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22 November 2004

Implementing PACS

Dr Mahibur Rahman explains the benefits and costs of introducing picture archiving, and shows what can happen if things go
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17 November 2004

Cerner to buy private physician system supplier

Kansas-based Cerner Corp. has today announced that it has signed an agreement to buy the Medical Division of VitalWorks Inc,
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1 November 2004

Open source software could save NHS money

The Office of Government Commerce has made recommendations that public procurement of software should consider open source solutions, citing, amongst
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22 September 2004

Trusts told to end local PACS procurements

All English NHS trusts have been told they must immediately end any PACS (Picture Archiving and Storage System) procurements after
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21 September 2004

Rocky road ahead for NPfIT suppliers

The National Programme for IT favours large businesses over small and only amounts to a “contact database" for the NHS;
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26 August 2004

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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13 August 2004

Six new companies brought under NPfIT banner

The National Programme for IT have announced six new “enterprise-wide" agreements between suppliers of software and hardware infrastructure and services,
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13 July 2004

Dermatology telemedicine system wins innovation award

An innovative scheme that not only uses electronic referral and PACS but software that plots healing patterns based on archived images
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9 June 2004

Charing Cross introduces robotic drug dispensing

Two newly installed electronic dispensing systems at London’s Charing Cross Hospital, one of which uses robotics, are improving improving the speed and
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11 May 2004

NPfIT claims discounts of up to 80% on PACS

The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has stated that discounts of up to 80% have been secured in its negotiations with picture
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