Milton Keynes MP asks when Millennium will be fixed
Reports of missing patient records resulting from the new Cerner Millennium system at Milton Keynes NHS Trust have led local Member of Parliament, Mark Lancaster, to write to the Health Secretary to ask when the Care Records System at the trust will be "fit for purpose". The system has been provided by local service provider […]
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PAC report reveals postcode lottery on GP systems
Connecting for Health has treated contracts for GP systems differently in its five clusters with local service providers contracted to supply GP systems to all practices in three clusters while there is no such agreement in the other two clusters. The different contractual arrangements around the country are revealed in print for the first time […]
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Fujitsu signs pathology contracts with three trusts
Three NHS trusts in the South of England have signed contracts totalling £5.5m with Fujitsu Services to provide them with Cerner’s PathNet pathology suite integrated with Cerner Millennium. The contracts will run until 2013. The three trusts are Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust, East Kent Hospitals and Medway NHS Trust, Kent. The PathNet system is […]
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Atos Origin’s £257m DH diagnostics contract suspended
A £257m contract for diagnostic services in North-west and South-west England awarded to Atos Origin last December has been suspended after the Department of Health (DH) ordered an independent review following concerns about quality and administrative procedures. Atos Origin had been working with eight PCTs in the North-west since December but some ultrasound and MRI scan […]
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Extra suppliers catalogue tender welcomed by industry
Reaction to last week’s publication of the tender for a catalogue of additional healthcare IT suppliers was broadly positive, generating questions about how soon the extra solutions and services would be available not whether the new approach was a good idea. Predictably, the supplier community welcomed the opportunity opened up by the tender. Nick Kalisperas […]
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79 Milton Keynes staff say Millennium “not fit for purpose”
Seventy-nine clinicians and admin staff at Milton Keynes General Hospital have written an open letter to the management stating that the new Cerner Millennium system installed by Fujitsu in February is "not fit purpose". In their open letter, the staff describe the software as "awkward and clunky" and state: "In our opinion the system should […]
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Data from half a million patients to aid research
UK Biobank, a medical research initiative charity, is to start using patient data to provide reliable assessment of different causes of diseases, from 15 April. Andy Harris, a systems architect for the charity told an Oracle press briefing at the World Health Care Congress in Barcelona that the charity would have access to patient lists […]
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Maternity delivery delays
Maternity systems form a core part of Local Service Providers’ contracts under the NHS IT programme, but delivery has been painfully slow resulting in some trusts opting for alternative systems, Joe Fernandez investigates.
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Winchester says Millennium becoming ‘more robust’
The delays in implementation of the Cerner Millenium patient administration system have helped to make the system ‘fit for purpose and more robust’, according to the IT lead at Winchester and Eastleigh NHS Trust. The Mid Hampshire Deployment Family, consisting of three trusts: Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, part of Hampshire Partnership Trust and […]
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EMIS becomes first GP supplier to commit to CUI
Primary care systems supplier EMIS is to become the first major clinical software vendor to the health service to incorporate elements of the new NHS Common User Interface (CUI), developed by Microsoft on behalf of Connecting for Health, into its software. EMIS revealed to EHI Primary Care last week that it will incorporate components of […]
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