QMS to ditch IDX for Cerner in 2007
Queen Mary Sidcup (QMS), the only London trust to have received a new hospital IT system under the NHS computerisation scheme, will now have to replace it less than a year after the system became fully operational. QMS first switched on IDX’s Carecast system after a fraught implementation in November 2005, but it has taken until […]
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RIO becomes strategic solution for London
CSE-Servelec has announced to financial markets that it has completed contract negotiations with BT to provide its RiO system to NHS community, mental health trusts and child health trusts in London. BT is the prime contractor, or local service provider, responsible for upgrading health service IT systems in the capital as part of the £6.2bn […]
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BT completes switch to Cerner
BT, the local service provider for London under the NHS IT investment programme, has confirmed that it has completed the switch from GE Healthcare to Cerner as its main clinical software sub-contractor. The company said in its its half year results today: "BT continues to make good progress on its NHS National Programme for Information Technology […]
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LSPs fail ‘acid test’ on PAS deployments
Delivery of the patient administration systems due to form the foundation for future electronic patient records in NHS hospitals has stalled with only a fifth of the systems promised in June actually installed. In June NHS Connecting for Health said that 22 acute NHS trusts would get new PAS systems by the end of October. […]
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Cerner confident of signing BT deal ‘soon’
Cerner says that it remains confident of signing a deal with BT “soon” to deliver its software to NHS trusts across London, despite problems in the south. Mounting delays in delivering the initial Release Zero (R0) version of Millennium in the South of England have not dampened Cerner’s optimism about its future prospects for delivering […]
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Milton Keynes implements WinPath pathology system
Milton Keynes General NHS Trust has announced that it has gone live with the WinPath pathology system from software developers CliniSys. The trust’s previous pathology system, OPUS from Supporta plc, needed replacing urgently because Milton Keynes was the only user remaining and there were concerns over ongoing support, development, and hardware issues. The new WinPath system went first live […]
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Fujitsu’s Cerner delays mount in the South
Three more trusts have had to postpone Fujitsu implementations of Cerner Millennium in the South at short notice, as go-live dates for hospital systems slip further across the region. The delays mean that a key Connecting for Health delivery pledge will be missed. The three latest sites to announce delays include Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust, […]
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Nuffield blames ‘weak’ HC rating on computer problems
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has blamed its relatively poor performance rating from the Healthcare Commission on the failures of a new computer system. The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has been given a ‘good’ rating for the use of resources element and a ‘weak’ rating for the quality of services element of the Healthcare Commissions annual […]
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Milton Keynes’ Cerner implementation postponed
Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust has had to postpone its implementation of a new Cerner Millennium patient administration system at just three days notice, citing the need for more time to fix software glitches. The trust does not yet have a new go-live date. The decision follows a similar last minute postponement of the project […]
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Granger says he wants ‘catalogue’ of additional suppliers
The boss of the NHS IT agency Connecting for Health (CfH) has said that he intends to create a catalogue of suppliers able to provide additional capacity and systems to help deliver the late-running £6bn National Programme for NHS IT. The intention appears to be to increase capacity and plug gaps in key specialist systems, […]
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