£16.45m renewal contract for IB Solutions
A ten-year £16.45m managed service contract to host Oracle financials and procurement applications for a consortium of 56 NHS bodies in England has been awarded to IB Solutions, a sister company of iSoft. The contract is an extension of a current agreement, which has ended. The 56 NHS organisations served by IB Solutions form the […]
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PACS – worth the hype?
‘Your doctor will never look at you in the same way again’ – Joe Fernandez asks one radiologist at St Peter’s Hospital Chertsey what his experiences are digital x-rays have been.
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Data centre failure left practices without SystmOne
A fault at a BT-run data centre left GP practices using TPP’s SystmOne experiencing performance problems with their system for three hours last month. EHI Primary Care understands that the failure on September 18 affected all TPP’s SystmOne users from early morning until about 11am. The problem is the second time in just over a […]
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No ‘ex gratia payments’ for CfH boss
Ministers have said there are no plans to give outgoing Connecting for Health-boss Richard Granger a golden handshake, when he officially steps down as head of the DH IT agency. In response to a parliamentary question health minister Ben Bradshaw said "There are no plans to make any ex gratia payments to the Director General […]
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BT’s big mission
In an exclusive interview BT Health’s managing director Patrick O’Connell updates EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how BT is progressing on its three NPfIT contracts.
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Remote storage secures data despite floods
Many GP practices in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire have been able to keep electronic patient data safe from the recent severe floods in the region, thanks to local service provider Computer Science Corporation’s (CSC) remote data storage policy. Since Monday, torrential rain across northern England has resulted in severe floods, with towns remaining submerged in water. […]
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South Manchester switches on PAS from CSC
The University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust has announced that it has gone live across the organisation with a new patient administration system supplied by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). The acute hospital becomes the eleventh large hospital to switch on an iSoft iPM PAS system supplied by CSC as part of the NHS National […]
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CSC to pay £600,000 compensation to NHS
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has agreed to pay some £600,000 in compensation to the NHS for the disruption caused by a massive failure at its data centre hosting NHS systems. The company is leading NHS IT modernization in the North West and West Midlands region of England, running new software systems from a single data […]
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Fujitsu hits 100m PACS images
Fujitsu Services, the NHS’s IT prime contractor for the South of England, has today recorded the 100 millionth patient image stored in its data centre as part of the Connecting for Health, picture archiving and communications systems (PACS) programme. Two million images a week are being added to Fujitsu’s PACS data centre, with the programme […]
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NHS Scotland signs £300m deal with Atos Origin Alliance
A consortia lead by Atos Origin has been awarded a £300m contract to be NHS Scotland’s Information Management and Technology Support Services Partner for the next 11 years. The contract covers the supply, administration and management of both the national and some local IT services to NHS Boards across Scotland. The agreement will start from […]
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