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FairWarning®, the global leader in patient privacy monitoring, has contributed to Intellect's response to the government's plans for a paperless NHS. In its report 'Digitising the NHS by 2018', the UK's technology association provides its views on achieving this important challenge.
NHS Scotland has further strengthened its strategic partnership with Carestream Health by signing an amendment to the long standing contract between the two organisations. The company will supply CARESTREAM Vue Mammography PACS to all of Scotland's Breast Screening Centres located at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee and Irvine.
In these austere times, when the NHS is charged with delivering efficiency challenges of £120 billion, the adoption of an integrated, IT-driven healthcare system is seen as an important move, enabling the introduction of new services, saving time (and money) and providing more efficient operations and better informed decision making.
After evaluating other vendors, Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan, in the Italian region of Lombardy, has ordered a suite of CARESTREAM Vue solutions to simplify workflow and boost productivity. The 5-year contract also includes a managed service agreement.
13 - 15 May 2013, Dublin, Ireland.
IMS MAXIMS will highlight the need for systems that support NHS trusts with the early diagnosis and improved care of patients with dementia at the forthcoming national health IT conference and exhibition, HC2013.
9 - 11 April 2013, Berlin, Germany.
EMIS has announced a major landmark in the rollout of EMIS Web - over 2,000 GP practices have now upgraded to the transformational healthcare system, making it the most widely used GP system in England. A total of 2,007 GP practices have moved to EMIS Web, with orders placed for a further 1,200; 2,564 practices have joined the EMIS GP familiarisation service, as a first step to upgrading to the system.