Shortlist announced for E-Health Innovation Awards
After an intense round of presentations and judging, the shortlist for the E-Health Innovation Awards 2005 has been agreed. Winners have been chosen among the finalists listed below, but their names will not be revealed until the Awards ceremony and dinner on 21 April 2005. Compered by GP, writer and broadcaster, Dr Phil Hammond, the […]
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UCLH goes live
UCLH is the first to go live with Carecast from IDX; what can other trusts learn from the experience? E-Health Insider speaks to chief executive Robert Naylor.
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End 2005 will see NPfIT making a difference for all
National Programme for IT’s (NPfIT) director-general, Richard Granger has predicted that by the end of next year there won’t be a ‘nook or cranny’ of the NHS in England that has not seen some work from the programme that will be making a difference to caring for patients. Speaking to a briefing ahead of the Clinical Information […]
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London to start implementation immediately
The NHS’s IT boss for London has told E-Health insider that implementation work is set to begin immediately, following today’s announcement of the award of a £996m, 10-year contract to BT to act as Local Service Provider (LSP) for the capital. Speaking to E-Health Insider immediately after the announcement of the contract this morning David […]
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Reid Announces £2.7 billion of NHS IT contracts
Health Secretary John Reid today announced the award of contracts, which he promised would lead to every NHS patient having their own individual electronic NHS Care Record by 2010. The pledge came on the day the Department of Health announced the award of three crucial contracts, worth a total of £2,715m, to deliver key components […]
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UCLH Signs £70m EPR Deal with IDX and Logica
University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, has announced a £70 million investment in an Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system, supplied by IDX Systems Corporation in partnership with LogicaCMG. IDX will deliver an integrated IT system called Lastword across the Trust’s eight hospitals. The system will enable UCLH to ensure that its brand new PFI-build hospital on […]
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Kwo Aims to Make London World’s Best Health System
Everyone needs a goal. David Kwo, the man responsible for delivering 21st century IT to the NHS in London, certainly has one. It’s nothing less that to make London “the leading metropolitan health system globally.” Interviewed by E-Health Insider as the selection process for the three shortlisted LSPs for London – consortia led by IBM, […]
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CHI Reports Emphasise Need to Align Strategy and Operations
Three new reports by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) provide a series of snapshots of how NHS trusts are tackling IM&T modernisation and harnessing information to support clinical governance. Common themes that emerge from the reports include: data quality problems, ensuring clinician involvement, aligning strategy and developments at the operational level, and implementation of […]
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