Blackpool gets ‘Darzi’ style PACS
NHS Blackpool has implemented a new Agfa PACS system that enable staff working at the town’s state of the art new polyclinic to access and share diagnostic image records with staff at the local hospital trust. Implemented as an extension of Blackpool, Flyde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s existing Agfa Impax PACS, the new […]
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Kingston hits go-live date with Cerner
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has confirmed that it has gone live with its Cerner Millennium Care Records Service programme.
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Hospital IT ‘does not cut costs’
Computerising hospitals delivers a small improvement in quality but does not cut costs, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine. Indeed, the detailed correlation of data from a hospital computerisation survey, cost reports and quality scores, shows that the hospitals that have computerised fastest in the past decade have also seen […]
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Bury formally accepts Lorenzo R1.9
NHS Bury has accepted iSoft’s electronic patient record system, three weeks after becoming the first NHS organisation to go-live with Lorenzo Regional Care Release 1.9.
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Procurements for South complete by April
The Department of Health’s chief information officer, Christine Connelly, has said she wants procurements for systems in the South to begin in January, and be completed by the beginning of April 2010.
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Bury sets criteria for Lorenzo success
NHS Bury will accept or reject its newly implemented Lorenzo electronic patient record system on its own criteria, according to documents released by the trust. Director general of informatics Christine Connelly has set five criteria for deciding whether the NHS’ strategic electronic patient record systems have made “significant progress” by the end of November. A […]
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Kingston to go-live on 30 November
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust plans to go live with Cerner Millennium on 30 November, in what has become a critical milestone for the £12.7 billion NHS IT programme.
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LSPs paid a quarter of contract price
The local service providers of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been paid £1.1 billion, less than a quarter of the projected amounts for their projects.
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London SCR roll out announced
The Department of Health has announced that the Summary Care Record is to be rolled out across London from this week.
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