Information Governance will be ongoing challenge
Connecting for Health have told the House of Commons Health Select Committee that addressing the information governance challenge for shared records and use of patient data in an electronic NHS would be an ongoing challenge for the coming decade, in the same way that getting clinical governance right had been the challenge of the previous decade. Quizzed about privacy […]
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NHS chief exec pledges to help resolve CRS issues
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust that they can count on his full support to help resolve the problems they encountered after going live in April with a Cerner Care Records System provided by Fujitsu. In April 79 members of staff from the trust signed a letter outlining their frustrations at the Millennium […]
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NHS chief exec pledges to help resolve CRS issues
NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Trust that they can count on his full support in resolving the problems they encountered in April after going live with the Millennium Care Records System provided by Fujitsu. In April 79 members of staff from the trust signed a letter outlining their frustrations […]
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Surrey and Sussex go live with Millennium
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust has become the latest trust in the Southern cluster to go-live with Cerner’s Millennium Release 0 patient administration system, delivered by local service provider Fujitsu. The trust went live with the system trust-wide on the evening of Friday 20 April, at the same time as local service provider Computer Sciences […]
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Additional systems catalogue plans ‘near completion’
Plans for a catalogue of ‘additional systems suppliers’ covering a wide range of specialist clinical systems are in the final stages of being drawn up by Connecting for Health (CfH), the agency responsible for delivering the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. E-Health Insider understands that the supplier catalogue plans being drawn up may cover […]
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Milton Keynes goes live with Cerner
Milton Keynes General Hospital has become the fifth NHS hospital trust in the South of England to go live with a Cerner patient administration system supplied by local service provider Fujitsu as part of the £12.4bn NHS National Programme for IT. In addition to the acute trust the system has gone live into community hospitals […]
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Software helps Bucks cope with rising support calls
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented a new support call service to meet increased demand following the deployment of its new Cerner Millennium patient administration system last September and a general increase in computer use. The software from Hornbill Systems’ Supportworks Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) provides an integrated platform for automating and managing request […]
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Millennium delays creating financial risks, trust warns
A report by Worthing and Southlands Hospital NHS Trust on delayed plans to deploy Cerner Millennium warns that current reporting difficulties with the system "could have an impact on all remaining Cluster R0 go-live dates". The trust board paper seen by EHI warns that should delays to the availability of a system that meets requirements […]
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Accenture completes handover to CSC
Management consultancy Accenture will today complete its hand over of two separate billion pound NHS IT contracts to Computer Sciences Corporation. Sources close Accenture suggest that the handover was completed at midnight Sunday, while a CSC spokesperson said that the arrangements would be completed by this evening. The change comes three years after Accenture won […]
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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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