N3 deal given two more years
The Department of Health is set to extend its N3 contract with BT for another two years; but is starting to consult on what will replace it.
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N3 Voice Services reaches 100th site
N3 Voice Services is due to implement its 100th N3 VoIP site today. Len Chard, NHS Connecting for Health’s programme head of N3, said the milestone showed how the service had developed since the NHS’ broadband network was VoIP-enabled in July 2007. “N3 Voice has not been very high profile since then, but over the […]
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Nottinghamshire implements VoIP
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust has announced that it has completed the implementation of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform from Proximity Communications. Previously the trust, a specialist in treating patients with mental health and learning disabilities, ran different telephony systems at various sites, which became complex and costly. Martin Harrison, telecoms project manager at […]
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Leicester uses FrontRange for SAM
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust has bought 8,000 FrontRange SAM Suite licences to improve control of its IT inventory. Technical security specialist David Rose it became interested in software asset management after it learned about NHS Connecting for Health’s National Infrastructure Maturity Model (NIMM) and how it affected access to licences in Microsoft’s Enterprise Agreement […]
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Five priorities for primary care IT
Grassroots GP Dr Neil Paul outlines the five priorities for NHS IT that have been identified in his area.
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Centre Hospitalier installs MediVista
Click to enlarge France’s Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy has installed an advanced bedside communications and entertainment system supplied by Ireland-based Lincor Solutions. The MediVista system enables both patient bedside entertainment and provides authorised hospital staff with access to clinical data. The new system has been implemented across all 620 beds at Centre Hospitalier […]
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Health failing to count the cost of phone failures
A new survey says that a third of people working in healthcare have experienced having their phone cut off due to problems such as equipment failures or cables being accidently cut. The YouGov survey says that 30% of those questioned said they have had their company telephone connection cut off due to failures caused by […]
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Malta’s Mater Dei gets bedside entertainment
Irish based patient entertainment specialist, Lincor Solutions, has implemented its bedside TV and clinical access system, MEDIVista at the Mater Dei hospital in Malta, in a deal worth over €1.6m. The new system, delivered in partnership with Melita Cable, has been implemented across all 825 beds at the Mater Dei hospital and will enable patients […]
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Kent and Medway use COIN for cardiac care
Kent informatics staff at Darent Valley A new Community of Interest Network (COIN) at Kent and Medway is helping cardiac surgeons consult with specialists in London, and provide treatment on the same day where appropriate. Cardiac surgeons at the trust regularly consult with specialists in London to decide if angiogram images of the heart show […]
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Worcestershire connect to COIN for joined-up working
All NHS sites in Worcestershire are to be connected to a single Community of Interest Network (COIN) to allow information and data to be shared almost instantly between staff at any time. The Worcestershire health community has signed a five year deal with BT, working in conjunction with Nortel and Microsoft, to create a unified […]
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