NHS Choices £80m contract award imminent
The Department of Health is this week expected to announce the winner of the three-year, £80m contract to run NHS Choices, the patient portal for health service. Gordon Hextall, acting head of NHS Connecting for Health, said at a news conference last Thursday, 10 July, that an announcement of the NHS Choices contract was “due […]
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Intel gets approval for telecare device
Intel has received market clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for a new personal telehealth system.
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NHS Informatics Review says trusts need ‘interim’ systems
NHS trusts are to get support, and in some cases may get national funding, to select and install “interim” systems as a result of the NHS Informatics Review.
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CSC markets Alert to the NHS
Computer Sciences Corporation has stepped up its marketing of a Portuguese electronic patient record (EPR) system called Alert to NHS trusts in the North Midlands and East of England. CSC is understood to have invested technical resources in evaluating and testing the Alert EPR over the past six months. The move comes despite ongoing delays […]
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Europe aims for borderless electronic health records
The European Commission has launched two major e-health initiatives aimed at achieving interoperable e-health systems across Europe
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CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts
The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen within the government’s two week deadline.
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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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