobank, the medical research charity-backed DNA database, has begun using demographic data supplied by the NHS to begin recruiting half a million individuals to participate in the long-term research project. The Department of Health is helping the charity to invite the right people by using electronic NHS records to generate personalised invitations. UK Biobank […]
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Rhineland-Palatina to offer PHR to newborns
The German federal state of Rhineland-Palatina is to offer all its newborn infants a smartcard-based personal health record (PHR) on the internet, in a project beginning 2008. The project is believed to be the first time that a web-based personal health record will be offered across an entire German region. Rhineland-Palatina is a mid-size federal […]
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‘Widespread concerns’ about NPfIT penalties
In a new survey NHS foundation trusts have reported ‘widespread concerns’ about the limited functionality of key systems from the NHS National Programme for IT. Some foundation trusts (FTs) that have sought to delay taking systems until problems are fixed say they have been told to expect fines running into many millions of pounds. The FTs […]
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