Medical Students Targeted for Mindwarp
A new web-based e-learning service which promises to helps medical students learn faster and get better exam results has been launched in the UK. Developed and produced by UK firm Mindwarp Pavilion , the e-learning tool is said to allow medical students to use simple mind mapping techniques to revise chosen subjects on-line. Mindwarp’s technology […]
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Fife Signs up for Oasis
Fife Acute Hospitals Trust has awarded a 15-year contract for electronic patient records (EPR) to Siemens Healthcare who will be provide the Oasis EPR system supplied by its British healthcare systems strategic partners Elan Technologies. Oasis will be delivered in the form of e-oasis, Elan’s browser-based EPR that has been designed to simplify the collection […]
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Newchurch Aims to Put PCTs in Frames
Newchurch Ltd , the UK provider of IT solutions and consultancy services for the healthcare sector, has launched a web-enabled management system for primary care organisations and primary care trusts (PCTs). The new system, called Frames, is a managed intranet solution designed to equip primary care organisations and their staff with a comprehensive common information and […]
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Microsoft Launches NHS Integration Vision
Microsoft has launched a blueprint which it says will enable the NHS to integrate health legacy IT systems cost-effectively and deliver joined-up healthcare. The US software-giant describes its vision as EAI (Enterprise Application Integration), an approach grounded in Microsoft’s .NET suite of products to deliver joined-up, distributed web services. The emerging .NET strategy is based […]
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Path Links Contract Awarded to iSOFT
Path Links, the pioneering integrated pathology programme in Greater Lincolnshire, has placed the largest ever UK contract for Pathology Laboratory Information Management Systems with iSOFT for its APEX system. Money for the multi-million pound contract has come from the government’s pathology modernisation fund. APEX will be rolled out as one complete integrated system serving five […]
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Electronic Prescriptions Project Schedule Under Threat
One of the key figures behind the development of electronic transmission of prescriptions (ETP) in the UK has publicly questioned whether the Department of Health (DH) can achieve its target of rolling out ETP nationally by 2006. Ewan Davis, chairman of PharMed, which is leading the Transcript consortium — one of three approved ETP pilots […]
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InHealth Group Buys UK Arm of IBA Health
InHealth Group, the acquisitive UK health services, equipment and IM&T firm, today announced it has acquired the UK business of Australian health IT supplier IBA Health Limited The deal is valued at £5.2m excluding annual support fees and the option for future software licences. InHealth Group is also investing £1.8m in ordinary shares of IBA […]
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Is Telemedicine Finally Delivering the Goods?
Telemedicine is working hard to wipe out its reputation for producing interesting projects but not much real-life action – and papers at the Royal Society of Medicine’s TeleMed ’02 conference this week reflected that mission. Titled “From Research to Service Delivery”, the conference’s agenda clearly aimed to convince the sceptics and hard-headed budget holders that […]
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Living Health TV Wins International Media Award
Living Health, the interactive digital health TV service, has won a top prize at the prestigious 10th International EMMA (Electronic Multimedia) Awards in Hamburg, Germany. The service was Voted "best interactive TV service" by a panel of 50 global industry experts, beating interactive media services from over 40 countries. Living Health is currently delivering the […]
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Software Package Aims to Beat the Blues
The Priory Hospital North London is to trial an innovative PC-based multi-media tool called ‘Beating the Blues’ to help patients overcome depression and anxiety. The PC tool will be used together with face-to-face counselling and psychotherapy and is claimed to be able to help patients with or without the use of anti-depressant drugs. According to […]
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