BT to axe 10,000 jobs
BT has announced that it will cut 10,000 jobs across the whole company, including its BT Global Services division, which is responsible for three key English NHS IT contracts. The job cuts, amounting to 6% of the total workforce, will be spread across the BT Group. Six thousand will be “agency staff, sub-contractors and offshore […]
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The secrets of e-health success
Jon Hoeksma reports on a symposium given by Dr Karl Stroetman at the World of Health IT conference.
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Lorenzo officially launched
Lorenzo, the future strategic care records software promised to three-fifths of the English NHS has officially launched internationally in Sydney, Australia.
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Sunquest completes purchase of Anglia Healthcare
Sunquest Information Systems, the US specialist in laboratory and diagnostic information systems, has completed the acquisition of Anglia Healthcare Systems. Anglia, which had been privately-held, is a UK company providing laboratory connectivity, orders, reporting and messaging products. As of Monday the firm became a subsidiary of Sunquest Information Systems, Inc. The completion of the deal […]
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Harry Cayton to chair new patient data body
Harry Cayton OBE Harry Cayton OBE is to chair the new National Information Governance Board for Health and Social Care (NIGB), which becomes a statutory body later this month. Cayton was formerly the Chair of the Care Record Development Board (CRDB) – the predecessor of the NIGB – and chaired a ministerial task force on […]
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Royal Free says £7.2m deficit due to Cerner
The Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has reported a £7.2 m deficit due mainly to problems with the Cerner Millennium Care Records System.
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European Commission allies with HIMSS
The European Commission has announced it will merge its annual high level ministerial e-health conference with an industry event run by America’s Healthcare Information and Management Society (HIMSS). The decision would appear to place HIMSS in pole position to dominate future European e-health exhibitions and strengthen its ambitions to grow into the leading professional body […]
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CSW Health goes into administration
Health IT firm CSW Group Ltd, the owners of CSW Health, the Oxford-based specialist in XML-based software applications, has been placed into administration. The development leaves the future support of a system used by ten London primary care trusts to monitor child vaccinations unclear. It also appears to throw a spanner into plans to develop […]
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Connelly promises clarity by year end
Christine Connelly, the new chief information officer for health, has denied reports that the National Programme for IT in the NHS is grinding to a halt and promised progress by the end of the year.
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Call for common e-health standards
A new study advocates the development of a common strategy and roadmap for e-health standards development, to support interoperability and the adoption of electronic patient records. Carried out by German research firm Empirica on behalf of the European Commission, the study provides an overview of e-health standards development and uptake. Attention is given to the […]
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