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Voxar provides Bournemouth with 3D PACS view

Edinburgh-based picture archiving and communication system (PACS) software specialist Voxar, has won a contract to supply the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’s
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E-prescribing benefits flow for Liverpool hospital

Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Trust has announced the completion of e-prescribing in all but one of its in-patient clinical areas. 
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NAO to investigate National Programme for IT

In an unusual move the £6.2 billion National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is to be investigated by the National Audit
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Patients get cybercafe with teleconferencing info link

Patients in Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, East Yorkshire are now able to access online details about waiting times for their
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Hull green lights A&E patient progress software

IT staff at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust have developed an alert system for the A&E department that displays each
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The productivity guessing game

Introducing new IT systems should improve productivity - but how will the NHS know? Healthcare commentator, Roy Lilley, doubts whether
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Sun awarded ‘tactical’ NHS desktop contract

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has concluded an evaluation project with Sun Microsystems over the potential use of Sun’s
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Market for health IT most favourable for big business

The European market for health information systems is likely to expand rapidly, but a number of difficulties stand in the
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EMIS hits back at ‘speculation and misrepresentation’

Leading UK primary care IT supplier EMIS has issued new guidance to practices using its systems stating the firm’s long-term
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Partnership may make e-health widely available in US

Allscripts, whose strategic partners include HP and Microsoft, has just announced a new link with US-based clinical directory Medem which
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