East Kent saves £80,000 with SSO
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust has announced that it has saved £80,000 by implementing Single Sign On technology from Imprivata. The Imprivata OneSign software allows more than 7,000 users at the trust to connect to different applications via a single point of secure authentication. This solution was procured by tender and awarded to BMS, […]
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Scotland opens almost paperless hospital
A new £100m hospital which supports a virtually paperless environment has been opened by the NHS Glasgow and Clyde Health Board in Scotland. The Stobhill hospital, which is expected to treat more than 400,000 patients a year is one of the largest hospitals in Scotland, has implemented Orion Health’s electronic health record system. Scott Hendry, […]
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CfH to crack down on C&B ‘misuse’
NHS Connecting for Heath is hoping to crack down on the misuse of Choose and Book through new guidance that will be published in the next few weeks.
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Cohen: 25 trusts to get Lorenzo in 2010
The head of ISoft has said 25 NHS trusts will go live with the company’s ‘strategic’ electronic patient record, Lorenzo, next year. Speaking via a telephone link to E-Health Insider Live ’09, iSoft executive chairman and chief executive Gary Cohen said he was confident that Lorenzo Regional Care (Release 1.9) would go live across University […]
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SCR may have London roll out
The head of the London Programme for IT has admitted that the ‘one size fits all’ approach to deploying Cerner Millennium was a “mistake”. Speaking at E-Health Insider Live ’09, Kevin Jarrold said a “significantly different” approach was being taken at Kingston Hospital and St George’s Hospital NHS trusts, which are due to go live […]
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Insider View: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma reflects on a busy couple of weeks for news about NPfIT.
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Third of trusts miss wristband deadline
The National Patient Safety Agency has admitted that almost a third of NHS acute trusts in England and Wales have failed to meet the requirement to generate and print standardised patient wristbands. The NPSA has issued statistics to E-Health Insider that show that more than three months after the deadline passed in July, only 70% of NHS […]
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Connelly sets benchmark for November
The Department of Health’s chief information officer, Christine Connelly, has spelled out the criteria against which progress on the delivery of the Lorenzo and Millennium care records systems will be judged.
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New ASCC procurements promised for South
Christine Connelly says the NHS will run “a series of procurements utilising the ASCC framework in January 2010” to provide systems for trusts in the South of England.
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Bury goes live with first Lorenzo PAS
E-Health Insider has learned that NHS Bury has gone-live with Lorenzo Release 1.9, the first version of the software to include native patient administration functionality.
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