QMS to ditch IDX for Cerner in 2007
Queen Mary Sidcup (QMS), the only London trust to have received a new hospital IT system under the NHS computerisation scheme, will now have to replace it less than a year after the system became fully operational. QMS first switched on IDX’s Carecast system after a fraught implementation in November 2005, but it has taken until […]
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McKesson buys Per-Se
US health IT giant McKesson Corporation has announced an agreement to buy health administration transaction IT specialist Per-Se for £1bn ($1.8bn). San Francisco-based McKesson says that the acquisition of Per Se announced last week forms part of its ongoing strategy to strengthen its position as an industry leader providing clinical, financial and administrative systems to […]
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Cerner confident of signing BT deal ‘soon’
Cerner says that it remains confident of signing a deal with BT “soon” to deliver its software to NHS trusts across London, despite problems in the south. Mounting delays in delivering the initial Release Zero (R0) version of Millennium in the South of England have not dampened Cerner’s optimism about its future prospects for delivering […]
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Granger says he wants ‘catalogue’ of additional suppliers
The boss of the NHS IT agency Connecting for Health (CfH) has said that he intends to create a catalogue of suppliers able to provide additional capacity and systems to help deliver the late-running £6bn National Programme for NHS IT. The intention appears to be to increase capacity and plug gaps in key specialist systems, […]
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EuroKing launches Miracle in Scotland
Maternity information systems suppliers EuroKing has partnered with bms (Scotland) Ltd in a bid to get the company’s Miracle system used more widely in Scotland following a recent NHS announcement changing the way maternity scans take place in the country. Scotland’s NHS Quality Improvement Board has recommended that by 2007 every pregnant woman in Scotland should be offered […]
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NHS officially told of London Cerner switch
NHS trusts across the capital today received official confirmation that BT is to replace GE Healthcare – previously IDX Systems – for Cerner as its supplier of electronic patient record software in London. As first reported by E-Health Insider on 13 June, BT will replace IDX, its current clinical software supplier, with Cerner for secondary care. […]
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London supplier switch looks closer
A number of well-placed sources told E-Health Insider this week that GE Healthcare had entered into a 90-day consultation with its IDX staff in the UK on Monday (24 July). Ninety days is the minimum consultation period between employers and employees if 100 or more employees may be dismissed as redundant at one establishment within a […]
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iSoft’s financial troubles mount
Troubled UK health IT software firm iSoft was plunged into further financial crisis on Friday after it announced it had again delayed publication of its full year results because it had been unable to conclude negotiations with its banks. The indications are that iSoft has been unable to complete renegotiation with its banks while its […]
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London Cerner switch announcement imminent
NHS acute trusts in the capital will next week receive letters from BT notifying them that it has terminated its contract with GE Healthcare and instead awarded a contract to Cerner to supply its Millennium clinical software to hospitals. The imminent switch to Cerner, first reported by E-Health insider on 13 June, is expected to […]
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Cerner predicted to replace GE in London
An analyst report from the US has said that there is a high probability that clinical software firm Cerner will replace GE Healthcare as main the supplier of clinical systems to the NHS in London. If a change does occur it is likely to initially result in further delivery delays to modernising NHS IT systems […]
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