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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Thousands of Lab samples ‘mislabelled’

Tens of thousands of clinical samples are being wrongly labelled when they arrived at NHS pathology laboratories, an investigation has
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US hospital EMR sales slumped in 2008

US sales of electronic medical record systems to large hospitals fell to a seven year low in 2008. Sales of
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Surrey and Sussex to stick with Cerner

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has dropped plans to abandon Cerner for an iSoft alternative. Instead, the trust will
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iSoft bullish on annual results

Australian health IT firm iSoft says that it expects to implement its first Lorenzo 1.9 site during the course of
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iSoft purchases BridgeForward

Australian health software specialist iSoft has purchased US hospital data integration specialist BridgeForward for £9m. The acquisition gives iSoft a
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Conservatives pledge to ‘halt’ LSP deals

The Conservative party has pledged to scrap the NHS Spine and halt and re-negotiate the two main contracts with BT
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Conservatives to ‘dismantle’ NPfIT

The Conservatives have promised to “dismantle Labour's central NHS IT infrastructure” and instead move to a choice of local accredited
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Web-based cardiology PACS launched

Carestream Health has launched a new web-based cardiology Picture Archiving and Communications System. The new cardiology imaging system offers a
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London carnival on hold for RiO

Further implementations of the latest RiO community and mental health software in London and the South have been put on
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