Imperial integration
The UK’s first Academic Health Science Centre is generating a significant systems integration challenge for the merged institution’s IT professionals.
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Lorenzo delivery plans now stretch past 2010
E-Health Insider has learned that the latest plans for the delivery of Lorenzo software in the North of England are based on key elements of the software not being available for deployment into the NHS as an integrated solution until after 2010. Under the revised four-stage plan, codenamed Penfield, order communications tools would be delivered […]
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Yorkshire and Humber SHA plan TPP-based EPR
Yorkshire and Humber Strategic Health Authority has adopted a new IM&T strategy that explicitly plans for the possible non-delivery of Lorenzo.
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Mid-Staffs gets iCM after five year wait
Mid-Staffordshire General Hospitals NHS Trust has begun piloting iSoft’s iCM clinical management system on two wards, five years after they signed a ten-year deal with the supplier. The trust first signed a contract with iSoft in October 2002, just before the National Programme for IT began in earnest and have been sporadically working on implementing […]
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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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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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Concern over slow progress in acute sector
A board paper written for the largest NHS trust in England says that its region of the National Programme for IT does not have a roadmap for delivering an electronic care record. The report, submitted to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, by director of informatics, Brian Derry and his deputy, Alastair Cartwright, in October says: […]
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Great Ormond Street gets single sign on
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is set to use a single sign on system that will not only cut the number of passwords clinicians need to access patient information, but also give them a converged view of data from different applications. The system will be deployed initially at the hospital to enable access to a […]
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NHS IT project aims for 120 major installs by April
Connecting for Health has published details of the main systems deployed by its three local service providers since June, outlining what has been delivered against what had been promised and plans for the next six months. As E-Health Insider exclusively revealed on Monday only four big and complex acute hospital PAS implementations had been delivered […]
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Accenture winds down acute hospital trust work
Accenture, the local service provider for the NHS IT programme in the North-east and East of England, is winding down its implementation team working on putting new patient administration system into NHS hospitals. E-Health Insider has been told that the acute implementation team was almost completely disbanded at the beginning of July, with a number […]
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