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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Online lottery for NHS dentist registration
A company contracted to set up eight new NHS dental practices in North Wales are encouraging prospective patients to apply for registration online or by text, to prevent people from queuing up outside to register. Online and text list application was stipulated by the local health boards as part of the tender for supplying NHS […]
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Northumbria goes outside NPfIT for PAS
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a patient administration system as a result of delays in the availability of a suitable system that meets the trust’s requirements under the NHS national programme for IT. The acute hospital trust this week placed a procurement notice in the Official Journal of the European […]
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Missing link
Kingsley Manning from Newchurch wonders where the IT is in the new community care white paper, and what contribution CfH will have to make for its success.
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Hammersmith chooses Technidata for blood transfusion
Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a contract with Technidata to replace its two existing blood transfusion systems with TD-BloodBank, a component of the firm’s TD-Synergy integrated Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The trust has also signed up to pilot Pocket TD-BloodBank, a portable version of the software that provides access from networked and handheld […]
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iSoft in £10.6m deal to buy Spain’s Novasoft
iSoft the UK based healthcare solutions specialist, has bought leading Spanish healthcare IT provider, Novasoft Sanidad, in an agreement structured to cost up to £10.6m (€15.6m). The acquisition covers 100% of Novasoft and will involve paying an initial £6.1m (€9 million) in cash and 470,119 iSoft ordinary shares. iSoft’s announcement says a further consideration of […]
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PASA greenlights new electronic tendering system
The NHS Purchasing and Supply Agency (PASA) has announced the successful first month’s trial of its new electronic tendering system, and that the system will now be permanently installed. The web-based e-tendering software, supplied by BravoSolution, will now handle all invitations to tender and submissions by suppliers. The system allows buyers and suppliers to browse […]
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Cerner wins Wirral system replacement contract
US health systems specialists, Cerner Corporation, have been named as the preferred supplier to replace the ageing clinical IT system at Wirral Hospital NHS Trust. The contract win was widely predicted for Cerner at the trust which credited with much pioneering work on the use of IT in acute NHS care. The independent procurement outside […]
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Free UK online health journal planned
The Wellcome Trust and the US National Library of Medicine are intending to set up a UK-based version of the free open-access online health research directory PubMed Central. Unlike conventional pay-for-access print and online journals, PubMed Central is freely available, with funding coming from researchers paying to have their papers included. The research charity has […]
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PACS installed across rural Welsh NHS Trust
North West Wales NHS Trust is to implement LifeImaging PACS software from Ferrania across its nine hospitals, many of which fall in rural areas. According to Ferrania, the filmless system will have particular benefits for the trust as it will save them money and time transporting copies of files between sites, as well as cutting […]
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