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HIS market ‘near saturation’: Frost

The Hospital Information Systems Market in Europe is reaching saturation point and vendors will need to find new revenue streams
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Lloydspharmacy installs virtual GPs

High street pharmacy giant Lloydspharmacy is rolling out 300 ‘virtual GPs’ to enable customers to consult a doctor remotely and
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Survey of Spanish docs online

A third of Spanish doctors say that patient’s looking up details of their condition online can complicate their relationship with
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Bupa carries out SWIFT migration

UK health insurer, Bupa, has completed a large scale migration of data as part of the consolidation of legacy applications
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St Jude connects to implantable devices

Implantable medical device specialist St Jude Medical has launched Merlin.net, a secure, Internet-based remote care system for patients with implanted
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Piedmont implements Carestream PACS/RIS

The Maggiore della Carità Hospital in Novara, Piedmont, Italy, has begun implementation of a RIS/PACS solution from Carestream Health. The
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Flu Line staff reduced

The Department of Health has reduced the number of call centre staff delivering the National Pandemic Flu Service. The DH
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ICNet secures Irish contract

ICNet International has won a contract from the Irish Health Executive to install its healthcare associated infection surveillance and case
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3,000 members for Birmingham OwnHealth

Birmingham OwnHealth has just seen its active membership top 3,000 for the first time. The telephone help service is a
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Dashboards available from October

The roll out of clinical intelligence systems – or clinical dashboards – could be partly supported by central funding.  
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