PACS roll-out stalls in NW and West Midlands
The roll-out programme for PACS in the North West and West Midlands of England by CSC looks in danger of stalling. Despite assurances from NHS Connecting for Health (CfH), as recently as two weeks ago, that initial implementations will begin before the end of December 2005, E-Health Insider has confirmed that none of the four […]
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Liverpool trust rejects delayed PACS
A leading NHS trust in the North West and West Midlands cluster has been forced to scrap its implementation of a Connecting for Health (CfH) Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS), due to delays and technical problems with the system. Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust told E-Health Insider that it had taken […]
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PCT forced to revert to paper systems
A primary care trust has been forced to abandon its planned move to a Connecting for Health community patient administration system after problems with the migration left staff working from paper records for ten days. An e-mail seen by EHI Primary Care reveals that Burntwood, Lichfield and Tamworth PCT in Staffordshire faced insurmountable problems migrating from […]
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US government awards EHR pilot contracts
The US Department of Health & Human Services has awarded contracts totalling $18.6m (£10.7m) to consortia led by Accenture, CSC, IBM and Northrop Grumman to develop four pilot health information infrastructures across twelve locations in ten states, and then release the designs into the public domain. The four groups, the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) consortia, will […]
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Granger sets November deadline for BT in London
BT has been warned by NHS IT boss Richard Granger that they must hit a 28 November deadline to switch on a Patient Administration System at Queen Mary and Sidcup NHS Trust or risk incurring penalties. The company confirmed that it is up to a year behind schedule on its £996m computer network-services contract with […]
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CfH approaches 2,000th deployment
Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of the beginning of September. The figure represents an increase of over 800 deployments since the beginning of August, reaching a grand total of 1,864. However, a closer reading of the figures reveals that almost all […]
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GP system choice being blocked and mocked
A Hertfordshire IT manager reported that he was laughed at when he told his local service provider (LSP) that he wanted to use an EMIS computer system rather than the two systems offered routinely in his area. The position apparently flies in the face of a pledge in March from John Hutton, then health minister, […]
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Accenture signs with Agfa for PACS
Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS National Programme for IT in the North East and East of England, has signed a sub-contract with Agfa to provide Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) to the NHS across the two regions. Connecting for Health has awarded Accenture a contract worth £235 million over nine years to June 2013, […]
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North Cumbria PCTs get community PAS
Three primary care trusts in North Cumbria have begun implementation of new community PAS systems that connect with the NHS data spine, as part of the NHS National Programme for IT. District nurses and community hospital staff across three PCTs, Carlisle and District, Eden Valley and West Cumbria, are now beginning to use the system installed by […]
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Red rose rising
EHI Primary Care talks to Lancashire Care NHS Trust, the first mental health trust in England to receive a PAS system from Connecting for Health.
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