Map of Medicine sold to Hearst Corporation
Map of Medicine, the provider of web-based patient pathways tool developed from an NHS-funded research project and widely installed across the health service, has been bought from Informa by the Hearst Corporation for an undisclosed sum. Map of Medicine offers clinical information simply displayed online as 392 graphic patient pathways. It has been adopted as […]
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Stoke Mandeville switches on Millennium
Stoke Mandeville hospital has become the latest hospital site to go-live with the Cerner Millennium patient administration and clinical software under the £12.4bn NHS IT programme. The software supplied by Cerner was implemented by Fujitsu, the local service provider for the South of England. The trust has gone live with the release 0 version of the […]
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Bradshaw promises Lorenzo and Millennium by summer
Health minister Ben Bradshaw has said despite ongoing delays new Lorenzo and Millennium software will be delivered to NHS sites this summer. Replying to a parliamentary question the minister also confirmed last week that development work on Cerner Millennium for the South of England had ceased while the NHS remains in a deadlocked contract dispute […]
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CfH director says Lorenzo will arrive in summer
Richard Jeavons is confident the next generation Lorenzo software from iSoft will be ready for delivery to the first NHS sites within the ‘period’ of the summer.
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Millennium remains a ‘challenge’ at Worthing
The chief executive of Worthing and Southlands NHS Trust has said in a letter to staff that the Cerner Millennium system installed six months ago by Fujitsu continues “to be a challenge across the trust”. In a letter posted on the trust’s intranet, Stephen Cass, told staff: “All staff – whether you use the system […]
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Southern contract reset deadline up
The deadline set for completing the contract reset in the South of England has expired without agreement being reached. At the beginning of the current reset process, July 31 2007, January was set as the deadline in a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between local service provider Fujitsu and the Southern Programme for IT (SPfIT). However, […]
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Fujitsu integrate JAC pharmacy at Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes NHS Foundation Trust has become the first trust to receive a JAC pharmacy system from local service provider Fujitsu, integrated with its Cerner Millennium patient administration system. The JAC system is now being offered as one of Fujitsu’s best of breed options until similar functionality becomes available within Millennium. The JAC system originally […]
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Taunton go-live with Cerner Millennium
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has become the eighth site in the South of England to go-live with the Cerner Millennium patient administration system under the National Programme for IT. The trust went live with Millennium Release 0, delivered by local service provider Fujitsu, on the weekend of 15-16 December. In a statement the […]
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A year in review: LSPs in 2007
EHI Editor Jon Hoeksma, provides a look back at 2007 from the perspective of the NHS IT programme’s local service providers: Fujitsu, CSC and BT.
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2007 in review
As the year draws to a close E-Health Insider casts an eye over the health IT developments that made the news in 2007.
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