Agfa delivers PACS to the private sector
Agfa Healthcare have announced two new contracts with private hospital chains to install their Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) software, IMPAX 6.2. The Belgian-based image-specialists have confirmed that they will be delivering the PACS system along with other medical imaging systems to both the Nuffield Hospitals group and the Classic Hospitals group. Nuffield Hospitals […]
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NHS ramps up spend on management consultants
Spending on management consultants across the public sector has reached a record a record £3bn a year, with an increase of over a third in the past two years, according to new figures released by the National Audit Office. The increase in spending over the past two years is largely driven by the increased use […]
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Kodak to implement PACS in Tuscany
Kodak has agreed a five year deal worth €20m to install its Carestream software in the south-east region of Tuscany, Italy. Carestream PACS and information management solutions will be deployed in 14 hospitals, allowing them to centrally archive, view and manage the records of over 800,000 patients. The hospitals handle over a million radiological examinations […]
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Wales to tender for GP software at national standards
Wales is to go out to tender for GP software suppliers to comply with a national framework contract in a move mirroring developments in England. A new strategy devised by the Wales Primary Care IM&T programme, GP Clinical Systems: A Strategic Framework, states that national minimum specification standards will also be developed which suppliers will be […]
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Newcastle looks outside CfH for maternity
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for a new maternity system and key elements of a new electronic health record system, outside the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The trust is making the move to mitigate risks created by delays to the Connecting for Health programme growing beyond the current two […]
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NHS Grampian to get in-car telemedicine
Adastra Software has won a tender to supply its unscheduled care case management software to NHS Grampian, and to provide 12 in-car mobile data terminals. The terminals will run the remote module, Aremote, enabling clinicians to send and receive secure patient information wherever they might be. The contract aims to drive efficiency and reduce data errors by […]
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CSC says it will implement iPM at Bradford in six months
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which had gone outside the NHS National Programme for IT to procure for a new patient administration system, has come back into the fold. The trust has signed a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) to implement iSoft’s iPM in just six months, in a deal underwitten by NHS […]
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Lengthy delivery for NPfIT maternity systems
The delivery of new maternity systems as part of the NHS IT programme has stalled, E-Health Insider has learned. Not a single hospital has yet received a new system, and a leading obstetrician has warned that the delays are creating potential “clinical risks” to mothers and children. The lengthy delays to maternity software are causing […]
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Heart of England procures independently on PACS
Heart of England Foundation NHS Trust in Birmingham has gone outside the nationally negotiated NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) contract to tender for a full digital imaging solution comprising picture archive and communications system (PACS). Earlier this month the trust has placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for PACS, […]
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Newcastle goes out to tender for EPR
Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to break ranks with the NHS Connecting for Health IT programme and go out to tender for a new clinical information system. The large acute trust has this month placed an advert in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) for a new […]
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