Siemens wins Barts network contract
Barts and The London NHS Trust has awarded a four-year, multi million-pound contract to Siemens Enterprise Communications to implement a fixed and wireless LAN and security infrastructure. The work will provide the trust, including the new hospitals, with a single network able to handle data, voice and video streaming from multiple wireless devices and PCs […]
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Wandsworth abandons Cerner plans
NHS Wandsworth has abandoned plans to install Cerner Millennium at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton, saying the system is not suited to modern community-based services. The primary care trust said the change to its IT plans was due to repeated delays and concerns about security as well as the unsuitability of Millennium for federated Polyclinic models […]
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Cerner UK announces redundancies
Cerner has announced a round of redundancies of UK staff, based on the sharply reduced number of implementations it now expects to deliver.
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Bellamy learns from Royal Free
Martin Bellamy has said that lessons learned at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust will inform future system deployments under the National Programme for IT in the NHS. The head of NHS Connecting for Health and director of programme and systems delivery described the acute sector as the “Achilles heel of the national programme.” However, […]
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Cerner commits to acting locally
Cerner has started working with NHS trusts on a new, local implementation model that is designed to prevent the repitition of past mistakes, and focus on clinical benefits. The company says that through its NHS contract it still has the potential to transform the entire healthcare economy, but says that while holding on to the […]
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Cerner embraces Wikinomics
US healthcare IT giant Cerner is getting set to embrace user innovation. Jeff Townsend, the man behind the initiative, spoke to Jon Hoeksma.
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Royal Free chief executive resigns
Andrew Way, the chief executive at the Royal Free Hampstead Hospital, which was plunged into financial crisis following installation of a new IT system last year, has resigned. The problems were so serious at Royal Free that, in October, all Cerner Millennium deployments in the capital by local service provider BT and NHS London under the National Programme for […]
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Government ‘remains confident’ in NPfIT
The Department of Health has said that it “remains confident in the potential of both Cerner’s Millennium and iSoft’s Lorenzo to work effectively” once development and testing are completed.
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Next London Cerner go-live delayed until Autumn
The next deployment of Cerner Millennium in London will not occur until the autumn; more than a year after the last go-live in the capital plunged the Royal Free Hampstead Hospital NHS Trust into crisis.
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