Choice? What choice?
Over a year since the announcement of GP system choice, many practices still only have one package to choose from. Fiona Barr investigates.
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Implementation schedule slips in South
The introduction of the NHS Care Records Service in the South of England is set to be delayed following a revamp of the software to introduce new functionality and to address issues identified in the "white knuckle" initial implementation at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. E-Health insider has learned from well placed sources that the next […]
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Cerner confident of delivery in the South
Leading NHS clinical software supplier Cerner Corporation announced last week that it was on track to deliver in the Southern region of the NHS having had a successful go live within four months of signing a contract with Fujitsu. During the course of 2006 Cerner predicted that revenues from the Fujitsu Alliance local service provider […]
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Cerner and Fujitsu deliver first South implementation
Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust has become the first hospital in the South of England to go live with an electronic patient records system from Cerner, implemented by Fujitsu, under the NHS National Programme for IT. The initial implementation comes almost two years after Fujitsu was first awarded an £896 million local service provider (LSP) […]
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London trust goes live with spine-connected PAS
Queen Mary’s Hospital, south-east London, has become the first hospital trust in London to go live with a ‘strategic’ patient administration system (PAS) connected to the national NHS spine. The implementation marks a genuine milestone for Queen Mary’s Sidcup NHS Trust, the NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT); BT, NPfIT’s prime contractor for London; and […]
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GE to buy IDX for £681 million
General Electric Co.’s healthcare unit is to buy US health IT software supplier IDX Systems Corp. in a deal worth $1.2 billion (£681 million). GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, and IDX Systems Corporation announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement for GE to acquire IDX. The deal is […]
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Fujitsu signs with Cerner for South
Fujitsu Services has officially awarded a contract to Cerner Ltd in order to provide its Millennium clinical software to NHS organisations across the South of England under the NHS National Programme for IT. The contract, signed on Friday, 2 September, covers using Cerner’s Millennium software for the NHS Care Records Service in the Southern Cluster. […]
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CfH business plan indicates delivery delay
NHS Connecting for Health has issued its first annual business plan listing the agency’s achievements and setting out a programme of work that remains heavy on infrastructure and light on the rich clinical functionality the service is looking for to help transform services. The plan is published almost three years after the establishment of the […]
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‘Passionate’ GPs sought to inform Lorenzo development
Dr Gillian Braunold, one of the clinical leads for the NHS National Programme for IT has told EHI Primary Care that new arrangements will shortly be announced on how GPs can become involved in informing the overseas development of new clinical systems. A team of 10-15 GPs is currently being recruited. The GP clinical lead […]
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Crossed wires
Despite a bumpy start, the first booking made with IBS over Choose and Book in Wandsworth was a success, EHI Primary Care reports.
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