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Choice finished near-bottom of the list out of a list of 82 priorities shown to patients in a study carried out for the government health regulator, the Healthcare Commission. read more »
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Australian health information firm IBA Health Ltd. has agreed to buy the UK's iSoft Group for about £140m, plus debt. read more »
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Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, has experienced persistent problems getting its new Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)-provided iSoft iPM patient administration system and iCM clinical software to communicate with clinical requests sent from iCM not being picked up by iPM. read more »
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Lack of effective communication and delivery delays are leaving trusts disenfranchised and weakening local commitment to rolling out the National Programme for IT creating risks to patient safety, leading academics have warned. read more »
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Suffolk Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Suffolk Primary Care Trust have deployed a new voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system to be used with a new Cisco unified communications system provided by Cisilion. read more »
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The Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is using a new electronic document management system called ViewPortal Healthcare from SpectrumITech to store paper documents electronically and make them available to staff. read more »
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Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) NHS Trust has told E-Health Insider that a year and a half after going live with the Cerner Millennium Release Zero (R0) patient administration system, the system 'is still presenting problems' including the system not being Choose and Book compliant. read more »
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The chairman of the British Medical Association, James Johnson, resigned from his position last night following criticism of his handling of the BMA's response to the botched Medical Training Application System (MTAS). read more »
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All hospitals in England will receive new Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) by 2008, the Department of Health has announced. read more »
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