After an eighteen month procurement process Intersystem have won the contract to supply NHS Scotland with their Patient Management System, TrakCare. The PMS includes general hospital patient administration, including mental health patient administration, scheduling and results reporting. There are other additional modules that can be integrated.
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Stephen Naysmith Published on 11 Sep 2009 Family doctors can do more to help patients with multiple long-term conditions such as obesity, heart disease and arthritis, according to researchers. A team from the University of Glasgow is to work with Stirling and Dundee universities as well as four GP practices to develop new ways to [...]
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By CATHERINE SALMOND TWO frail pensioners who fell in their homes last week received help within minutes thanks to new state-of-the-art alarms. The pair were among the first to be given the new neck pendant alarm connected direct to support staff under a joint city council and NHS Lothian scheme. In one case, a 90-year-old [...]
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New Technology from Cisco & Intel allows for greater possibilities in rural areas. Mobile World Congress 2009: 4G Possibilities to Life [youtube 3PA2osEMUic]
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Here is an opportunity to use Technology more effectively. VIEWPOINT By Dr Andrew Whitehouse Consultant physician, West Midlands Elderly people have to remain in hospital until social care is arranged Bed-blocking is an ongoing problem for the health service, with elderly patients stuck in hospital waiting for their long-term care to be arranged. In this [...]
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Here is a letter from Dr Charles Swainson in the Evening News. Centralised records improve healthcare I was dismayed to read Dr John Welford’s letter, “System to blame for record losses, not medical staff” (News, 31 July). Centralisation and computerisation of medical records have little to do with losing patients’ confidential medical information. The mass [...]
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Australia’s largest listed health information technology company today announced contract extensions in Northern Ireland totalling £8.4 million (A$17.4 million) for long-term support and maintenance services of its health information systems, including an option for one of the hospitals to progress to iSOFT’s next-generation Lorenzo solution. Under the agreements with the Department of Health, Social Services [...]
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Friday, 24 July 2009 Lumension®, the global leader in operational endpoint security, has been selected by NHS National Services Scotland to enforce security policies governing the storage of data on portable storage devices such as laptops, USB sticks and CDs or DVDs. NHS National Services Scotland procures IT software on behalf of the 22 Scottish [...]
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