EHI’s industry news roundup 08.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 8 February 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, and events. Supplier news COA wins £3.6m NHSScotland deal COA Solutions has won a £3.6m contract to supply all 22 Scottish health boards with a comprehensive portfolio of financial, procurement support, business intelligence and document management software […]
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DH to award £80m contract for NHS Choices
The Department of Health has gone out to tender to find a new supplier to run the NHS Choices patient information website, in a lucrative three year deal initially worth £60-80m. The chosen supplier will be expected to generate in excess of 20m hits to the NHS Choices website, together with generating significant revenue from […]
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Lanarkshire’s mobile single assessment commended
North Larnakshire Council finished second at the Local Government IT Excellence Awards 2007 for their use of its single shared assessment software from Integral Mobile Data (IMD) on mobile devices. The council has been using IMD’s Integral mForms single assessment solution on mobile devices as part of its MySWIS Mobile Assessment project. mySWIS Mobile Assessment […]
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ASCC long list published
Connecting for Health has published the long list for its Additional Supply Capability and Capacity (ASCC) procurement with 116 companies named. The ASCC procurement is intended to establish a series of IT framework contracts that can be used by CfH and other purchasers to a “broad based supplier community”. The IT framework contracts will comprise […]
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Guernsey awards EPR contract to TrakHealth
The Health & Social Services Department of Guernsey has awarded TrakHealth a ten-year deal to provide all healthcare providers on the island with an integrated electronic patient records (EPR) system. The integrated EPR, based on a system called TrakCare, will be used to support the delivery of comprehensive health and social care services to the […]
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DH blasted for ‘back room deal’ with Dr Foster
The Department of Health ignored procurement guidelines and pursued a ‘back room deal’ on NHS information which was ‘handed to Dr Foster on a plate’, according to a committee of MPs. Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has today heavily criticised the DH for agreeing a joint venture with health informatics company Dr Foster without putting […]
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Newgate Technology begins Northern Ireland EPR roll-out
Newgate Technology, a Scottish-based health software and data collection specialist, has won a tender to deploy a regional theatre management system into 16 hospitals in Northern Ireland. As part of the project Newgate have begun work on piloting their theatre electronic patient record (EPR) software, a system called Nexus, at the Belfast City Hospital. The […]
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Cancer researchers link by video
Joe Fernandez looks at how the CancerGrid project is using video conferencing technology to link researchers from Belfast to Cambridge.
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Commission tender for economic study of eHealth
A tender for a study on the economic impact of interoperable electronic health records and e-prescriptions in Europe has been released by the European Commission’s Directorate General for the Information Society. The winner of the procurement will be commissioned to do a study on economic aspects of e-health in general and more specifically in relation […]
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Liverpool Women’s get WiFi ticket to roam
Liverpool women’s has become the latest trust to become a wireless hotspot. Joe Fernandez looks at the benefits of being able to roam and treat.
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