Fujitsu signs with Cerner for South
Fujitsu Services has officially awarded a contract to Cerner Ltd in order to provide its Millennium clinical software to NHS organisations across the South of England under the NHS National Programme for IT. The contract, signed on Friday, 2 September, covers using Cerner’s Millennium software for the NHS Care Records Service in the Southern Cluster. […]
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‘Passionate’ GPs sought to inform Lorenzo development
Dr Gillian Braunold, one of the clinical leads for the NHS National Programme for IT has told EHI Primary Care that new arrangements will shortly be announced on how GPs can become involved in informing the overseas development of new clinical systems. A team of 10-15 GPs is currently being recruited. The GP clinical lead […]
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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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CfH to fund NHS clinician trips to India and USA
NHS Connecting for Health is urgently looking for experienced NHS clinicians, interested in ensuring that NHS IT systems are fit for purpose, to be flown out and work on assignment with clinical software developers in India or the United States. Both of the brand new clinical systems that Connecting for Health has contracted to be […]
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Cerner and Fujitsu reach agreement on Southern Cluster
US health IT supplier, Cerner Corporation, and local service provider for England’s Southern NHS Cluster, Fujitsu, have agreed a memorandum of understanding for supplying clinical software in place of IDX Systems Corporation’s Carecast. Fujitsu and Connecting for Health, the agency in charge of the National Programme for IT, issued an announcement today saying: “We can […]
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PACS tomorrow
Daloni Carlisle reports for E-Health Insider on why PACS delivery is slower than expected, and reveals that affordability is mostly to blame.
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Reaction to IDX replacement
NHS IT leaders and industry experts have given a mixed reaction to the news that IDX is to be replaced as the clinical software provider for the South of England, with a widespread expectation that the change will lead to further delays in delivering new systems. The prospects of improving on the current delivery schedule, […]
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Reboot for South
E-Health Insider Editor Jon Hoeksma examines the significance of the decision to replace IDX as the clinical systems provider for the NHS in the South of England.
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Fujitsu drops IDX for south of England
IDX Systems Corporation has today announced that it has agreed with Fujitsu Services to terminate their agreement under which IDX and British Telecom were to provide a ‘common solution’ clinical information system for the south of England under the NHS National Programme for IT. It is expected that IDX will, subject to contract agreement with […]
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Cerner in line for south contract
In the south of England plans have been drawn up since at least March on the basis that there would be a major change occurring in the supplier line-up for NHS National Programme for IT. These rumours were confirmed today when IDX issued a release to the US market announcing that it had reached an […]
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