Three NHS trusts in East Anglia have invested in blood tracking technology from Olympus.

Ascribe Plc, the AIM-listed healthcare IT services company, has today confirmed it is in preliminary talks with its executive directors regarding a possible management buyout.

St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust is using technology from B2net to streamline its data storage and improve back up.

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Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust was forced to develop workarounds for isolating MRSA patients after Cerner's Millennium care records system was unable to cope with its superbug monitoring system for 18 months.

Public bodies, including health authorities, could be able to access information about all personal calls and internet use under proposals from the Home Office.

Walsall Manor Hospital has begun the first stage of an in-house electronic discharge summary project, designed to increase communication between the hospital and local GP practices.

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation has announced that a new version of SNOMED CT is now available.

Informing Healthcare has published its infrastructure strategy for NHS Wales. The first edition covers networking, user access devices, servers and storage, messaging and collaboration, directory and voice services.

iSoft has announced that it has secured new business and renewal of contracts worth €8.4m in the UK and central Europe over the past month.

A senior hospital manager, who lost a laptop containing the unencrypted records of more than 20,000 patients while he was on holiday, has been dismissed from his position.

Health researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a website that encourages students to keep track of their drinking.