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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Heart of England connects with Quicksilva
Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust has signed a deal with Quicksilva to enable it to get direct access to the NHS data Spine and its services. Quicksilva will provide the trust with its Compliance-in-a-Box consultancy service, Spine Gateway managed service and Spine-in-a-Box test harness. These will enable it to complete the NHS Connecting for […]
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HL7 UK on the road
HL7 UK is to hold a series of one day roadshows, featuring interoperability case studies and tutorials. The Case Studies in Integration roadshows in London, Birmingham and Leeds will discuss work that is happening now and the support that is available to trusts wanting to undertake integration projects. The full day events will give delegates […]
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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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Child health strategy to share information
The government plans to promote information sharing across settings to deliver improvements in the health of children and young people, according to a strategy published this week. Healthy lives, brighter futures: the strategy for children and young people’s health says feedback from frontline staff suggests they sometimes feel constrained as to when they can share […]
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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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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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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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NHSmail on track for London
NHS Connecting for Health has said the migration of NHSmail to the Microsoft Exchange 2007 platform is going well as it prepares to move 50,000 NHS London accounts this weekend. Will Moss, programme head of NHSmail, told E-Health Insider that four out of the migration’s 11 phases had been completed and that 122,565 live accounts […]
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Kent GP-led centres pick Adastra
Two GP-led health centres in Kent have chosen software from out-of-hours provider Adastra as their patient management system. The centres in Medway and Swale, run by London-based Dulwich Medical Centre, will use the software to support their seven day a week service, offering scheduled and unscheduled appointments to both registered and unregistered patients. Dulwich Medical […]
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