iSoft CEO resigns
The chief executive of the beleaguered UK health IT software company iSoft has resigned, less than a week after the company restated its accounts. iSoft said that Tim Whiston was resigning with immediate effect, five days after telling analysts he had not considered stepping down. Whiston said in a statement: "My primary concern is for […]
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iSoft restates accounts and axes 150 jobs
Healthcare software company iSoft has seen its shares tumble to a new low, on the back of an announcement this morning that it expects full-year revenue and profit to be significantly lower than expected due to a change in accounting policy. The resulting restatement of accounts will result in the elimination of £165m of historic […]
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iSoft sells off Swiss operations
Health IT software firm iSoft has sold its operations in Switzerland to Nexus, a local provider of healthcare IT solutions, for £2.25m Swiss Francs (£1m). The Manchester-based company says the move will enable it to "focus on other priorities in the short term". The most pressing of these priorities is delivering its late-running next generation […]
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Morecambe Bay goes live with PAS from CSC
Three sites in University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust have gone live with an iSoft patient administration system (PAS) that includes, for the first time, the A&E administration module from iSoft’s Lorenzo reference solution. CSC, the local service provider for the North West and West Midlands, installed the system in a ‘big bang’ implementation, […]
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Birmingham Women’s goes live with iPM
Birmingham Women’s Health Care NHS Trust has gone live with a new NHS Connecting for Health patient administration system provided by local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation. The specialist trust migrated from its old McKesson TPA PAS to the new iPM system, supplied by iSoft, over the weekend of 21-22 April and was up and […]
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North Staffs prepares for big bang
University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust is getting ready to go live with patient administration and clinical systems from iSoft some three years after it first signed the contract – and over two years late. April 30 marked the third anniversary of North Staffordshire NHS Trust signing a contract with iSoft for its iPM patient […]
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iSoft believes speculation on finances ‘unfounded’
iSoft, the health service software specialist, was yesterday forced to issue a stock market statement denying it is in financial difficulties on a day that its shares plunged by 47% at one point. Financial reports indicated that iSoft’s dramatic falls, occurred on the back of rumours that the NHS was seeking to end the firm’s […]
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Relations between Accenture and CfH chill
Relations between NHS Connecting for Health and Accenture one of its prime contractors appeared to have chilled considerably this week following the firm’s Tuesday announcement that it was making a further $450m provision against losses on its two NHS IT contracts due to growing delivery delays, partly caused by late delivery of software from its […]
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iSoft’s Lorenzo hits new highs in benchmarks
Manchester based health software firm iSoft has announced that its Lorenzo healthcare solution has hit new benchmark highs in handling simultaneous transactions and concurrent users. In the benchmark tests, carried out with HP, Microsoft and Intel, Lorenzo was said to have handled six million ‘real’ transactions an hour for 25,000 concurrent users. The benchmark was […]
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Choice? What choice?
Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from. Fiona Barr investigates.
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