Lorenzo CRS solution delayed until late 2007
The delivery of the strategic Care Record Service solution in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been confirmed as running badly late and subject to "significant delays" until at least late 2007. As a result, strategic health authorities in the area are now developing "delay mitigation plans" based on interim use of existing systems […]
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New GP choice proposals outlined
NHS Connecting for Health has outlined new proposals for delivering GP system choice based on a multi-step accreditation process. If adopted, the approach could potentially enable practices to buy systems either directly from suppliers or from their local service providers and still have them funded by the national programme. The proposals now being consulted on […]
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’
A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS trusts working on paper for a week after a disaster was ‘not acceptable’. Sunil Patel, development director of Accenture, LSP for the North east and Eastern regions of England, was referring to the disaster at […]
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iSoft warns of ‘significant’ NPfIT delays
British healthcare software developer iSOFT has warned that delays in delivering software to the UK National Health Service would slash its previous revenue and profit forecasts. In a trading statement this morning the company said that total full-year revenue generated from the programme is expected to be around £30m, about £55m pounds below previous expectations, […]
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CSC Alliance told to make switch on PACS/RIS
New suppliers look highly likely to be brought in an effort to sort out the mired Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) programme in the North West and West Midlands region of the NHS, E-Health Insider has learned. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the […]
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CSC implements new theatre system at Royal Liverpool
Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust has become the latest trust to go live with a new theatre system, provided by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) as part of the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT). CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands region of the £6.2 billion NPfIT […]
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Patient data errors created by iSoft’s iPM system
A flaw has been identified in the iSoft iPM patient administration system being provided as the standard solution to NHS trusts in the North West and West Midlands that can corrupt patient data creating suspected clinical risks to patients. Under certain circumstances the iPM patient administration system has been found to both incorrectly display patient […]
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InterSystems chosen for Dutch e-health programme
InterSystems Corporation has been selected by CSC Computer Sciences BV to provide its Ensemble integration platform for a national healthcare integration project in the Netherlands. The new initiative, called the National Switching Point, will provide the foundation for the national rollout of an electronic patient record (EPR) that is being developed by the Dutch National […]
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NPfIT support procurement enters final stretch
NHS Connecting for Health has announced that the three remaining bidders for the First Line Service Support (FLSS) contract are Capita, CSC Computer Sciences and Fujitsu. The FLSS project is intended to replace the National Service Desk, a support line that services the National Programme for IT implementation across all five clusters in England. Five […]
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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS
Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient administration system (PAS) connected to the national NHS spine. The implementation marks a genuine milestone for Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT); BT, NPfIT’s prime contractor for London; and […]
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