Suppliers set to showcase a host of systems

With days to go to before Healthcare Computing 2008 opens in Harrogate, this special report showcases some of the highlights of the conference and exhibition.

E-Health Insider will be there too; if you want to meet up with our sales or editorial teams, get in touch at info@e-health-media.com.

In the first article, we look at what some of the suppliers have in store for visitors. Scroll down for further news and information about the conference and exhibition

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The Department of Health’s acting chief information officer, Matthew Swindells, who recently announced he is leaving his post, has been confirmed as the opening speaker at next month’s Healthcare Computing conference.

Swindells is due to tell the conference that IT professionals should “step forward and play their part” to help bring about changes in the NHS.

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Vision: My System of Choice

Vision is the system of choice for a continually growing number of GP practices across the UK. As well as providing an excellent helpline service, INPS makes it as easy as possible for practices to move to Vision and then helps them to get the most out of their system on an ongoing basis.

The company is part of the CEGEDIM Group, a leading supplier of healthcare technology and information solutions to over 115,000 clinicians across Europe.

E-mail: marketing@inps.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 207 501 7000 (Steve Marriott)
Web: www.inps.co.uk/mysystemofchoice

Choice, Best of Breed and Integration

BridgeForward’s interface engine, ClearSpan Server, is being used by hundreds of hospitals and GPs throughout the UK to solve critical integration challenges.

In Scotland, it serves as the nation-wide “spine” for SCI-Store, connecting 204 hospitals and 1,100 GPs.

At Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and University Hospital North Staffordshire, NHS Trust, ClearSpan Server is used to “amplify” the capabilities of iSoft’s iIE by connecting a multitude of applications to iIE and through to it iPM and iCM.

At BMI/General Healthcare, Nuffield Hospitals and Ramsey Health, ClearSpan Server serves as a system-wide integration hub.

ClearSpan Server: stable, enterprise-wide, integration at a manageable cost. Find out more:

E-mail: gina.stradis@bridgeforward.net
Tel: +44 (0) 1344 742833 (Gina Stradis)
Web: www.bridgeforward.net

Live demonstrations of clinical document sharing between systems supplied by six different companies will be one of the new attractions at Healthcare Computing this year.

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Simplicity is acting on reliable information

Philips Speech Recognition Systems (PSRS) helps physicians capture vital information and act upon it. Through easy access and information sharing, the company aims to contribute to the improvement of patient safety. PSRS’ products and services, most importantly the award-winning SpeechMagic platform, allow more than 200 leading providers of healthcare IT applications to enable verbal interaction with their solutions. A portfolio of 25 recognition languages and more than 150 ConTexts (vocabularies), coupled with over 8,000 installations of SpeechMagic worldwide, bear testimony to PSRS’ position as a market leader and expert. In 2007 the company was presented with Frost & Sullivan’s Global Excellence Award in healthcare speech recognition.

E-mail: info.speech@philips.com
Tel: +44 (0)7789 650 190 (Gary R. Williams)
Web: www.philips.com/speechrecognition

JAC

It often needs Hollywood to raise an issue’s profile. The latest public reminder of the dangers of medication errors were the near-death experiences of Dennis Quaid’s newborn twins who were given 1,000x the recommended dose Heparin because the nurse misread the label. Thankfully, the NHS has realised it can’t afford to wait and we have seen the uptake of ePrescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) systems accelerate.

Currently the States of Guernsey, Ayr and Arran and, most recently, South London and Maudsley are all working with JAC on major e-prescribing projects to make trust-wide EPMA available to frontline staff. These organisations, along with established users such as Heart of England, Doncaster, Great Ormond Street and Winchester, are also using EPMA to address issues such as PbR, performance and operational intelligence and continuity of care between acute and community settings.

Niall Poole from the Heart of England Trust will be presenting a case history on reaping the additional benefits of EPMA at HC2008 (Monday 1pm). We invite all those interested in modern pharmaceutical care to come to the presentation and join us on the JAC stand (B100).

E-mail: info@jac-pharmacy.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1268 416348 (Jonathan Mills)
Web: www.jac-pharmacy.co.uk

Securing and Accelerating the Nations Health

Visit Trustmarque Solutions at HC2008 stand B22, we will be hosting several software manufacturers over the course of the event, including Blue Coat Systems on day 2 (22nd April).

Healthcare data access is a key challenge. In the drive to comply with government regulations, integrate with N3 and control your WAN infrastructure costs, the idea of combining data acceleration with robust security may have seemed impossible. Until now. Only Blue Coat provides optimised WAN application delivery with security and control embedded and Blue Coat SGClient can extend that acceleration, security and control for remote workers.

Blue Coat has delivered successful solutions to NHS and other healthcare organisations like yours.

For more information and to claim your free Blue Coat briefing ‘Optimising the benefits from N3’ call 0845 2101 507 and ask to speak to a member of the NHS team, or pop along and see us at HC2008.

Email: Ben.jones@trustmarque.com
Tel: +44 (0) 845 2101 500 (Ben Jones)
Web: www.trustmarque.com