Discussions underway on 8Mb broadband for GPs
NHS Connecting for Health is in discussions with N3 BT about providing an 8Mb broadband service which could provide GP practices with faster broadband speeds. The DH’s central IT agency is also advising N3 customers not to order any upgrade because of concerns over performance issues “at this time.” EHI Primary Care understands that the […]
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2006 – a curate’s egg for Connecting for Health
E-Health Insider cuts through the statistics to offer a snapshot of progress on ongoing efforts to digitise the NHS in England. Whatever happened to the NHS Care Record Service? 2006 may well be seen as the year Connecting for Health (CfH) and its prime contractors failed to deliver on their promise of next generation integrated […]
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East Surrey goes live with new maternity system
East Surrey Hospital has gone live with the first implementation of a new maternity information system called Eclipse MIS. The system from Huntleigh Healthcare has been implemented over the past six months and required the migration of 25,000 patient records from the maternity unit’s old Protos system. The unit handles 4,000 deliveries a year and […]
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Concern over slow progress in acute sector
A board paper written for the largest NHS trust in England says that its region of the National Programme for IT does not have a roadmap for delivering an electronic care record. The report, submitted to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, by director of informatics, Brian Derry and his deputy, Alastair Cartwright, in October says: […]
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McKesson buys Per-Se
US health IT giant McKesson Corporation has announced an agreement to buy health administration transaction IT specialist Per-Se for £1bn ($1.8bn). San Francisco-based McKesson says that the acquisition of Per Se announced last week forms part of its ongoing strategy to strengthen its position as an industry leader providing clinical, financial and administrative systems to […]
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RIO becomes strategic solution for London
CSE-Servelec has announced to financial markets that it has completed contract negotiations with BT to provide its RiO system to NHS community, mental health trusts and child health trusts in London. BT is the prime contractor, or local service provider, responsible for upgrading health service IT systems in the capital as part of the £6.2bn […]
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Immunisation records ‘too poor to migrate’
Staff trying to migrate existing child immunisation records to new systems in London face a “complete mess”, according to a newspaper report. The Department of Health has acknowledged the problems reported in the Sun, saying: “We know there is a problem with collecting surveillance data for the London PCTs. Senior officials at the Department 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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Troubled child health system to be replaced
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) looks set to replace an interim child health information system deployed in London last year and has already halted plans to extend it to include a community module. It has also emerged in a leaked letter, seen by E-Health Insider Primary Care, that a review of the problematic system has revealed […]
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More problems with London child health software
The Health Protection Agency has strongly criticised the interim child health systems used by ten primary care trusts in London after a fall in immunisation rates of up to 19% by primary care trusts using the system. The HPA said eight out of ten PCTs using the Child Health Interim Application (CHIA) supplied by the […]
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