7 January 2008

Philips buys patient monitoring specialist Visicu

Royal Philips Electronics has agreed to acquire US-based clinical IT firm Visicu for around €290m, to expand its patient monitoring
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7 January 2008

Taunton go-live with Cerner Millennium

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has become the eighth site in the South of England to go-live with the
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4 January 2008

EHI’s industry news roundup 04.01.08

E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 4 January, featuring supplier news, appointments, acquisitions and awards. Supplier
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4 January 2008

C+B incentives to go to extended access

GP incentive payments for Choose and Book will be redirected to pay for extended access to GP practices from April
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4 January 2008

NHS Direct demand breaks seasonal records

Over one million people contacted NHS Direct in England over the 11 day Christmas and New Year holidays, breaking all
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4 January 2008

MPs call for data loss to be a crime

Reckless or repeated breaches of data security should become a criminal offence, the House of Commons Justice Select Committee has
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3 January 2008

Cameron says NHS IT must be local

Conservative party leader David Cameron has attacked the NHS IT programme and called for local ownership and innovation. In a
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3 January 2008

CSW awarded contract for Welsh Individual Health Record

Informing Healthcare, the NHS Wales IT agency, has awarded a three year contract to CSW Group Ltd to commence implementation
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3 January 2008

Bosch buys Health Hero Network

German industrial giant, the Bosch Group, has acquired US telehealth specialist and innovator Health Hero Network Inc., which focuses on
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3 January 2008

Four-fifths of doctors say electronic record insecure

Four-fifths of doctors are concerned that current plans for patients’ health records to be available from a central database –
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