Note perfect
MCP Systems and Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust implemented a 3M case note tracking system – and won an EHI Award for it. Stephen Pritchard reports.
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London IT Programme slashed
NHS trusts in London have been told they will get a dramatically scaled back programme of IT modernisation following the new contract signed with BT last week.
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CSC misses March Morecambe Bay deadline
CSC’s future in the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme is in doubt after it failed to hit a critical end of March deadline to install Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9 at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.
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It’s party time
With the general election fast approaching, Sarah Bruce asked policy makers, analysts and trusts what they would put in their health IT manifesto.
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St George’s gets Cerner for Easter
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust has gone live with Cerner Millennium, the strategic electronic patient record system provided by London’s local service provider, BT.
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Predict and survive
Predictive risk modelling is coming into its own as the NHS looks to improve productivity and efficiency. Daloni Carlisle reports.
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Mid Cheshire is 50th Medway site
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has gone live with a maternity information system from System C Healthcare, giving the company the 50th deployment of its Medway product. More than 250 midwives, doctors and support staff are using the system to handle the maternity services provided by the trust’s community facilities and acute hospitals in […]
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Morecambe Bay goes soft on Lorenzo
Morecambe Bay University Hospitals NHS Trust now plans to have a soft launch of Lorenzo Release 1.9 on Easter Bank Holiday weekend.
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West country picks McKesson child system
A group of NHS trusts and primary care trusts in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire have awarded a new contract to McKesson to continue to provide its CarePlus Child Health software for child health services.
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Bacon says ‘prove value of NPfIT deals’
A leading member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee has written to NHS chief information officer Christine Connelly, questioning how negotiations to ‘descope’ the two remaining local service provider contracts will deliver value for money.
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