Orion’s Colin Henderson appointed UK health boss for DXC
Colin Henderson, former boss of Orion Health UK, has been confirmed as DXC’s new general manager for the company’s Healthcare and Life Sciences.
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Mid Essex goes live with Lorenzo EPR across organisation
Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust has gone live with DXC’s Lorenzo EPR with the go-live having gone “as well as can reasonably be expected”.
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Derby Teaching worries for its legacy systems with CSC’s redundancies
Derby Teaching has voiced its concerns that CSC’s redundancies will affect support for the trust’s legacy IT clinical systems.
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Lorenzo failure leaves nearly 15,000 Sheffield patients without letters
Nearly 15,000 patient records in a major northern teaching trust were affected by a technical mishap in its patient administration system (PAS).
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CSC redundancies labelled “knee-jerk reaction” in parliament
Mass redundancies by a huge NHS software supplier have been labelled a “knee-jerk reaction” by MPs, with concerns about the impact on health IT services.
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North Bristol picks CCube Solutions for “paper-lite” strategy
North Bristol NHS Trust has picked CCube Solutions’ electronic document management system to replace a warehouse of 1.2 million records.
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Lorenzo problems linked to year-long delay for Sheffield patients
A glitch in Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts Lorenzo PAS meant ten patients were not seen for over a year.
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Morecambe Bay plans Lorenzo revamp despite lack of clinician buy in
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is pursuing a Lorenzo development plan despite “significant” problems with the system.
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Health IT supplier CSC confirms redundancies in UK
Health software supplier CSC says between 10% and 20% of UK health jobs will be cut after Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services merger.
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Healthcare IT industry news in brief
This wee’s round up focuses on supplier news from EHI Live 2016, where Philips Healthcare launched a new home-based telecare product, and Fujifilm unveiled a new PACS.
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