Imprivata secures 35 NHS SSO deals
Single-sign on specialist, Imprivata, is now working with 35 acute NHS trusts, enabling all desktop applications to be accessed using just one set of log-in details through its OneSign application. Onesign is being deployed across the NHS to enable clinicians to access vital patient information as quickly, easily and securely as possible. It ensures that […]
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Suppliers set out vision for ASCC
EHI spoke to a number of ASCC lot 2 suppliers to see what they hope to achieve from the new framework. Joe Fernandez reports.
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McKesson launch whiteboard monitoring system
McKesson’s Horizon Enterprise Visibility McKesson has launched its Horizon Enterprise Visibility product – a whiteboard style system that provides real time information of a room’s availability, patient location and the current status of a patient’s treatment – to the UK market. McKesson say the system is the first visual control system designed specifically for hospitals, […]
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Oxford deploy new electronic discharge system
Around 4000 staff at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust are using a new Immediate Discharge Document (e-IDD) software package from CSW to enable hospital-wide collaboration when each inpatient is discharged. The busy hospital currently has approximately 521,000 outpatient appointments every year and wanted a way of enabling its ward-based doctors and pharmacists to work together […]
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Dublin’s St James’s links speech and radiology
Ireland’s largest hospital, St James’s Hospital in Dublin, is using Nuance Communication’s PowerScribe dictaphone system to automate the creation of patient radiology reports using speech recognition. The Nuance system has been integrated with St James’s Cerner-supplied RadNet radiology system. In its first week of use, Nuance say PowerScribe has enabled the radiology department of the […]
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Aintree to go-live with digital dictation
The Aintree University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has selected G2 Speech’s speech recognition technology for a trust-wide implementation in April. G2 Speech’s MediSpeech, powered by Philips SpeechMagic, will be installed at the trust’s two hospitals for clinicians and secretaries to use to improve turnaround times in getting diagnosis letters sent to GPs. MediSpeech identifies section […]
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Philips buys Tomcat Systems
Dutch IT giant Royal Philips Electronics has announced it will acquire Tomcat Systems Ltd, a Northern Ireland-based supplier of cardiac information systems, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Tomcat provides integrated cardiac care software said to provide a comprehensive, patient-centric presentation of patient data and the ability to address both clinical and operational needs. […]
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IHE to run first UK Connectathon
Next month a major milestone for clinical interoperability in healthcare will be achieved, with the first Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Connectathon.
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EHI’s industry news roundup 08.02.08
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 8 February 2008 featuring supplier news, product launches, and events. Supplier news COA wins £3.6m NHSScotland deal COA Solutions has won a £3.6m contract to supply all 22 Scottish health boards with a comprehensive portfolio of financial, procurement support, business intelligence and document management software […]
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Medway and Frimley Park choose EuroKing
Medway NHS Trust and the Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have chosen EuroKing Miracle’s web-based maternity information system to improve care of mothers and their babies. The two deals are the latest in the busy maternity information systems market, where a growing number of NHS trusts are procuring maternity systems. EuroKing Miracle will supply […]
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