Microsoft to buy Sentillion
Microsoft is to buy Sentillion, a specialist in single sign-on technology for the healthcare industry.
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Vodafone to launch mobile health unit
Vodafone has announced that it will establish a new mobile health unit in Newbury to develop mobile healthcare solutions. Vittorio Colao, chief executive of Vodafone, told an audience at the Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit in London that he believed that mobile technology has a significant role to play in the provision of healthcare. He said […]
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Kingston hits go-live date with Cerner
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has confirmed that it has gone live with its Cerner Millennium Care Records Service programme.
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EHI’s industry round up 30.11.2009
This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers news about system deployments, company partnerships, product launches and other developments in healthcare IT. Allocate Software launches expenses module Allocate Software has launched an expenses module to help ease the administrative burden for staff entering, approving and processing expense claims. Paul Scandrett, director of healthcare at Allocate said: […]
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Hospital IT ‘does not cut costs’
Computerising hospitals delivers a small improvement in quality but does not cut costs, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine. Indeed, the detailed correlation of data from a hospital computerisation survey, cost reports and quality scores, shows that the hospitals that have computerised fastest in the past decade have also seen […]
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£130m for telecare and home help
The government has pledged to invest £130m in initiatives such as telecare and home adaptations as part of its free personal care measures outlined in the Queen’s Speech.
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Moorfields merges help desks
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has implemented service management software from Hornbill enabling it to consolidate its three service desks into one. The trust has rolled-out Hornbill’s Supportworks ITSM service management software to provide support to over 1,200 clinical and administrative staff across 11 sites in London. The software enables 18 staff in the IT […]
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UnitedHealth buys ScriptSwitch for £50m
ScriptSwitch, the provider of drug comparison software to doctors’ surgeries, has been acquired by UnitedHealth UK, for a reported sum of £50m.
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Once more with feeling
Jon Hoeksma talks to Kate Grimes, chief executive of Kingston Hospital NHS Trust, about its impending go-live with Cerner Millennium.
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