iSoft begins EPR roll-out at Derby
iSoft has announced that the initial roll-out of its iCM electronic patient record (EPR) system at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is nearing completion on the trust’s surgical and urology departments. Following this initial pilot of the order communications component of iCM – enabling clinicians to electronically order and receive test results – is now being rolled […]
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Ascribe buys into the PAS market
Ascribe, the healthcare IT group, today announced its entry into the patient administration system market with the acquisition of Barwick Systems in a £2m cash deal. Barwick Systems provides software to 13 hospitals around the UK, many of which also use Ascribe’s pharmacy or accident & emergency systems. Ascribe said: “This acquisition enables Ascribe to […]
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CfH approaches 2,000th deployment
Connecting for Health’s (CfH) latest deployment figures indicate that almost 2,000 systems had been deployed by the programme as of the beginning of September. The figure represents an increase of over 800 deployments since the beginning of August, reaching a grand total of 1,864. However, a closer reading of the figures reveals that almost all […]
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Over 1,000 new NHS IT systems deployed
Connecting for Health (CfH), the Department of Health’s IT agency, has said that just over 1,000 system deployments had been made in the NHS in England by the beginning of August. The headline figure appears, however, to be bolstered by the application of a very broad definition of deployment — including web-based applications and taking over the hosting of […]
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Delivery delays mount across the national programme
NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) has confirmed that there are delays in implementing the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) in four of the five regions in England, with the biggest slippages occurring in delivering new integrated clinical systems to acute hospitals. As previously reported the delivery of new hospital systems in London and the South […]
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National Programme sets strategy for non-LSP suppliers
The majority of current NHS clinical systems in England will be replaced in the next four years, according to new guidance for existing suppliers published today by the National Programme for IT. A small number of departmental systems number will be integrated into two portfolios built around the two dominant solutions – iSOFT’s Lorenzo and […]
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Survival tips for SMEs post NPfIT awards
There is still a market for small and medium players in healthcare IT but the name of the game is process and cultural change, not trying to sell technology and systems. That was the message for delegates at a conference for SMEs trying to get to grips with the new healthcare ICT market in England […]
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NPfIT urged to show confidence in NHS staff
A call for leaders of the National Programme for IT to demonstrate confidence in the capabilities and professionalism of NHS staff came at E-Health Insider’s conference in London last week. Martin Bell, director of IM&T for North Bristol NHS Trust said:“The national programme is information poor, and it needs to share and let go; it […]
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Blackberd Announces Long-list of Suppliers
Blackberd, the collaborative procurement of electronic record systems by 12 trusts in Birmingham and the Black Country has announced the long-list of seven Prime Service Providers (PSPs) for the £250m project. The Blackberd collaboration is seen as a key project to demonstrate how many local NHS organisations can collaborate on core IT developments central to […]
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Oxford Clinical Intranet Links Local NHS
The potential of networked local NHS communities is being demonstrated in Oxfordshire by the Oxford Clinical Intranet, which uses easy-to-use Internet technology to make test results electronically available to GPs. Where in the past getting test results depended on doctors making time-consuming phone calls or awaiting paper results by mail, the new system — developed […]
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