CRS leads to cancer care delays at Barts
The implementation of a new NHS Care Records System has led to patients requiring urgent cancer care not being seen within the government’s two week deadline.
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BT boss to take over at King’s College
Tim Smart the current chief executive of BT Global Services UK, the BT division responsible for over £3 billion of NHS IT contracts, is to take over as head of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. BT is the local service provider to London, responsible for delivering IT upgrades to NHS organisations across the capital […]
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Barts and The London deny CRS crash report
Barts and The London NHS Trust has denied reports in a tabloid newspaper alleging their new Cerner Millennium system crashed on its first day of operation. The project is the largest hospital go-live yet under the £12.4bn NHS IT programme. The Sun newspaper yesterday reported the new “computer scheme crashed on launch day…forcing doctors at […]
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Barts and The London switches on Millennium
Barts and the London NHS Trust has become the third NHS trust in London to go live with a Cerner Millennium Care Record System (CRS) supplied by BT under the £12.4bn NHS IT Programme. The trust switched on the new system over the weekend, going live in A&E, inpatients and outpatients, with functionality including case […]
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Barts put back Millennium go live
The date for the go-live of Cerner Millennium at Barts and the London NHS Trust (BLT), seen by many as the acid test of BT’s ability to deliver Cerner into a complex London teaching hospital , has been delayed. E-Health Insider has learned the go-live has been put back from the weekend of 8-9 March […]
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DH seeks tougher sanctions for security breaches
The government is seeking an increase in penalties for NHS staff that breach the Data Protection Act. Health minister, Ben Bradshaw, made the pledge at a debate on the health select committee report on electronic patient records in Westminster last Thursday. This followed evidence read by chair of the committee, Kevin Barron, citing examples of […]
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BT deploys Picis theatre system to six London trusts
BT has successfully completed its deployment of Picis theatre systems to six hospital trusts in London under the National Programme for IT. Announced last year, BT had signed an agreement with specialist developer, Picis, to deliver new operating theatre management systems to six hospital trusts, under agreement by Connecting for Health. Since then, BT has […]
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Winners announced in BT e-Health Insider Awards
Awards for some of the UK?s most outstanding health IT projects and people were announced at the gala BT e-Health Awards ceremony in London last night.
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Data Management: migration
For the IT manager in charge of getting data out of a legacy system and into a new PAS, the challenge can be daunting.
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Vote for your Healthcare ICT Champion
The search is on for your Healthcare ICT Champion of 2007. This special category of the BT e-Health Insider Awards 2007, sponsored by Microsoft, invites readers to vote for the individual they see as being most worthy of the title. Nominations were invited earlier this year and six people agreed to let their names go […]
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