GE wins £110m PACS contract for South of England
GE Healthcare has signed with Fujitsu Services Ltd to provide Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) across the whole of the Southern region of the English National Health Service under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT). The agreement will see GE healthcare implement PACS technology that will enable the conversion of hospitals and clinics to […]
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Information map deal secured for southern cluster
Medic-to-Medic, manufacturers of the Map of Medicine, have announced a deal with Fujitsu, the LSP for the Southern cluster, to make the software available to all clinicians within the area. The deal is part of a series of negotiations with LSPs by the company to make the software available nationally under NPfIT. The software, developed […]
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Accenture names Phoenix as primary care supplier
Accenture has announced that it has signed agreements with Microsoft, Liquidlogic and The Phoenix Partnership to provide technology solutions for the North-east and Eastern regions of English NHS, under the National Programme for IT. Accenture is the local service provider for the North-east and Eastern regions, two of the five English NHS regions covered by […]
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Sun awarded ‘tactical’ NHS desktop contract
The National Programme for IT (NPfIT) has concluded an evaluation project with Sun Microsystems over the potential use of Sun’s open-source Java Desktop System within the NHS as an alternative to Microsoft. E-Health Insider can exclusively reveal that NPfIT “has concluded that the Java Desktop System, which runs on the Linux operating system, represents a […]
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Agfa set to replace GE on PACS in North East and Eastern
Three months after health minister John Hutton announced the award of Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) contracts for the five National Programme for IT (NPfIT) clusters, it now seems certain that contracts for at least two clusters will now be awarded to Agfa rather than GE Medical Systems as originally thought. An NPfIT spokesperson […]
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MP tables questions on iSoft accounting
iSoft, a leading supplier of clinical software under the NHS’ National Programme for IT, has come under parliamentary scrutiny over its accounting and suspension of a director, who has just been re-elected to the board while suspended. Paul Farrelly, Labour MP for Newcastle-under-Lyme has tabled questions to the Secretary of State for Health on whether […]
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Private sector to help IT innovation in new scheme
An initiative launched by the DH yesterday aims to encourage the sharing of innovative ideas between individual NHS organisations in England, with the support of the private sector. Information technology will be one of the main areas of innovation to be covered. NHS Live is a year long programme intended to improve the quality of patients’ experience by developing tailor-made personal […]
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Accenture signs with iSOFT for Lorenzo
Six months after being awarded the contracts to act as Local Service Provider for the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in the Eastern and North East regions of England, Accenture has finalised its agreement with iSOFT to act as it provider of core clinical and administration applications. Accenture will use iSOFT’s Lorenzo enterprise-wide clinical and […]
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NPfIT helps NHS management consultant bill rise 185%
The government’s rapidly growing bill for management consultancy hit £1 billion last year, double the amount spent the previous year. Among the increases was a 185% increase in NHS expenditure on management consultants. Figures published by the Management Consultancies Association revealed that central government doubled its spending on management consultancy last year to £1 billion, making it […]
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EMIS predicts signing deals with three LSPs
Primary care systems supplier EMIS has said that is confident that EMIS products and services will be available “working via LSPs alongside the NPfIT” in at least three of the five clusters of the national programme. The company has issued no details of the nature of the agreements it expects to reach with the three […]
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