Portsmouth pioneers reverse e-auction for generic drugs
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust claimed an e-health first this week with an announcement that it had completed the UK’s first reverse online pharmaceutical supplies auction. A reverse auction works, as the name suggests, in the opposite way to a conventional auction in which prices start low and bidders increase their offers. In Portsmouth’s reverse auction […]
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South Manchester Chooses InFocus Health
In Focus Health Ltd has won the contract tender to supply South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust with its web-based clinical performance reporting and benchmarking system. InFocus Health will supply South Manchester with its HiPPO 21 system. Installation is due to begin immediately with the system due to be rolled out to 250 users across […]
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Online Recruitment Plan for NHS in England
Details of the long-delayed project to put NHS jobs in England online have emerged from the Department of Health (DH). A pilot electronic recruitment service is due in summer 2003 and a full-roll out is expected in late 2003 or early 2004. Sites for NHS jobs in Wales and Scotland are already up and running […]
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Digital TV Service Goes To Tender
A national healthcare digital television (DTV) service took a step nearer to becoming a reality this week with the issue of an advertisement inviting expressions of interest from suitable suppliers. The advertisement published in the press and as an OJEC notice sets a deadline of 22 May for submissions. The tender document accompanying the invitation […]
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NHS Wales Launches Online Jobs Service
The NHS in Wales has launched a jobs service which brings health service vacancies together on a single web site. The site allows users to search for jobs by category, organisation, salary, hours, keywords and geographical area in Wales. It is open to existing NHS staff who want to change jobs and to the public. […]
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IBM Joins With ATOS KPMG Consulting
As first revealed by E-Health Insider last week IBM and ATOS KPMG Consulting are to bid jointly as a Local Service Provider (LSP) for the NHS National IT Programme and associated contracts. This week their senior health executives tell us why they believe the alliance matters. “It’s an extremely important move for us we’ve been […]
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National IT Programme Looks For Additional Expert Resources
Wanted: expert hands and heads to get the National IT Programme rolling asap. Director General of IT, Richard Granger, has issued an OJEC notice to recruit “additional expert programme management resources” for the delivery of NHS National Programme for IT, as set out in ‘Delivering 21st Century IT Support for the NHS’. With the contract […]
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Dudley Chooses Siemens for PACS
Siemens Medical Solutions have been awarded the contract to provide the latest imaging and picture archiving and communications system (PACS) technology for Dudley Hospital NHS Trust’s new PFI-build hospital currently under construction. Siemens Healthcare Services is the managed technology service provider for the 40-year PFI contract. Acting on behalf of the trust the company managed […]
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Optimum HealthWare Wins North Cheshire Contract
North Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Optimum HealthWare for its MultiVue patient indexing tool to provide a single view of patients’ details across multiple systems and sites. The trust, formed from a merger of Halton and Warrington Hospitals, has patient administration, clinical and departmental legacy systems, each with their own patient […]
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Mid-Staffs Selects iSOFT for EPR
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has signed a ten-year managed service contract with iSOFT to implement and manage a trust-wide EPR system covering two hospitals. The contract includes the supply and implementation of a complete EPR solution and will support in excess of 2,400 users at Staffordshire General Hospital and Cannock Chase Hospital. Replacement of […]
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