CfH aims to install at 22 acute trusts by October
NHS Connecting for Health and its prime contractors have told a member of the Commons Public Accounts Committee that they will deliver at least 22 new patient administration system (PAS) replacements to NHS acute trusts by the end of October this year. The figure does not include any London trusts. To date the programme has […]
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BT said to be considering iSoft bid
BT was reported at the weekend to be drawing up plans to bid for iSoft, the troubled health software company at the centre of the NHS Connecting for Health IT programme. The Sunday Times yesterday reported that BT, which is the largest single contractor in the £12.4bn NHS IT programme, was weighing a possible bid […]
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Hewitt urged to block software switch in London
Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, has been asked to block the possible move by BT to replace its software supplier for electronic patient records in London as part of the NHS National programme for IT (NPfIT). Richard Bacon, MP, a senior member of the House of Commons Public accounts committee (PAC), last night wrote to […]
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Cerner predicted to replace GE in London
An analyst report from the US has said that there is a high probability that clinical software firm Cerner will replace GE Healthcare as main the supplier of clinical systems to the NHS in London. If a change does occur it is likely to initially result in further delivery delays to modernising NHS IT systems […]
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Fujitsu plans next four go-lives in South by August
The dates for further NHS sites to go live with new Cerner clinical systems from Fujitsu under the NHS National Programme for IT have slipped again, with further go-lives now not expected until July and August. Following the initial fraught implementation at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust a lot of attention has focused on when further […]
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Nuffield’s IT upgrade lengthened waiting times
Details of the problems caused by the implementation of a new computer system at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxfordshire, were yesterday reported to include increased waiting list times for patients. According to the Sunday Times, the implementation of the Cerner Millennium system by Fujitsu at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust in Oxford, a small specialist orthopaedic […]
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Victoria signs with Cerner
Australia’s state of Victoria has selected Cerner as its latest healthcare IT partner. The value of the deal was not disclosed. Under an agreement signed with the Victorian Department of Human Service’s Cerner will provide the company’s Millennium clinical IT solutions to public hospitals and clinics across Australia’s most populous state. In January iSoft was awarded […]
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Companies gear up for interoperability marathon
Two hundred and fifty representatives of seventy healthcare IT companies will gather in Barcelona next week for the 6th annual European “Connectathon” – a week-long event devoted to the quest for interoperability. As its name suggests, the meeting is a ‘connectivity marathon’ where companies will take advantage of the opportunity to test their products in what […]
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Granger: no renegotiation on Accenture deal
NHS IT director-general, Richard Granger, says there will be no renegotiation of Accenture’s contract covering the North-east and East regions of the NHS. Granger told the Financial Times that the only grounds for renegotiation would be if the other three local service providers – CSC, Fujitsu Alliance and the BT-led Capital Care Alliance – were also suffering […]
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Relations between Accenture and CfH chill
Relations between NHS Connecting for Health and Accenture one of its prime contractors appeared to have chilled considerably this week following the firm’s Tuesday announcement that it was making a further $450m provision against losses on its two NHS IT contracts due to growing delivery delays, partly caused by late delivery of software from its […]
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