Microsoft gets serious about health
Dr Bill Crounse, MD, Microsoft’s senior worldwide director of health, tells E-Health Insider’s Jon Hoeksma, that health is Microsoft’s fastest growing specialist group.
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Granger era ends as DG leaves CfH
Richard Granger has left NHS Connecting for Health, the NHS IT agency responsible for the £12.4bn NHS IT programme, he has led for the past five years.
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Lorenzo plan unlikely before year end
Alternative delivery plans – codenamed Penfield – developed by Computer Sciences Corporation for delivery of the next generation Lorenzo clinical software for three-fifths of the English NHS are unlikely to be completed before the end of the year. One of the NHS chief information officers taking a lead on the Lorenzo Penfield plan has told […]
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dbMotion extend interoperability in Franche-Comté
The French region of Franche-Comté is to receive an expanded interoperability platform based on their Personal Medical File (DMP-fc) system, supplied by Israeli-firm dbMotion. dbMotion’s interoperability platform is a complete package that creates an integrated Virtual Patient Record, based on information contained in existing healthcare IT systems such as: electronic medical records, laboratory and imaging […]
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National Library for Health links up Athens sign on
The NHS National Library for Health has boosted its user friendliness by incorporating a modified version of the access and identity management service, Athens, into the library’s website. As part of the new agreement, over 257,000 NHS staff and placement students in England will be able to access full-text journals, key clinical databases and eBooks […]
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Worthing to switch on Millennium PAS
Worthing Hospital NHS Trust will this weekend become the latest hospital in the South of England to go live with a new patient administration system from Fujitsu. The trust will switch over to the Cerner Millennium PAS software, known as Cerner release zero, under the multi-billion NHS IT programme. Worthing will become the seventh NHS […]
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CSC re-negotiating delivery of Lorenzo
The contract for delivery of the core strategic clinical software meant to be delivered by the NHS IT programme in three-fifths of the English NHS is being re-negotiated, with talks due to run until the end of 2007.
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Contract ‘reset’ underway in the South
The new NHS programme director for the NHS IT programme in the South of England says she is not happy with the core patient administration system delivered so far, and confirmed that a far-reaching ‘reset’ of contracts has been launched. Sarah Elmendorf took up the new post of programme director at the Southern Programme for […]
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Spanish hospital to pilot medical tablet PC
Intel, Oracle and Orion Health have announced the launch of a pilot for a new mobile computing device, designed from the ground up for use by clinicians in hospital and community environments. The Motion C5 Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA) is lightweight rugged tablet PC with a built in carrying handle designed to withstand the knocks […]
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Granger says he is ‘ashamed’ of some systems provided
The departing head of the NHS IT programme Richard Granger has said he is ashamed of the quality of some of the systems put into the NHS by Connecting for Health suppliers, singling Cerner out for criticism. Going further than he before in acknowledging the extent of failings of systems provided to some parts of […]
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