Royal Free says Cerner ‘extremely challenging’
Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust has found the first deployment of the London cluster version of Cerner’s Millennium care records system demanding; with delays in some of its busiest clinics. Although still in the early days of what it describes as a fairly successful implementation, the trust says in a board paper that the new […]
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Strategy for greener government IT
Government departments and executive agencies are being asked to take steps to reduce the energy consumption of their IT systems and make them carbon neutral over their lifetimes. The plans have been unveiled in a strategy document, Greening Government ICT, which sets out short and longer-term targets for cutting carbon emissions. The Cabinet Office strategy […]
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Tories promise NHS information revolution
The Conservative Party has promised an “information revolution” in the NHS with a focus on health outcomes.
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Trafford gets Cameron’s vote
Trafford Healthcare NHS Trust tell EHI how their BT e-Health Insider award caught David Cameron’s eye.
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Medway pilots business intelligence from McKesson
Senior staff at Medway NHS Trust are piloting McKesson’s Horizon Business Insight solution in order to extract performance information at the click of a button. The system has been widely deployed across the US, and McKesson have been working with Medway to configure it to meet the needs of the English NHS. The system, known […]
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DH maintains commitment to choice
Health secretary Alan Johnson has pledged a commitment to choice, despite pulling the plug on a series of independent sector treatment initiatives. In a written ministerial statement, Johnson said: “We remain committed to choice, to empower patients and drive improvements in the quality of care. For choice to be truly effective, and for all providers […]
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EHI’s industry news roundup 12.10.07
E-Health Insider’s industry news round up for the week ending 12 October, featuring supplier news, product launches, awards and events, implementations and appointments. Implementations Mayday uses single sign on from Enline Staff at the Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust will be able to sign on to systems just the once to use any network applications, after […]
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ESR approaches one million NHS staff
The ninth wave of NHS organisations have gone live with the integrated HR and payroll system, the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR); as a result 476 organisations covering 949,470 NHS employees are now using the system. The £300m 15-year Department of Health project is being delivered by a consortium led by health IT specialist McKesson, […]
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Agfa targets EPR market
Adrian Stevens, MD of Agfa UK tells EHI’s Jon Hoeksma how the company is planning to tackle the UK hospital electronic patient record market.
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79 Milton Keynes staff say Millennium “not fit for purpose”
Seventy-nine clinicians and admin staff at Milton Keynes General Hospital have written an open letter to the management stating that the new Cerner Millennium system installed by Fujitsu in February is "not fit purpose". In their open letter, the staff describe the software as "awkward and clunky" and state: "In our opinion the system should […]
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