Cerner wins Wirral system replacement contract
US health systems specialists, Cerner Corporation, have been named as the preferred supplier to replace the ageing clinical IT system at Wirral Hospital NHS Trust. The contract win was widely predicted for Cerner at the trust which credited with much pioneering work on the use of IT in acute NHS care. The independent procurement outside […]
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Cerner and Fujitsu reach agreement on Southern Cluster
US health IT supplier, Cerner Corporation, and local service provider for England’s Southern NHS Cluster, Fujitsu, have agreed a memorandum of understanding for supplying clinical software in place of IDX Systems Corporation’s Carecast. Fujitsu and Connecting for Health, the agency in charge of the National Programme for IT, issued an announcement today saying: “We can […]
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Cerner wins key Middle East contract
Cerner has won a key Middle East contract after being selected as health IT provider for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates. After a competitive procurement the General Authority for Health Services for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi selected Cerner as its health information technology provider, to deliver the objective of […]
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Reaction to IDX replacement
NHS IT leaders and industry experts have given a mixed reaction to the news that IDX is to be replaced as the clinical software provider for the South of England, with a widespread expectation that the change will lead to further delays in delivering new systems. The prospects of improving on the current delivery schedule, […]
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Reboot for South
E-Health Insider Editor Jon Hoeksma examines the significance of the decision to replace IDX as the clinical systems provider for the NHS in the South of England.
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Cerner in line for south contract
In the south of England plans have been drawn up since at least March on the basis that there would be a major change occurring in the supplier line-up for NHS National Programme for IT. These rumours were confirmed today when IDX issued a release to the US market announcing that it had reached an […]
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Interoperability centre stage in Dallas
Interoperability was the operative word among the nearly 22,000 health IT professionals at the 2005 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society conference here last week, Neil Versel reports from Dallas. "Interoperability is the key to achieving the ultimate goal," which is a full electronic health record, explained Dr Carolyn Clancy, director of the US government’s Agency […]
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Cerner to buy private physician system supplier
Kansas-based Cerner Corp. has today announced that it has signed an agreement to buy the Medical Division of VitalWorks Inc, a leader in the US private physician office information technology market. The $100m deal will further expand Cerner’s presence in the physician practice market, a market expected to rapidly grow as the US federal government […]
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Cerner’s Millennium named best EPR system
Cerner Millenium has been awarded the top prize at the Toward an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Their Millennium architecture won top prize in the Electronic Health Record Systems for Hospitals prize. The same architecture underpins their e-booking contract and had been a major part of all their unsuccessful LSP bids. In […]
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Cerner to help deliver paediatric research through IT
Children’s Hospital Boston, one of the largest and most prestigious paediatric medical centres in the United States, and a part of Harvard Medical School, has partnered with Cerner Corp to improve paediatric care and research through the use of advanced healthcare information technology solutions. As part of the partnership with Cerner, Children’s will develop a […]
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