Hospitals need to get to grips with IT – Nuffield report
NHS hospital boards need to get to grips with the potential benefits and pitfalls of implementing information technology, a new report from the Nuffield Trust urges.
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Bupa selects MedSpeech digital dictation
Sweden’s Euromed Networks and e-Dict have been awarded a contract to supply MedSpeech digital dictation with integrated SpeechMagic speech recognition for the radiology department at the private Bupa Cromwell Hospital, London. e-Dict is the UK distributor of MedSpeech, a dictation and speech recognition solution for healthcare developed by Euromed Networks. MedSpeech is integrated with Nuance’s […]
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IMS Italy integrates Barco displays
Medical imaging specialist Barco has been awarded a major display contract from IMS for the delivery of clinical review displays. IMS (Internazionale Medico Scientifica) is an Italian specialist in breast imaging technologies, best known for Giotto Image. It will integrate the new MDRC displays into its Raffaello image acquisition workstations. ”We thoroughly evaluated Barco’s MDRC […]
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French hospital gets Smart
JAOtech Obie Smart More than 600 JAOtech Obie Smart Terminals, for use by clinicians and patients, have been installed at the Centre Hospitalier de la Region d’Annecy in South East France. The deployment of the 17-inch all-in-one terminals, which provide medical staff with secure access to clinical data at the patients’ bedside, is believed to […]
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Switchover to Digital Britain
The government has confirmed that it wants universal access to 2Mbps broadband by 2012, arguing that this is vital for the future of commercial and public services. Its Digital Britain report, published yesterday, also sets out plans for a “digital switchover” for public services once the 2Mbps universal service commitment has been achieved. This would […]
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European hospitals share real-time videos
Hospitals in Norway, Italy and Spain have been linked together using an advanced video conferencing system enabling them to share real-time images of surgery for training and diagnosis. The systems were linked as part of a demonstration at the Terena Networking Conference in Malaga this week, intended to show how similar telemedicine systems could improve […]
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Burnham wants ‘health service fit for the digital age’
New health secretary Andy Burnham has said that despite the NHS’ coming financial problems, he still wants to see a health service fit for the digital age. Speaking at the NHS Confederation conference in Liverpool this morning, Burnham insisted that the NHS still had space to focus on reshaping its services focus on quality and […]
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Carestream wins Belgium PACS contracts
Carestream Health has won three contracts for Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) for mammography images in the French-speaking region of Belgium. The three PACS deals cover: a regional programme for mammography screening; mobile mammography screening; and screening in a private radiology clinic. The three deals will all support the regional Communauté Française mammography screening […]
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Trafford chooses SRC for digital dictation
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust has announced it is deploying a trust wide digital dictation solution from SRC, based on WinScribe digital dication technology. Vincent Doyle, project leader at the trust said: “SRC is providing us with a platform that has the capability to streamline document creation processes now and in the future, in line with our own […]
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Microsoft does cross-government deal
The Treasury has signed a cross-government deal with Microsoft that will allow licenses to be transferred across the public sector. The value of the deal signed by the Office of Government Commerce Buying Solutions agency has not been disclosed. However, the government claims it will save the public sector £75m over five years. The deal […]
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