EHI interview: Peter Neupert
Microsoft’s vice president for health strategy, recently spoke to the US Senate’s HELP committee. Last week, he spoke to EHI editor Jon Hoeksma.
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Worthing decides to switch off Cerner
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust has agreed plans to switch off its Cener Millennium electronic records software and move back to its old Sema-Helix software. As first reported by E-Health Insider on 26 January, the trust has been examining whether to move from its current Cerner Millennium system back to its old Sema-Helix patient […]
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Royal Free boss says CRS problems cost £10m
The boss of the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has blamed the new NHS electronic medical records system – the flagship project of the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme – for causing "heartache and hard work". Andrew Way, chief executive at the Royal Free, said technical problems had cost the trust £10m, leaving it unable […]
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Wiltshire Health signs deal with System C
System C has signed a five-year contract with a consortium of GPs in Wiltshire providing services in the community that were traditionally delivered in the acute sector. The new consortium is called Wilcare Health Ltd, and is one of the new forms of primary care organisation being promoted by the government. Wilcare is in partnership with […]
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Hospital uses Twitter for live surgery updates
Micro-blogging service Twitter has been used by US surgeons to provide real-time updates on a live robot-assisted surgical procedure.
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Choose and Book contract extended
The Department of Health has signed a two year extension with Atos Healthcare for the national Choose and Book contract. The deal extends the initial £64.5m five year national contract signed with Schlumberger-Sema (since taken over by Atos Origin) in 2003, and later expanded. DH figures show that £103m had been spent on the contract by […]
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Carestream Health hits 2000 CR installs
Carestream Health has announced it has reached a milestone in CR installations, having installed its two thousandth high resolution CR system at the Rechts der Isar Clinic in Munich, Germany. The Munich University Rechts der Isar Clinic, with its specialised team of physicians dedicated to mammography, installed a new multi-plate Kodak Directview CR 975 System […]
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iSoft wins e-prescribing deal in Navarre
ISoft has won a one-year contract with the Spanish region of Navarre to provide the first stages of an e-prescribing system.
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Cerner gets green light in London
NHS London and the NHS London Programme for IT have given the green light to further Cerner deployments in the capital.
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March before Royal Free CRS fixes assessed
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust says that it will be March before it is able to assess whether sufficient improvements have been made to the BT-supplied Cerner Care Records System. Problems caused by the CRS system were last year reported to have cost the trust £7.2m, disrupted the delivery of care and led to delays […]
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