Lorenzo ‘will stop at Release 2’
CSC may only deliver the first two releases of Lorenzo, the electronic patient record system being deployed across the North, Midlands and East of England, under the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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Birmingham Women’s next with Lorenzo
Birmingham Women’s NHS Foundation Trust looks set to be the second acute trust to implement Lorenzo Release 1.9 under the National Programme for IT in the NHS.
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NME at the gate
Sarah Bruce surveys the state of the National Programme for IT in the NHS in the North, Midlands and East of England, where the battle is to get Lorenzo live.
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BT Health boss to lead Oxford Radcliffe
Sir Jonathan Michael, managing director of BT Health, is to become the chief executive of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust.
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NHS Stockport implements Lorenzo R1
NHS Stockport has become the seventh site to implement iSoft’s Lorenzo electronic patient record system. The primary care trust has gone live with Lorenzo Regional Care Release One (LRC 1) clinical documentation model. This is being used by a community rehabilitation therapy team, following an implementation from local service provider, CSC, under The National Programme for […]
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Birmingham OwnHealth signs up 5,000
Birmingham OwnHealth, a telephone-based care management programme, has announced that it has signed up its 5,000th member. The pioneering programme has been running since 2006, offering one-to-one support and advice to people with long term conditions, and is run in a partnership between NHS Birmingham North and East, UK Pfizer Health Solutions and NHS Direct. […]
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Consultation on use of records
The Department of Health is to launch a series of pilots to examine how patients can opt out of having their records viewed for research purposes after its consultation found a wide gap between the views of researchers and the public. This week the DH published the results of its consultation on wider use of […]
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Expert view: Andy Bratt
LSPs paid a quarter of contract price
The local service providers of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been paid £1.1 billion, less than a quarter of the projected amounts for their projects.
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Going live
1,300 people, 80 exhibitors, four conference streams, the sheep key-rings, the chocolate fountain. EHI reports on E-Health Insider Live ’09.
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