CSC highlights benefits of ‘horizontal integration’
Local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has opened up the possibility of integrating healthcare systems across education and social services. CSC’s director of primary care Leigh Donoghue told a conference organised by primary care software TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) that CSC saw the potential to be gained from integrating health systems with local authority […]
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Granger says ‘consultation’ led to records delays
Richard Granger, the director general of IT for the NHS today (26 April) told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that he blames the two year delay in delivery the electronic patient record system at the heart of the NHS IT programme on ‘consultations’ taking longer than anticipated He said: “Some aspects have been delayed by […]
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Ipswich installs first national programme iCM
Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust has become the first trust to receive an iSoft iCM clinical system under the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) after local service provider Computer Sciences Corporation deployed the system with the iPM patient administration system (PAS) last weekend. As well as the Ipswich deployment, CSC also implemented an iPM PAS in […]
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PAC says NPfIT suppliers are ‘struggling to deliver’
A damning new report by the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) questions the basic business case behind and contracts awarded for England’s £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. The report focuses on the lack of progress on implementing electronic patient records which it says "suppliers are struggling to deliver" and calls for […]
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CSC deploys first community PAS in Eastern cluster
Cambridgeshire PCT has become the first trust to receive an iSoft Community iPM system from Computer Sciences Corporation in the Eastern region of the NHS, formerly overseen by Accenture. The system went live on 30 March in three sites, the Princess of Wales Hospital, Arthur Rank House and Brookfields Hospital, replacing their previous community system, […]
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Bradford goes live with iPM in just six months
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has successfully deployed the iSoft iPM system in just six months, after striking a deal with Computer Sciences Corporation and Connecting for Health last October. The trust becomes the first hospital in the North East to go live with a CSC provided iSoft iPM PAS system. CSC took over […]
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Personal health records high on HIMSS agenda
Personal health records, patient identification, interoperability and, of course, quality were high on the agenda at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), in the recovering US city of New Orleans, Neil Versel writes. An Accenture study released at the start of last week’s meeting suggested that two-thirds of Americans consider electronic health […]
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Bradford to be first ex-Accenture acute trust to go live
The first acute trust in the two NHS clusters that Computer Sciences Corporation officially took over from Accenture in January has told E-Health Insider it is confident it will go live with a new patient administration system by this April. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has told E-Health Insider that it is on track […]
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CSC delivers seven new systems in North East and East
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has announced that it deployed seven new IT systems to GP practices and healthcare community settings, in the first two weeks of taking over responsibility as local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North East and East of England. Rotherham Primary Care Trust in South Yorkshire has gone […]
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System C issues profit warning as NPfIT slows
System C Healthcare has issued a profit warning citing a siginificant slowdown in deployments under the NHS IT programme as a result of a three month "hiatus" during the handover from Accenture to CSC. A spokesperson for System C told EHI: "The hand-over from Accenture to CSC caused a significant hiatus in activity for us during that period. […]
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