CfH boss says NHS IT programme an ‘expedition’
The NHS IT programme is not a “programme of paint by numbers” but more of an “expedition” according to Gordon Hextall.
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Nicholson says C+B use not based on payments
NHS chief executive David Nicholson last night said that use of Choose and Book remains disappointingly low but has become a fact of life in the NHS. Answering MPs’ questions about Choose and Book use at the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee hearing on the NHS IT programme, Nicholson said: “Utilisation of the system […]
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BT in talks to take over Cerner trusts in south
BT has confirmed it is in talks to take over responsibility for trusts in the south with Cerner Millennium
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Winchester has four-day Millennium failure
Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, has in the past week suffered a four day problem with its Cerner Millennium Care Records System (CRS) that left it unavailable to some users for up to four days. The problems began on Thursday, 5 June, and though largely resolved by Sunday were not fully fixed until Monday, […]
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Sectra to provide radiology network to Sweden’s Region Skåne
Sectra has been awarded a contract to deliver an IT infrastructure for regional radiology information exchange and cooperation among hospitals to the Swedish county council Region Skåne. The new IT infrastructure will support automatic sharing and distribution of radiology information to all departments involved in the radiology workflow. The county council of Region Skåne covers […]
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ICW establishes Silicon Valley eHealth Lab
German e-health firm InterComponentWare (ICW) has announced the formation of ICW Labs, a Silicon Valley based R&D organisation focused on the development and use of ICW’s eHealth technology. Called ICW Labs the new organisation will be headed by Thomas Odenwald, described by ICW as a “veteran SAP technology leader and visionary”. Odenwald brings extensive experience […]
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Connecting for Health to take over NHS Choices
NHS Connecting for Health is to take over responsibility for the NHS Choices portal, the government’s national patient portal for delivering patient choice and health information services. Following the transfer, NHS Choices will become the point of access for HealthSpace, the online organiser used to give people access to their NHS Summary Care Record. It […]
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Kaiser signs up for Microsoft’s HealthVault
Kaiser Permanente, the largest US nonprofit health maintenance organisation, has announced it will participate in Microsoft’s personal health record initiative linking Kaiser’s existing My Health Manager system to the HealthVault platform. The partnership, announced Monday, will begin with a pilot project open to Kaiser’s 156,000 employees, which will run until November. Assuming the pilot is […]
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Royal Berkshire ‘may walk’ from NHS IT programme
The chairman of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has said the trust “may walk” from the NHS IT Programme, to ensure it gets the IT systems required. Speaking last Thursday, the day after Fujitsu had its £1.1 billion NHS IT contract for the South terminated, Colin MacLean the chairman of Royal Berks said it […]
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Fujitsu’s £896m NHS IT contract to be terminated
NHS Connecting for Health is to terminate the £896m contract with Fujitsu to upgrade NHS IT systems across the South of England.
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