Fujitsu may lose southern NHS PACS deal
Fujitsu may not have its contract renewed to provide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) services to NHS trusts in the south of England. The development comes two weeks after Fujitsu had its £1.1bn contract as local service provider (LSP) for the region terminated on 28 May, following its withdrawal from contract re-negotiations. Fujitsu had […]
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No easy answers after Fujitsu
The NHS IT programme faces further delays and difficult decisions on what it does next after firing Fujitsu. Jon Hoeksma reports.
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CSC plans to integrate SystmOne into Lorenzo
Local service provider CSC is planning to integrate TPP’s SystmOne with the strategic software Lorenzo,currently being developed by iSoft. The LSP for the North, Midlands and East region of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has already released details of its plans to deploy Lorenzo in four phases between 2008 and 2012, creating a […]
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Berlin health conference will focus on IT
Next week sees hundreds of senior health officials from across Europe congregate in Berlin, Germany, for the 4th Annual World Health Care Congress Europe. As a supporting publication, E-Health Europe will be reporting live from the event, bringing you all the latest developments in European e-health. As a taster of what’s expected to be announced […]
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2007 in review
As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the news in 2007.
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Main NPfIT contractors paid £1.2bn last year
Despite continued delays in many areas of the National Programme for IT,Connecting for Health paid its main contractors over £1.5bn in the past financial year.
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SAP to release integrated solution in December
Germany’s largest software company SAP and its partner Accenture will release an integrated care solution, called the Collaborative Health Network, in December. The new solution will then be tested in pilot projects in several European countries, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium. With the CHN solution, SAP/Accenture will compete with a number of […]
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SAP to start integrated care pilots later this year
Bernard Thibaut, head of the health-related software business at SAP Germany, tells Philipp Grätzel about the firm’s e-health future.
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Lorenzo plan unlikely before year end
Alternative delivery plans – codenamed Penfield – developed by Computer Sciences Corporation for delivery of the next generation Lorenzo clinical software for three-fifths of the English NHS are unlikely to be completed before the end of the year. One of the NHS chief information officers taking a lead on the Lorenzo Penfield plan has told […]
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Chairman reveals his iSoft low point
iSoft chairman, John Weston, has revealed he reached the lowest point in his tenure at the healthcare software company when apparent accounting irregularities came to light. In an interview with the Financial Times, Weston recalls his personal nadir in the iSoft saga. In July 2006 he was just six weeks into the job when newly-appointed […]
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