Alcatel-Lucent chosen by North Bristol
North Bristol NHS Trust has awarded a contract to Alcatel-Lucent to provide it with an advanced IP telephony system. The project is being carried out by South West Communications Group. The £2m investment will also provide an advanced communications infrastructure for a new ‘super hospital’ in Bristol, scheduled for completion in 2013. The deployment includes […]
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Bupa carries out SWIFT migration
UK health insurer, Bupa, has completed a large scale migration of data as part of the consolidation of legacy applications onto SWIFT, its new unified administrative platform.
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iSoft restructuring puts jobs at risk
ISoft is working on a restructuring project that could lead to almost a third of its UK front line support and delivery staff being made redundant.
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EC demands in-car emergency systems
The European Commission has made a final call to EU countries to implement in-car technology that alerts the emergency services if the car is involved in an accident. In a document entitled ‘eCall – saving lives through in-vehicle communication technology’, the Commission warns that if there is no significant progress in rolling out the system […]
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Tunstall calls for government action
Tunstall has called on the government to follow through on its policy to make telehealth “integral rather than marginal” after announcing that it will be making up to 70 people redundant due to falling sales. James Buckley, Tunstall’s chief executive, said: “We’ve had some good government policies over the past few years, including strategies to […]
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iSoft bullish on annual results
Australian health IT firm iSoft says that it expects to implement its first Lorenzo 1.9 site during the course of the first half of 2010, and complete development of Lorenzo 2.0 later the same year. Speaking as iSoft released its annual results, company chief executive Gary Cohen said: “We are on schedule to deliver on […]
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Time to change the record?
E-Health Insider’s Sarah Bruce gauges reaction to the Conservatives’ response to the independent review of NHS IT.
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Cerner predicts more FT contract wins
Cerner expects its annual UK turnover to rise by around £25m, to as much £61m, as more NHS foundation trusts select its electronic record software and it collects revenue from the National Programme for IT in the NHS. Cerner, which provides its Millennium software in London and parts of the South under local service provider […]
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Entra launches diabetic alert system
MyGlucoHealth Meter US-telehealth specialist Entra Health Systems has launched a patient messaging and alerts system designed to support diabetics who use MyGlucoHealth Meter, a platform developed to allow people to self-monitor glucose levels. The new system allows users of the MyGlucoseHealth bluetooth blood glucose meter and MyGlucoHealth Network, which automatically collects results from patients and […]
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