Royal Devon and Exeter selects System C
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has chosen System C as its supplier for order communications and electronic prescribing, as key elements of a new electronic patient record system.
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Devon and Exeter looks for tactical EPR
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust has gone out to tender for the “first elements of a tactical electronic patient record” with the vision of implementing a full EPR by 2014.
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‘Four more years’ for McKesson
The Department of Health is negotiating four year support deals for the 21 NHS hospital trusts running McKesson patient administration systems.
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iSoft cuts support and delivery staff
Australian software company iSoft has made 36 people redundant from its UK customer support and delivery department as a result of the restructuring project it launched in the summer. Despite the redundancies, 43 new roles have been created across departments including sales, operations, product management, integration services, commercial and professional services. However, only five people […]
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EMIS rebuts coroner’s criticism
EMIS has rebutted criticism from a coroner following the death of a female prisoner in Holloway Prison in London. City of London coroner Paul Matthews criticised the fact that it is possible to add information retrospectively into the EMIS system, after an inquest into the death of 34 year old Annemarie Cox, who hanged herself. […]
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LSPs paid a quarter of contract price
The local service providers of the National Programme for IT in the NHS have been paid £1.1 billion, less than a quarter of the projected amounts for their projects.
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Blackpool: ‘All systems go for Alert’
The board of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has approved the proposal for Alert Life Sciences to become the supplier of the trust’s electronic patient record system. Philip Graham, head of IM&T, told E-Health Insider that the case for Vision – the name given to the project by trust staff – had […]
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Cerner completes first Spanish roll-out
US healthcare IT giant Cerner has completed the first implementation of Cerner Millennium in Spain. Hospital de Denia Marina Salud, on the East coast of Spain, went live with the electronic medical record across the whole hospital and some associated primary care clinics earlier this month, less than 18 months after selecting the system. It has implemented […]
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Lorenzo R1.9 to debut at EHI event
ISoft will be publicly showcasing the latest version of Lorenzo at E-Health Insider Live ’09, alongside its Viaduct integration engine and new branding.
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