Millennium delays cost Kingston £500,000
Delays to the delivery of a Cerner Millennium electronic record system at Kingston Hospital NHS Trust have cost it more than £500,000 so far. The trust says the earliest it may now go live is April 2009, although it currently has no planned go-live date. This has been “postponed indefinitely” until “issues in live trusts […]
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Insider view: Jon Hoeksma
E-Health Insider editor Jon Hoeksma on the Operating Framework and the future of the National Programme.
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Royal Free says Cerner creates duplicate x-ray risk
Patients at the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust are potentially at risk of having duplicate x-rays ordered and receiving double exposure, following the introduction of a new Cerner electronic record system.
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Barts takes a week to recover from Mytob virus
Barts and the London NHS Trust is still working to recover from the Mytob worm virus a week after it hit the hospital trust’s computer network. The Mytob computer virus first infected the Barts and The London computer systems on Tuesday 18 November. A trust spokesperson yesterday told E-Health Insider: “We expect all PCs will be […]
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Computer virus takes down Barts and the London
A computer virus has infected Barts and The London NHS Trust, shutting down the computer system that runs its three hospitals for more than 24-hours. The network went down on Monday lunchtime, taking out internet and email and other applications. A trust spokesperson told E-Health Insider: "The virus attacked yesterday afternoon, and the IT department put in place […]
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DH invests £11m in dental IT training
The DH has announced it will give an extra £11m to ten of the 11 dental teaching hospitals in England, to help fund IT systems that will support the training of dental students.
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GP seeks greater urgency on interoperability
A GP who has pioneered record sharing between GP and community teams wants to see local service providers giving interoperability a higher priority. Dr Kambiz Boomla’s practice was the first surgery in London to trial EMIS Web, the common clinical record system from GP IT supplier EMIS. But he says plans to interoperate with hospital […]
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CSC selects InterSystems for trust integration
Computer Sciences Corporation is to use InterSystems Ensemble for the integration of all new applications it provides to existing trust systems. CSC, the local service provider for the North East and Midlands regions in England’s NHS National Programme for IT, has selected Ensemble as the standard trust integration engine (TIE). The Ensemble TIE will include pre-built […]
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CRS problems cost Barts and the London £3m
Barts and the London NHS Trust projects a £3m shortfall in income this year due to serious data, reporting and technical problems with its new Cerner Millennium Care Records System. The new CRS system, installed by BT in April, has left the London trust unable to accurately report on inpatient and activity. As a result […]
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Doctors repeat call for inquiry into CFH
Doctors’ representatives have called for an independent inquiry into Connecting for Health and demanded that trusts be allowed to seek solutions directly from IT providers. Dr David Wrede, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, told the BMA’s annual meeting that it was “Groundhog Day” for the representatives. He said the meeting […]
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