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Philips buys US PACS firm Stentor

  Royal Philips Electronics is to acquire Stentor, a US firm specialising in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) for
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Granger issues stern warning for failing suppliers

Richard Granger, director general of NHS IT and chief executive of NHS Connecting for Health, has delivered another stern warning
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Forrest answers NPfIT communication concerns

  Martyn Forrest, Regional Implementation Director (RID) for the North East cluster and acting RID for London, has promised to
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Cerner and Fujitsu reach agreement on Southern Cluster

US health IT supplier, Cerner Corporation, and local service provider for England’s Southern NHS Cluster, Fujitsu, have agreed a memorandum
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Knowledge base for non-NHS audience launched

  The NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has launched a public version of its Clinical and Health
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UCLH makes switch to Carecast

University College London Hospitals NHS Trust has become the first in the country to go live with the new electronic
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Barts and The London chooses Ensemble for integration

 Barts and The London NHS Trust has selected InterSystems’ Ensemble universal integration platform to integrate systems at its three hospitals
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GPs vote against NHS Connecting for Health

Despite improved relationships with the leadership of the BMA, last week’s Local Medical Committees’ (LMC) conference revealed just how far
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Computer access for hospital doctors poor, say BMA

Some hospital doctors are expressing concerns that they do not have enough access to computers and e-mail to do their
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LMCs to debate no confidence motion in PCOs IT

IT funding for GPs, Choose and Book and patient confidentiality are all set to be the subject of criticism from
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