HC2006 showcases health IT developments
Contract wins, new solutions, new versions of existing solutions and survey results will be announced by exhibitors at the Healthcare Computing 2006 show next week. Some of the highlights promised for the annual Harrogate healthcare IT extravaganza include: GP solutions supplier, In Practice Systems is using HC2006 to announce the findings of an in-depth survey […]
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iSoft to preview Lorenzo Primary Care at HC2006
iSoft has announced that it will be giving a preview of its new primary care product Lorenzo at this year’s HC2006 health informatics conference at Harrogate, Yorkshire, from March 20-22. The preview will be the first public outing for the new primary care offering, expected to be the "core" primary care solution for GPs in […]
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Northumbria goes outside NPfIT for PAS
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust has gone out to tender for a patient administration system as a result of delays in the availability of a suitable system that meets the trust’s requirements under the NHS national programme for IT. The acute hospital trust this week placed a procurement notice in the Official Journal of the European […]
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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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‘Plymouth’ offered as an interim solution
Connecting for Health has shelved plans to provide NHS acute trusts across three regions in England with an integrated, strategic next-generation clinical system for another two or three years. E-Health Insider has learned that since late December in the North East, Eastern and North West and West Midlands regions, NHS Connecting for Health has stopped […]
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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 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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Norfolk and Norwich shelves iSoft PAS
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Trust have shelved the implementation of a new Patient Administration System from iSoft, provided by Accenture under the NHS National Programme for IT. The trust suspended implementation efforts due to lack of confidence in the ability of iSoft and local service provider (LSP) Accenture to deliver the system "within […]
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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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