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IT staff must adapt to outsourcing, say BCS

The British Computer Society (BCS) has published a report broadly welcoming the trend to outsource staff abroad, saying that the
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GE wins £110m PACS contract for South of England

GE Healthcare has signed with Fujitsu Services Ltd to provide Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) across the whole of
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Ascribe seeks AIM listing

Medicines management software specialist, Ascribe is poised to seek a listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and raise £5.5m to
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Evening classes for electronic records?

Adult education courses to explain what the new electronic patient care record does and how it can be used in
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Patient database to boost research

The University of Birmingham is piloting a new computer network that will allow clinicians to register patients for clinical trials and
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BMS UK takes over healthcare biometrics firm

Healthcare IT vendor Business Management Solutions UK has taken over ISL, from which it purchased biometric authentication software and hardware for
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InPS acquires retail pharmacy IT solution

Healthcare IT systems specialist, In Practice Systems (InPS), has announced the acquisition of the UK arm of NDCHealth whose Pharmacy
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Surgeon tags patients with WiFi to improve safety

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital is claiming to have the world’s first pilot of wireless active tagging system for patients, with links
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Great Ormond Street selects Tomcat for cardiac system

Belfast-based Tomcat Clinical Systems, the supplier of specialist Cardiac Information Systems has signed a contract with London’s Great Ormond Street
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McKesson launches digital medical photograph solution

McKesson today announced the launch of its PhotoManager, software designed to allow clinical staff to access digital medical photographs of
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