Hounslow PCT launches remote access
Network integration specialist Scalable Networks has teamed up with Hounslow Primary Care Trust to set up a new home and roaming access service for 700 staff. The system has been set up to prepare the trust for its implementation of CSE-Servelec’s web-based Electronic Care Record system, RiO, at the end of next month. RiO will allow […]
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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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Pay-as-you-examine PACS deal for Finland
Kodak has agreed a three year pay-as-you-examine partnership for picture archiving and web-viewing services in the South-west Finland Hospital District for the four hospitals and 24 municipalities in the Satakunta region. Eastman Kodak Health Group will deploy its Carestream PACS and information management solutions to the 28 sites, allowing them to centrally archive, view and […]
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NHS IT systems in NWWM slow to recover
Dozens of NHS trusts across the North West and West Midlands remained without access to their main patient management software today, after a Sunday morning failure at a data centre run by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) hosting NHS systems. Some trusts face being without systems until Thursday. The IT disaster, believed to be the most […]
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CSC failure leaves 80 trusts without IT systems
A technical failure at an NHS Connecting for Health data centre on Sunday has left 80 NHS trusts across the North West and West Midlands, including eight acute trusts, without access to patient data on their clinical and administration computer systems. E-Health Insider understands that trusts across NWWM were left without access to key IT systems after yesterday’s […]
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Birmingham Children’s loses sight of appointments
Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Trust has become the latest trust to experience problems after Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) installed new remotely-hosted patient administration system (PAS) software supplied by iSoft. Following a software upgrade to its new PAS system, outpatient appointment data for 800 children became unviewable to staff using the day clinic module of the […]
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BUPA Hospitals select Kodak for RIS/PACS
BUPA Hospitals has signed an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company’s Health Group to provide the private hospital chain with an integrated radiology information system (RIS) and picture archiving and communication system (PACS) across all of BUPA’s 26 UK hospitals. The move will support the transition to a complete digital operation across the BUPA Hospitals network. […]
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Paper working after disaster ‘not acceptable’
A senior executive for a health service local service provider (LSP) this week expressed the view that leaving large NHS trusts working on paper for a week after a disaster was ‘not acceptable’. Sunil Patel, development director of Accenture, LSP for the North east and Eastern regions of England, was referring to the disaster at […]
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NHS suffering from broken spine
NHS sites experienced acute spine problems in the week before Christmas, resulting in key systems being unavailable to NHS staff, and other sites having their access suspended. E-Health Insider has learned that a number of systems connected to NHS Connecting for Health’s (CfH) data spine were last week left unable to look up patients’ demographic details on […]
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National Scottish NHS IT procurement begins
The National Health Service for Scotland has begun re-tendering exercise for end-to-end delivery of its principal IT services, in a procurement designed to meet the services’ evolving national and local business and clinical requirements. The contract notice includes provision for the future development of a national NHS Scotland Electronic Patient Record, and other future developments […]
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