
Ireland details €875m EHR plans
Ireland is planning to spend up to €875 (£700m) on building an electronic health record over the next five to nine years.
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Ireland is planning to spend up to €875 (£700m) on building an electronic health record over the next five to nine years.
Nuffield Health, the not-for-profit that runs hospitals, gyms and corporate health schemes across the UK, is to implement an electronic health record using InterSystems’ TrakCare.
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North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has delayed phase two of its TrakCare electronic patient record programme as it deals with data recording and reporting issues and staff get used to the new computer system.
Six of the ‘iSoft7’ NHS trusts that retained their iSoft systems rather than enter the National Programme for IT have extended their contracts with CSC to cover the procurement and implementation of new electronic patient records.
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