Buckinghamshire goes live with Cerner
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has become the third NHS trust in the South of England to begin to use clinical software from Cerner under the £12.4bn National Programme for IT. The Amersham and Wycombe Hospitals, Chalfont & Gerrards Cross Hospital and Marlow Cottage Hospital all went live at eight yesterday morning, after a day of […]
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NPfIT systems failing repeatedly
More than 110 major incident failures have been reported by hospitals and GPs over the past four months relating to systems provided by the NHS National Programme for IT. The problems, which have affected dozens of hospitals across England, were serious enough to be logged by NHS managers as ‘major incidents’. The issues were revealed by an […]
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Implementation dates for hospitals continue to slip
An investigation by E-Health Insider has found that two-thirds of the 22 NHS acute trusts that were meant to be receiving a replacement patient administration system by the end of October say they will not hit the target. In late June NHS Connecting for Health and its local service providers told Richard Bacon MP, a […]
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Cerner switches on at St James, Dublin
A new Cerner system at St. James Hospital, Dublin, the Republic of Ireland’s largest hospital, combines data, imaging, orders and results and establishes the foundation for a full electronic patient record. Cerner says patient care will benefit from the successful switch-on of what it describes as a landmark system that unites diverse and complex computer […]
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Weston goes live with Cerner
Weston Area Health NHS Trust has become to the second NHS trust in the South of England to begin to use clinical software from Cerner under the £12.4bn National Programme for IT. The trust confirmed to E-Health Insider that it had introduced the “initial stage” of the new software system over the last weekend in […]
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INPS Vision 4 to be London’s core GP solution
INPS’s Vision 4 is to be the core primary care solution offered to practices in London. The decision to opt for INPS (formerly In Practice Systems) as the preferred supplier in the capital is outlined in two letters to primary care trust chief executives from BT and London NHS chief executive David Nicholson yesterday. Patrick […]
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NHS officially told of London Cerner switch
NHS trusts across the capital today received official confirmation that BT is to replace GE Healthcare – previously IDX Systems – for Cerner as its supplier of electronic patient record software in London. As first reported by E-Health Insider on 13 June, BT will replace IDX, its current clinical software supplier, with Cerner for secondary care. […]
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London supplier switch looks closer
A number of well-placed sources told E-Health Insider this week that GE Healthcare had entered into a 90-day consultation with its IDX staff in the UK on Monday (24 July). Ninety days is the minimum consultation period between employers and employees if 100 or more employees may be dismissed as redundant at one establishment within a […]
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iSoft’s financial troubles mount
Troubled UK health IT software firm iSoft was plunged into further financial crisis on Friday after it announced it had again delayed publication of its full year results because it had been unable to conclude negotiations with its banks. The indications are that iSoft has been unable to complete renegotiation with its banks while its […]
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London Cerner switch announcement imminent
NHS acute trusts in the capital will next week receive letters from BT notifying them that it has terminated its contract with GE Healthcare and instead awarded a contract to Cerner to supply its Millennium clinical software to hospitals. The imminent switch to Cerner, first reported by E-Health insider on 13 June, is expected to […]
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