Siemens Healthcare plans to divest its hospital information system business (HS) for US$ 1.3 billion (around €963 million) in cash to the US-based company Cerner Corp. The HS business is focused on administrative hospital IT and electronic patient records, thus different from information technology that enhances the capabilities of imaging modalities and laboratory equipment.

By Malcolm Senior, director of informatics at Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black" were the famous words by Henry Ford, one of the first to master the principles of mass production. Over a century later, you can buy a car in nearly any colour you want, complete with a range of ‘mod cons’, through a financial package tailored to your affordability.

Leading NHS business support specialist, NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is developing an NHS-wide framework for the procurement of healthcare clinical information systems that will save Trusts both time and money compared with procuring these specialist systems individually.

Leading software provider, Advanced Health & Care (Advanced) has won a major contract with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust), one of the UK's largest mental health trusts, following a formal tendering process.

An overwhelming majority of the British public - 85% - want any healthcare professional treating them to have secure electronic access to key data from the GP record, according to new research from YouGov. The majority of these believe this would:

HIMSS Europe just announced the newly appointed board members of the HIMSS Europe Governing Council, Pilar Raro-Garnes, MBA, PMP, Michiel Sprenger, PhD , and Professor Philippe Kolh, MD, PhD, commenced their work on 1 July 2014. They will serve a three-year term until 30 June 2017.

North Tyneside General Hospital, largest of three district general hospitals within Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, has installed a CARESTREAM DRX-Revolution Mobile X-ray unit for mobile imaging in departments throughout the hospital, including Emergency Care, ITU, Paediatrics and across both medical and surgical wards.